because no woman, apparently, can ever, ever be enough

[rm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/education/01girls.html

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But, yeah. Depressing comments aside (I'm still young and admittedly, openly deeply unhappy because of a lot of things, so don't give all that too much weight, yeah?), I don't think this is healthy. The "effortlessly hot" part aside, I think this is just another form of misogyny, but a less recognizable one now because it doesn't have the traditional "be beautiful and snag a good man!" baggage attached to it. It's still telling women that they're only good for one thing (though in this case it's how hard they can work or how smart they are), and that they have to be perfect. I'm honestly a little surprised their mothers don't see this. Though maybe I say that because there are two generations between my mother (she's technically a baby boomer) and me and most people's mothers are younger.