4/16/2021 Clean Skin: The Real Ugly
By taking your 8-year-old daughter to the dermatologist for a solution for her blackheads (??!?), you might think you're "helping" her or "doing her a favor" by exposing her to the tools against which "ugliness" can be fought, but there's so much wrong with this that I have to end this sentence and start a new one. First, you're sending the message that she is, in fact, ugly. Don't bother denying it. "Blackheads" are the collection of dirt, oils, and dead skin cells in the skin's pores, and, out here in reality, I imagine that they actually act as part of the body's natural defense system. They plug up the access points and create a bottleneck. Your body's immune system can then fight off any harmful pathogens as they trickle in, if they get in at all. Because there are also naturally occurring oils also present in these "heads which are black," I figure that like lots of other oils, they are acidic and help to disarm said harmful pathogens before they even make it to the deeper realms of the pore where they could enter the bloodstream and wreak havoc. So not only are you agreeing that she's ugly, perpetuating the severely psychologically harmful precedents set by Hollywood and cosmetics companies, you're also helping to work against her immune system. Congratulations, you're stupid in two ways for one thing.
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