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A few things:

(1) If being young and attractive means a woman can get away with being narcissistic, abusive, entitled, and generally awful, that would be an issue with men, wouldn't it? Women aren't exactly giving other women passes on being bitches because they're sexy (possibly exception for some lesbians). My experience is that women are more likely to give another woman a pass on being kind of terrible if she *isn't* conventionally attractive (i.e. doesn't have "hot", "thin" etc "privilege.")

(2) My experience has been that women who are *naturally* beautiful tend to be, generally speaking, a little kinder and more easy-going than your average woman. This is partially because they tend to be healthy (natural beauty = markers of health), get more exercise (to quote Elle Woods, "Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy."), and, as an exceptionally pretty friend of mine once pointed out, "It's easier to be a nice person when you go through life with people smiling at you all the time."

(3) The kinds of ultra-woke Instagram and TikTok-addled mothers being discussed in this essay would also be more likely to feed their children more junk food in the name of being anti-"diet culture", and less likely to promote healthy activities that result in natural beauty. Their daughters might have youth on their side (at least for a while), but I'm willing to bet that, *on average*, their girls will be less attractive (for various reasons).

(4) Sometimes women who are actually quite sweet and smart and not particularly entitled are bitchy to certain men as a means of self-defence or because they don't want to risk the guy getting obsessed with them and think it's kinder to just establish a boundary and firmly reject them at the get-go. Some men get extremely weird and some pretty scary when an attractive woman is friendly to them.

(5) Multiple things can be true at once. It can be true that throughout history men (and in some countries, in the present) men have raped women with impunity, particularly through warfare and invasions. It can be true that women were treated as property in many cultures, and married off to older men they didn't like when they were teenagers. It can be true that the witch hunts of the Western Christian world (which, really, were not all that long ago) were one of the most horrifying and traumatizing acts committed by males of a culture against their own women, and so thoroughly destroyed women's power and ancestral knowledge (e.g. of plant medicines) that we're essentially still recovering from it. At the same time, it can be true that women, in regaining power through feminism, have at large succumbed to a consumerist, narcissistic, individualistic, elitist reactionary ideology that is causing significant damage, including encouraging them to abuse their own sons and to model their behaviour on the worst of men.

May 20, 2024
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