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Alanis Morissette
Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in
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Alanis Morissette highlights that people often treat young women with a lack of respect or seriousness, while older women face pressure to change their appearance to fit certain beauty standards. She describes being at an age where she experiences both sides of this unfair treatment, caught between youth and aging.
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