http://thegenderblenderblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/spend-your-summer-vacation-at-beauty-boot-camp/ feminism. it's just common sense. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thegenderblenderblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/spend-your-summer-vacation-at-beauty-boot-camp/#comment-992 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:26:28 +0000 http://thegenderblenderblog.wordpress.com/?p=2070#comment-992 As a psychologist, it is absolutely frustrating to learn that ‘camps’ like this exist. The messages in consumer culture position women as nothing more than cookie cutter dolls to be looked at by others. Such camps only serve to promote the belief that women are to be dissatisfied with their appearance and thus consumed in consumption of body management products and services. This dissatisfaction/consumption is the life blood of the beauty industry–a breeding ground of pathology.

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