9 hours ago, Mr.X said:

I love her but this is not ok... people point at Ariana or other celebrities that constantly look ill or not like themselves because they are adehering to beauty standards/demands from society, and how impactful on other non-celebrity women that is. They are right to do that.

This, unfortunately, just portrays a woman trying to look like she is not the age she is. And that is ******* sad, and consistently plays into the trope that older women are not worthy of being seen with even a slight wrinkle... a lot of celebrities do it of course (look at Nicole Kidman, that woman looks like she has a fake face most of the time) and there is currently the so-called 'Hollywood face' trend where so many women are getting fake surgeries/bottocks whatever the **** to look a specific type of younger.

But they just end up looking like a parody of themselves. They don't look good. They look like they are sad that they are not what they actually are. It is, sadly, another form of oppression by the patriarchy and it is so sad that so many fall into it... it is not just their fault of course - hell, most of these famous women even have "beauty brands" they built themselves to go with it - but they are willingly playing into it as well, and helping drive that oppression.

We should be supporting these women to be themselves, not doll-like versions of whatever they think they need to look like.

The beauty of all that you say is that she chooses how to get old, not others, not what is expected her to do. She is paving the way, again, for women in the industry, the oportunity to get older in their own terms....

She looks 68 which is fine

Edited September 3Sep 3 by Tate