[ SECRET POST #2538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2538 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It goes both ways. For instance, there's one strip where Cathy realizes that everyone who's ever called her beautiful has been trying to sell her something. You could read that as mocking Cathy for not being conventionally attractive, or you could read it as mocking the myths that have built up around "beauty." (I'd go with the latter, since all the major characters in the strip are average-looking or even ugly--it's certainly not pushing the narrow pop-cultural vision of "beauty" as something everyone needs to try for.)

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[erinptah]

Don't remember that exact strip, but it sounds like it also fits right in with others that highlight how "the way women feel about their own appearances" has been so aggressively co-opted by marketers and salespeople.

And I would lay down money that Cathy's mother has called her beautiful at some point within the series. There's no way she hasn't! Plus, whether or not Cathy's friends/boyfriends have said those exact words, they never act like her appearance is mockworthy, either.