Ashwinder Egg

This is a blog about a little bit of everything I like.

[kingjaffejoffer]

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Teens are worried about wrinkles. Here's how Gen Z is helping to fuel a beauty boom

While young 'skinvestors' are often in pursuit of self-care and overall well-being, experts are concerned about the premature demand for more invasive treatments.

this is so depressing.. we’re on a crash course of having injectables being marketed to 13 year olds under the guise of self care and empowerment. if instagram had existed when i was a fifteen year old with cystic acne i probably would have thrown myself off the roof.

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[kallisti55-archives]

I want off this ride

[joaniecash-deactivated20230309]

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

It’s not fine. None of this is fine. We are failing these girls.

[ms-hells-bells]

we have synthesised the female body so much that people aren’t aware that young girls get face lines because they make facial expressions, it’s nothing to do with aging. i’ve had a massive forehead line since like 10 because i raise my eyebrows a lot. but even if it was, imagine making female children terrified of not looking like children. women aren’t meant to exist looking like children. this just makes me so sad.

and this is why i firmly stand against ‘skin care’ as much as makeup. it’s just as harmful.

[antiporn-activist]

fucking yikes

[greenwire]

Spending your final years of childhood terrified that you will soon pass that best-by date that only women have stamped on them, rather than spending that time on grades, self improvement, or building your future; is not new. I was first worried about ageing in my late teens as well. But what is new is how prevalent these online communities popped up to sell these girls on fillers, transcription factors, and paralyzing toxins. When I was 18 I didn’t have a site full of kiddie diddlers and rape porn enthusiasts, sorry, I mean, reddit.com, trying to sell me on jade rollers and snail mucus.

This double standard isn’t new either. Fun fact: in the very first season of The Twilight Zone, there was an episode starring an over-the-hill actress reliving her best days in the past. She was played by an actor of 40. In the next episode, there’s a man nostalgic for his childhood, who is actually called “a young man” in the script, who was played by a 36 year old actor. That was in 1959, and things are still just as shitty. Jennifer Lawrence was playing a love interest to a middle aged man at 25, and then we see Donald Trump Jr get called a young man who is still learning how the world works at age 39.

[fucknopornblogs]

“There is no global epidemic of battered husbands or of mothers raping their children. Sorority girls don’t slip male students date rape drugs and gang-rape them at parties. Cheerleaders don’t wait until football players are too intoxicated to walk or speak, have sex with them, film the rape and share it with all their friends via social media. Boys are not pressured to send topless photos of themselves then blackmailed with the photos, then stalked and bullied and mocked until they kill themselves. There are not entire websites devoted to posting pornified imagery of ex-boyfriends in order to shame and humiliate them. There is no industry wherein women are coercing boys and men into prostitution, en masse, forcing them to have sex with strange women day in and day out. These are the facts. I know these things to be true because this reality is impossible to ignore if you pay any attention to media at all, because I am a woman and this is my life, and because I’m a feminist and I understand the devastating impact patriarchy has on women and girls everywhere. And that is why, as a feminist, I believe women.”

— (via nedstarkshonour)

[lookataleaf3000]

if there’s one most important thing that I wish I’d learned younger (and there’s actually a lot of things I wish I’d known younger) it’s that sexuality is NOT what you could theoretically endure. It’s also not a self harm fantasy. Desire is warm and affectionate.

[anti-porn-unicorn]

Porn addicts keep telling on themselves.

[anti-porn-unicorn]

Pornhub launches its own VPN

Because incognito browsers don’t offer enough protection.

If you still use pornhub, go to hell

[clayjokes]

The police pull my lifeless body from a lake but I’m wearing the funniest hat they’ve ever seen and they can’t stop laughing and keep dropping me back into the water

[veryfunnymemes]

[uueird]

bye af

[turnon]

the milk hate ends in 2017

[cactuseeds]

Milk is disgusting

[turnon]

okay but square up to me in a mickey d’s parking lot and we’ll see whose bones is breaking first

[remanence-of-love]

[discreetwithabellyring-deactiva]

I was shocked and appalled when I learned that jesters were actually well regarded and rich in a monarchy. I thought they were my allies 😡

[murphels]

#-ppl becoming disillusioned with celebrities behavior in covid lockdown

[broomsticksareoverrated]

Are you a common fool or an official fool?

[weaver-z]

In the modern age "official fools" are also known as "twitter verifieds"

[whitepeopletwitter]

[breadandflowers]

Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.

[dancingmuppet]

YES

[siralexandrosworld]

What you need to figure out is this : A woman’s worst enemy is not a man, but other women. A man will not give two cents about what you decide to wear or do with your life, but other women will judge and condemn everything you and tell it to your face (if you’re lucky) or behind your back. Other women will make your life a living hell. Men will inconvenience you from time, that is true, but it’s nothing compared to what other women will do to you if they don’t like you.

[shes-unforgettable]

Yeah, men don’t care about what you wear. That’s why they NEVER catcall and sexually harass young girls on the streets for their skirts being too short and they NEVER rate women’s appearances with their friends behind their backs. Women aren’t afraid of going out on the street at night alone because of the extremely high likeliness of being raped and murdered by a man, they’re afraid of Suzie telling her her lipstick is a bad shade. Yup, women are NEVER murdered by their own husbands and boyfriends for not doing exactly what they say, they should be worried about that vaguetweet from Jennifer. Ah, of course! It was definitely necessary for you, a man, to tell us women that the threat that men have posed to us for our whole lives means nothing because sometimes girls are mean. What a genius.

[antiporn-activist]

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The faces of child marriage

Tehani, 8, Yemen. “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him,” Tehani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was 6 and he was 25. The young wife posed for a portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their home in Hajjah.

Destaye, 11, and Addisu, 23, Ethiopia. Addisu and his new bride Destaye are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in the rural areas outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia. Community members said that because of his standing as a priest, Addisu’s bride had to be a virgin. This was the reason Destaye was given to him at such a young age.

Rajani, 5, India. Long after midnight, Rajani is roused from sleep and carried by her uncle to her wedding. Child marriage is illegal in India, so ceremonies are often held in the wee hours of the morning. It becomes a secret the whole village keeps, explained one farmer.

Bishal, 15, and Surita, 16, Nepal. Bishal accepts gifts from visitors as his new bride, Surita, sits bored at her new home. Here in Nepal, as in many countries, not only girls, but boys too are married young.

Faiz, 40, and Ghulam, 11, Afghanistan. Ghulam and Faiz sit for a portrait in her home before their wedding in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Department of State report “Human Rights Practices for 2011,” approximately 60 percent of girls were married younger than the legal age of 16. Once the girl’s father has agreed to the engagement, she is pulled out of school immediately.

Sarita, 15, India. Sarita is seen in tears before she is sent to her new home with her new groom. The previous day, she and her 8-year-old sister Maya were married to sibling brothers.

Leyualem is transported by mule to her new home on her wedding day. The men later said the cloth was placed over her head so she would not be able to find her way back home, should she want to escape the marriage.

Asia, 14, Yemen. Asia washes her newborn at home in Hajjah while her 2-year-old daughter plays. Asia is still bleeding and ill from childbirth, yet has no knowledge of how to care for herself or access to maternal health care.

Mejgon, 16, Afghanistan. Mejgon weeps in the arms of her case worker near fellow residents at an NGO shelter run by Afghan women in Herat, Afghanistan. Mejgon’s father sold her at the age of 11 to a 60-year-old man for two boxes of heroin.

Jamila, 15, Afghanistan. Kandahar policewoman Malalai Kakar arrests a man who repeatedly stabbed his wife, 15 and mother of two children, for disobeying him. When asked what would happen to the husband for this crime, “Nothing,” Kakar said. “Men are kings here.” Kakar was later killed by the Taliban.

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China, 18, Ethiopia. A young sex worker named China sits stunned after being beat up by a client. Many of the girls who run away from child marriages end up trafficked to brothels where they often face intense violence.

Bibi Aisha, 19, Afghanistan. In a practice known as “baad,” Bibi Aisha’s father promised her to a Taliban fighter when she was 6 years old as compensation for a killing that a member of her family had committed. She was married at 16 and subjected to constant abuse. At 18, she fled the abuse but was caught by police, jailed and then returned to her family. Her father-in-law, husband and three other family members took her into the mountains, cut off her nose and her ears, and left her to die. “I was a woman exchanged for someone else’s wrongdoing. [My new husband] was looking for an excuse to beat me.”

Maya and Kishore pose for a wedding photo in their new home.

Nujood, 12, Yemen. Nujood Ali, two years after her divorce from her husband, who was more than 20 years her senior. Nujood’s story sent shock waves around the country and caused parliament to consider a bill writing a minimum marriage age into law. The bill is still pending. “Don’t let your children get married. You’ll spoil their educations, and you’ll spoil their childhoods [if] you let them get married so young.”

[thevaginamonoblogs]

Talk to me about how women aren’t oppressed and I’ll kick you in the nuts and show you this.

[greenwire]

Bibi Aisha emigrated to the United States where she underwent several dozen reconstructive procedures and was adopted by an Afghan-American couple in Maryland. For whatever it’s worth, she is no longer living in the same conditions. I wish that could be said about all of the child brides in the world, but we know it cannot. 

These children were not sold as property to grown men because of how they identified. Their parents were not confused about which of their children to sell to terrorists and adult men. 

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With Rajani, I saw that she was married to a 10 year old boy. Leagues better than an adult man. And that she would live with her family until puberty. Definitely not the best outcome but certainly better that others in her situation.

With Nujood, according to Wikipedia, her father never gave her the money from the profits of her book. She got married again in 2014 which would put her at 15 or 16 and now has two children.

The photos and captions come from a series done by photographer Stephanie Sinclair. The series is called “Too Young to Wed”.

From the United Nation’s website:

Too Young To Wed portrays child marriage, a harmful practice that devastates the lives of millions of girls who are forced to marry each year. Child marriage is a human rights violation that is commonplace in dozens of countries, even where laws forbid the practice.

The exhibition was organized by VII Photo Agency and endorsed by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)

Learn more about child marriage at: tooyoungtowed.org

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When the titles of popular porn videos are the same as titles of articles describing vicious rapes/murders/kidnappings you know porn is irredeemably evil

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I should not have to see a link called “girl is kidnaped by a group of men and savagely tortured” and wonder if it’s porn or a crime article (it was porn)

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I’m gonna reblog this again even tho people are being asshats about it bc this is important and true and I will not be silent about it or apologize for speaking about this industrialized rape culture.