These are not coincidences. These are patterns. 👀 Every single time women start to rise, to question, to challenge, to demand their rights, we see the beauty standard tighten or the diet industry boom. Every. Single. Time. The 1920s. Women get the vote. The flapper era arrives. And yes, the flapper movement was rebellious in its own right but the thin ideal attached to it? That was the problem. A woman focused on being small is a woman too distracted to notice what she just won. The Equal Pay A