# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrBBc7DR84
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62945248-michigandaily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-03T14:01:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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#Statement: This is the question I recently found myself asking on two major fronts. The first is among us women when it comes to nitpicking and discussing the way we look. Over spring break, as I was walking down the street to meet my friend for dinner one night, I overheard two women in their 70s talking about the wrinkles on their faces and the sagging skin around their arms. This isn’t a type of conversation I haven’t heard before; in fact, I hear it all the time — in every age group, in every friend group, in every setting. But watching these two ostensibly wise, older women with their long, flowing gray hair, distinguished trench coats and a host of unique life experiences dumb themselves down to the natural aging process of their skin genuinely terrified me. If this is what the next 50 years look like, I’m not sure I can do it, considering I’m exhausted after only 20. Does it ever end?

The second reason I found myself asking this question was because of male judgment of women’s bodies. I was at my friend’s apartment the other night, happily munching on my Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers Box Combo meal, when I overheard his roommate, who, guitar in lap, made a comment about the girls in a certain sorority being fat. Very original. To be honest with you, it neither bothered nor shocked me the moment he said it. Like women tearing themselves down, unnecessary male commentary feels like white noise at this point, and you train yourself to ignore it so much that you actually do. But in the following days, when I couldn’t stop thinking about his throwaway comment that wasn’t even directed at me, I realized how much it had bothered me. It was another reminder that women are always being perceived and judged. Does it ever end?

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