Inflation here? gas/grocery prices just continue to climb

Men have their own litany of problems that I could spend a thousand years pontificating on, so I'm certainly not randomly bashing girls/women here, but I've always been very troubled by the place rampant consumerism/materialism driven by the fashion industry has in the American feminine identity.

Nobody needs 200 pairs of shoes. Nobody needs an entire closet dedicated to shoes.

Nobody needs an entire new wardrobe every few months.

Nobody should buy absurdly expensive dresses that are worn one time and then completely disregarded.

These are not healthy practices economically, sociological, or even mentally. Big spending shopping sprees to deal with stress or depression are not a good thing. "Retail therapy" is a pretty sick concept. You get a brief dopamine hit from buying some clothes and then all your problems are still there.

And it feeds destructive practices on the corporate end of things. Sweat shops. Pollution. Forcing girls and women to feel like they're always competing with or one upping each other.

It's just all bad.
Totally agree. You ever notice in commercials that the male is almost always the "dummy" that messes up and then the woman introduces this great new product that will save the day. Marketing is constantly targeting women to spend, spend, spend.