It sort of reminds me of the concept of psychological investment. The more you've given to something, the more you feel compelled to defend it. So women who have spent their entire lives working to be beautiful—makeup, exercises, special clothes—often get outright offended when someone suggests they don't need it. Because if they admit that, they also have to admit that everything they've done to maintain the beauty is a waste, and nobody wants to admit that they've wasted their lives.
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Date: 2013-02-26 06:43 pm (UTC)