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We are taught to place all our art in adorning our outward forms, and permitted, without reproach, to carry that custom even to extravagancy, while our minds are entirely neglected, and, by disuse of reflections, filled with nothing but the trifling objects our eyes are daily entertained with. This custom, so long established and industriously upheld, makes it even ridiculous to go out of the common road, and forces one to find as many excuses, as if it were a thing altogether criminal not to play the fool in concert with other women of quality, whose birth and leisure only serve to render them the most useless and most worthless part of the creation.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (aged 21) in her letter to Bishop Burnet, July 20, 1710.

#feminism #anti beauty industry #anti feminine industry #How embarrassing for feminism that 300 years ago women already acknowledged that beauty culture is an *industry* that holds women back #and nowadays “feminists” don't even want to be critical of makeup #she'd be called a “pick me”#that last sentence you can just feel she was heated when she wrote that good for her #anti makeup #radical feminism #when an aristocrat from 1710 is a better meanfem than any of us #I'm only half serious #she had some good takes for her era she was just about spitting on men with this #but she also did think women are inherently inferior but that education would make women better not worse #hey we cannot have it all but I still think it's interesting right #oh you bet she was so mad the majority of atheists were female #sheesh! wonder why!#she thinks it's *because* women weren't educated enough #I think it's because men are full of shit and “showed” the women religion in practice #but oh well

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