This just really pisses me off.

I have been extraordinarily busy and not able to blog, but this caught my eye. It represents everything that is wrong with our consumer capitalist system in the US. The hidden agendas buried within the article are vile and evil. They can not be allowed to reach our children and grandchildren.

When you review the following online article you discover that there are three very sick and perverted underlying messages being presented.
First, that only young women are of important and meaningful to our society and culture, old women are useless and damaged.
Second, that hippies are dangerous, old, and ugly.
Third, that only through spending hundreds of dollars a month on her image, can a woman be considered of value to her family, husband, and community.

If one were to calculate the glaring insustainability of these make-overs during this recession, where does the donning of faux persona (masks of makeup, dresses to hide bodies, hair helmets requiring monthly maintenance) come in relation to the priorities of gas, food, energy?????

If the one woman truly were an authentic hippie she never would have agreed to this change.

http://www.stylelist.com/style-guide/make-overs-makeover-look-five-years-younger