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If You Need An Example Of How Silly Our Standards Have Gotten For How Women Look … Ta-Da!

I try not to pay attention to body-shaming BS for my own sanity, but I just learned about a trend pressuring women and girls to have a gap between their thighs, and it really caught me off-guard. (Haven’t heard of it? Lucky you!) What’s next? Obsessions with perfectly round freckles? Super wrinkly elbows?Thank goodness for…

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