i am mentally divergent

I need to talk about this for a minute because this is how fucked up the messages young women (and women) are getting from society.

This is my Yahoo front page (yes, I still use yahoo mail. I’ve had the address forever). The article is discussing a recent trend where young girls upload photos/videos of themselves, asking for comments from users. As the article says:

A troubling new trend making its way around YouTube has many people begging the question: “Are we obsessed with others’ opinions of us?” A search of the phrase “Am I Ugly” on YouTube yields dozens of videos of young girls asking the anonymous, and notoriously judgmental, YouTube community to judge how they look.

However, when looking at the page, there seems to be a disconnect between the message of the article and the related articles. Shrinking Your Pores, Top Braided Hairstyles, Global Beauty Secrets are linked right next to an article about young women caring too much about how others think they look. 

With this beauty standard set (small pores, braided hair, being beautiful everywhere) is it any wonder that these young woman are seeking validation that they are engaging in what is approved beauty in the United States? Why would you write an article seemingly condemning this practice to only ask your readers to read articles on how they can make other people find them attractive?

We have to stop doing to this our young girls (and women). We need to teach them that however they are, they are beautiful and that they should give exactly no fucks what someone else thinks.