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How to Get Botox

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Unladylike Media

Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Is there a right way to choose your Botox choice? Does it make you a bad feminist? Is a wrinkle makeover worth it? Cristen and Caroline examine their own aging anxieties and break through the good-or-bad Botox binary with Dr. Dana Berkowitz, author of Botox Nation: Changing the Face of America.

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0:00.0

We have a double standard of aging and women age, you know, they start age like 30.

0:09.6

And I think that's why, you know, Botox is so seductive to women in their 30s because

0:15.8

it's not really about defying aging, it's about like designing agelessness.

0:20.4

It's really about freezing your face in time.

0:24.8

Really like right before you hit middle age.

0:30.2

Like a lady.

0:32.8

I'm lady like a lady.

0:35.6

Like a lady.

0:36.7

Like a lady like a lady like a lady.

0:40.7

I can't...

0:44.2

To Botox are not to Botox.

0:47.2

Caroline, that is a question I honestly never thought I'd be asking myself, and yet

0:54.2

here I am, a 35 year old woman and a guilty feminist, considering Botox.

1:00.6

Well, honestly, Kristen, as you know, if money and COVID were no object right now,

1:05.7

I would get my forehead shot up tomorrow.

1:07.9

Like, why not?

1:09.8

Because patriarchal beauty standards, right?

1:13.1

Like, the feminist voice in my head is telling me,

1:16.8

Kristen, girl, you are worth more than you are face value.

1:21.8

And then I see the giant crevasse between my eyebrows.

1:27.5

Oh yeah, I mean, like, I wish I didn't care about my forehead wrinkles,

1:32.0

but I really do.

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