Comment by Leo on Ase To Sekken - Chapter 95

All true, but this was also a pamphlet from a company that wants to sell you something. Beauty-related companies, be it clothes or make up or shaving or whatever, have always tried to put the doubt in your mind so you'll buy their product.

Just, think about men and beards. Back when having a beard was a must for an upstanding man, companies would publicize trimming razors, lotions to care for it, dye for when your beard started to go grey etc. Nowadays when a lot of men don't want to bother with beard maintenance and just shave it all off, most ads are for "the smootest shave" or "the longest time before regrowth" or "the razor for real men" etc.

And for women it's SO MUCH WORSE. Ads constantly bombarding women about things wrong with their bodies that they MUST buy the product for so they can fix it. The cream so your skin glows, the mask so your pores are perfect, the razor so your legs are the smoother than they've ever been... All of them some variation of "BUY OUR PRODUCT BECAUSE OTHERWISE MEN WON'T WANT YOU!!!" because ads still work the "women must be perfect for men" for the most part, even if they hide under a "you should do it for yourself" illusion.

All of it is just bullshit from companies. The moment companies realized they could manipulate women into buying their products by just making them feel inferior, we've had this kind of sh** around.