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Detoxing From the Male Gaze

Our Beauty Editor wrote you this powerful manifesto, and it rocks!

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Shannon Park/Gotham Goddess
Jan 08, 2025
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In the locker room at my gym recently, I watched a woman in her 80s do what I aspire to—give zero fucks as she strode naked into the showers after her swim. This act of self-assurance inspired me beyond measure. There she was, a woman like me, 30 years in the future, representing. Surgery scars, stretch marks, 85-year-old flesh with the signs of aging a…

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Shannon Park/Gotham Goddess
Makeup artist, esthetician, feminist, New Yorker. ✨NEW✨Beauty Editor for Womancake Magazine
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