First-World Woes

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I think I may have recently encountered one of the saddest things in my life.

So I was at Victoria's Secret last week, indulging in my periodic need for overpriced, undersized scraps of brightly-colored lace and satin. And, for those of you who don't shop there on a regular basis, in addition to lingerie, Vicky's also sells overpriced, undersized bits of makeup and perfume as well.

Anyway, I found what I was looking for, and got in line to check out. A moment or two later, another woman got in line behind me, along with her daughter, who couldn't have been more than 8 or 9 years old. Said daughter, apparently bored with shopping for mom's underwear, began poking through the makeup and picked up a tube of sparkly lip gloss. And she quite politely asked her mother if she could have it.

At which point, with much eye-rolling and exasperation, the mom took the lip gloss away from the girl and firmly put it back, with the admoniton of 'NO! You're too old to wear glitter!'

Which..... WHAT? Okay - aside from the fact that, if that's the case, what the hell am I supposed to do with the four-pack of liquid glitter eyeliner in my bathroom cabinet, if nine is too old to wear glitter, what the hell IS an appropriate age to wear sparkly lip gloss? I have an unfortunate vision of NICU nurses carrying tubes of Cover Girl Wetslicks to smear on newborns at the same time that they put on those teeny hats they all seem to be born wearing....

This is not right.

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