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Readers Write/Vanity

I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

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Readers of The Sun Magazine
2003
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Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.

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Steven Petrow
2017
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Roxane Gay: ‘My Body Is a Cage of My Own Making’

Strangers remove food from her shopping trolley, humiliate her in the gym and refuse to sit next to her on planes. How did size get to be such a big deal?

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Roxane Gay
2017
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Why Do So Many Gay and Bisexual Men Struggle With Body Image?

What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.

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Philip Ellis
2019
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Free the Nippleless! From Ourselves and the Shame of Living in a Society that Rarely Acknowledges Us

For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.

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Jessica Zucker
2021
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