[boysrus]

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...631932,00.html

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As a schoolgirl Ligron saved her lunch money to buy fashion magazines, and she was appalled to find in Japan a country of young women hunched over and wobbling in untrendy shoes, avoiding the sun to keep pale, hiding under too many layers of stockings and Bridget Jones underwear. "The first thing that struck me was - I have to liberate these women!" she says.

 

[thismama]

Sounds like just replacing an Eastern beauty ideal with a Western one.

Who was it that said they didn't realize the global village would look like California? Something like that anyway...

 

[Aura_Kitten]

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Originally Posted by thismama Sounds like just replacing an Eastern beauty ideal with a Western one

Those women looked exactly alike. Blegh.