an exchange with my roommate after her monthly wax
- Roommate: Why do we do this to ourselves?
- Me: Because a patriarchal society has convinced us that we need to meet and maintain certain standards of beauty to be deserving of worth and love.
- Roommate: ...Yup.
- Me: Yup.
- Roommate: ...
- Me: ...SEE YOU IN TEN MINUTES FOR MANI PEDIS!!!!
- Roommate: MANIPEDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!!