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Alexis Neal, Carla Godwin, and Jessica Hardin discuss makeup, hair dye, cosmetic surgery, and other ways women alter their physical appearance. This one’s a little longer than usual, but we didn’t want to stop the good discussion.

• INTRODUCTIONS
• SEG 1: KNOWING:
  • Our experiences and feelings about the issue
  • Non-white experiences
    • “Embodied Blackness: Crowns of Glory” (Truth’s Table)
    • “Embodied Blackness: Colorism” (Truth’s Table)
    • “Embodied Blackness: Colorism, Part 2” (Truth’s Table)
    • “Blepharoplasty in Asian Patients: Ethnic and Ethical Implications” (AMA Journal of Ethics)
    • “Double Standards” (99 Percent Invisible)
  • SEG 2: READING
    • Relevant Biblical Principles
      • Creation as a mixture of good and fallen [Ps. 139]
      • What is truly beautiful?
        • External beauty v. internal beauty [I Sam. 16:7; Prov. 31:30; 1 Peter 3:3-4]
        • Age v. youth [Leviticus 19:32; Prov. 16:21; Prov. 20:29]
        • Temporal v. eternal, resurrected body [Matt 6:19-21; Phil. 1:21-26; 3:20-21]
      • Stewardship [Matt. 25:14-30; I Cor. 6:19-20]
      • Love of neighbor [1 Cor 9:21-23; Col. 2:20-23]
      • Believer’s Freedom [Gal. 5:13-14; Col. 2:20-23]
    • The Principles Applied
      • Creation (Good yet Fallen):
        • “Catholics, Plastic Surgery, and ‘the Truth of the Feminine Self’” (New York Times)
        • “Should a Christian Get Cosmetic Surgery? I Did” (Weighted Glory)
      • What is truly beautiful?
      • Stewardship
        • “Men Spend More Time Getting Ready Than Women, Research Shows” (Telegraph UK) (2011)
        • “High-Maintenance, Eh? Men & Women Take the Same Amount of Time in the Morning, Poll Says” (Huffington Post) (2013)
        • “The Time It Takes to Be a Woman” (Glamour) (2016) (presented as having an empirical basis, but no source information provided)
        • The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
        • “Where Jonathan Haidt Thinks the American Mind Went Wrong” (The Ezra Klein Show)
      • Love of Neighbor
        • Compliment Flowchart (Twitter)
      • Freedom
    • “Discovering God’s Will”, by Sinclair Ferguson (Monergism)
  • SEG 3 PASSING ON
    • “How to Grow Newer When You’re Not Growing Younger” (Gospel Coalition)
    • “Catholics, Plastic Surgery, and ‘the Truth of the Feminine Self’” (New York Times)
    • “For Women In Politics, Personal Style Is A Game Of Chess With The Patriarchy” (Huffington Post)
    • “Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup” (Amy Schumer, YouTube)
    • “Last F***able Day” (Amy Schumer, YouTube)