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The answer for women who feel worthless is not 'you are beautiful' | Calla Wahlquist

Who benefits from this system that makes everyone I know feel terrible? Photograph: IPGGutenbergUKLtd/Getty Images/iStockphoto

There is a reddit post doing the rounds of the clickbait sites. You may have seen it, headlined with something like: A woman asked other women how they coped with not being beautiful, and a man — yes, a MAN! — had the perfect response.

The original post asks a forum of other women how they cope with not being pretty. She confesses that she wants to be beautiful; is jealous of those “born pretty”; asks for advice how

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