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Originally Posted by goldendoodle
It is SUCH a big laborious job, and one seemingly never stops uncovering insidiously internalized warped garbage messages/beliefs (stored in one's brain since the age of like 10 years old) along the way. It's like whack-a-mole. And then ofc there's having to learn to stop self-objectifying (which also starts at a horrifyingly young age!!)etc eTc EtC!!!!!!!
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It starts from birth for girls! Before birth even, if you consider "gender reveal" parties. Before we're taught explicitly around puberty about how our young bodies are distracting to men and that the male gaze is a prize worth winning, we get the unspoken lessons, we pick up on the nuances of how Women are supposed to be through media and observation of the people in our worlds. It goes deep, and it all goes back to the church and the literal Patriarchy UGH.