How I Overheard My Girls Talk About Beauty

Sally Kohn: Talking to my three elementary aged daughters about beauty is really thorny because I'm a conventionally looking cisgendered woman. The children already know from sort of existing in the world about the pretty privilege, right? So when I tried to convince them, appearance isn't important. It's what's on the inside that counts. She says she didn't want them to fall into the trap and the tyranny of vanity. "I feel like my intentions were good because the pretty privilege excludes and marginalizes so many people"

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