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I've been ugly my whole life and treated like crap because of it. I've had to swim against the tide of social disapproval my entire life, and I could just forget about having any kind of romantic relationship. As I've grown older I've noticed some unexpected benefits from having lived this way for so many years. I'm USED to being ignored/invisible/treated as unworthy, so my gray hair doesn't bother me, and I don't even try with makeup. It's such a relief to not even have to try. Trying is just a waste of money and effort to win a game you can never win. All around me, women who were pretty in their youth and were used to all the advantages they got from men and the rest of society were panicking at the advent of invisibility and irrelevance. There's no use trying to hang on to youth and beauty. YOU CAN'T. Invisibility is freedom. Irrelevance is FREEDOM. When your oppressors aren't interested in you any more, that is a GOOD THING. You have to give up any dreams of romance you might have though, and most women find this very hard to do. Needing a relationship with a man puts you in the position of having to try to please him, which will always be the position of less power. Dump the men and become a radical feminist. You'll get all the validation and friendship you need from other women who are exactly in the same boat as you, and you'll get to fight this bullshit system too.

August 4, 2016 - 11:02am

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