Ethics and Marketing

By all accounts, I was quite beautiful in my youth but I lived when I should have died in part because I was able to resist social pressure to cater to social standards of conventional beauty at all costs...

Other women seem to have a much harder time than I have with telling the world "You can take your beauty standards and shove them up your ass. My health comes first." I strongly suspect I have that luxury because I was very attractive at one time, I know a lot about clothes and photography and so on and my self esteem is just not tied to such superficial imagery.

I remember talking on an email list about using a lot of peroxide and someone had a cow about "It will turn your hair ORANGE!"

It turns my hair blonde and I look good as a blonde, so I absolutely did not care nor think about such things. But with her having a fit, I tried to get better about giving people little warnings about things like that.

But I don't really get it because what CF does to you is so horrible that if it turned my hair green with purple polka dots I have trouble imagining I would find that to be too high a price to pay for getting better and no longer being tortured by my condition like I once was. And I can only guess that some combo of less in the way of savvy about how to make yourself passably attractive and also how to handle social crap makes it an excessive burden to bear for other people.

The longstanding standard means to magically get money from the internet without charging your audience money is with advertising. A site like this where I talk about alternative medicine and supplements tends to attract quack remedies trying to make a fast buck.

I'm clear that pwcf are more prone than average to metal poisoning and my best understanding is there is no known means to chelate silver out of your system once you have silver poisoning.

So if I had ads on this site and that meant sometimes colloidal silver got advertised here without me knowing it, I can't even fix you if you stupidly think "She is okay with that remedy. I saw that ad on her site." and buy colloidal silver and take it for some damn reason.

At one time, my son licked his hands all day everyday because they were dry, he was a kid and trying to get relief and ultimately it was resolved when I learned that is why he did that and told him his saliva was digesting the oils on his hands and drying them out.

I worry about women harming their health in pursuit of beauty.

I worry about people being ignorant of how to properly use a product and what product actually helps and what product only SEEMS to help but actually makes things worse, like a seven year old licking their hands because they feel dry.

I don't know everything. I have a genetic disorder and what works or doesn't work for me doesn't necessarily generalize.

I think there is room for legitimate products in this space. I'm also absolutely certain that most of society doesn't actually care about quality of life when selling beauty products to women.

David Kibbe, author of Metamorphosis -- a book about his clothing styles typing system -- spoke of the fashion and beauty industry making women miserable rather than enhancing their lives. Some of the women photographed for his book look twenty pounds lighter just by dressing them different.

If your solution is like what David Kibbe provides which is all over Reddit though his book is out of print, I'm all for it.

If it merely makes you richer while helping to keep women imprisoned in a tyrannical system where we care only what you look like and not what price you are paying in terms of pain and suffering to look that way, I'm happy to see your thing go die in a fire.

Ethics and beauty tend to not be best friends. If you are healthy, you typically look better than if you are not but we rarely put health first in the fashion and beauty industry.

I would like to make clothes that make women more comfortable in their clothes, physically and psychologically and that includes feeling good about social things like people complimenting you and your clothes helping you do your job and get promoted because looks matter and how much hassle you go through to achieve them matters.

I struggle with how to advertise that because there is enormous pressure to do a great many things to sell the product that are more about getting sales than about helping the customer get what they need by communicating effectively about the product.

We choose models, photography techniques, etc. knowing people subconsciously want to "look like her" even though buying that outfit won't make them look like her. How one can sell fashion and beauty products that both prioritize quality of life for the customer and are marketed ethically to match people to the product that actually works for them is an unsolved problem.

Currently those tend to conflict. And I hold little hope that an unknown industry outsider and her wacky ideas critical of current marketing methods will ever be taken seriously, much less get traction.