Gia Tolentino
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336 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Gia Tolentino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, I don't think it's wrong to want to be beautiful.
And there's one of the reasons I think there's a pleasure
From a young age, we probably also understood there's kind of a pleasure in seeing, like, what could I be?
Like, girls are lovely.
Girls want to self-improve.
It's a rite of passage.
And the way that that gets captured by these systems is almost what I want to, you know, what I feel the desire to protect in my daughter.
How do we separate the desire to kind of...
make something of yourself from the desire that will lead you straight to capture in all of these systems.
And I think for me, you know, I just never want her to see me becoming deranged by this, becoming actually captured by it.
I think she will see me her whole life
You know, responding to it, living within the system, you know, but I never want her to think.
I never want her to see within me that the purpose of being a woman is to be as beautiful as possible all the time, you know, and to never look old, to never change, to always look like I did when I was 26.
I never want her to see those incentives that exist on the Internet be written on my actual body.
activities in life.
And I hope I can hold myself to that for her sake, you know?
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