If you told me that I literally had to eat poop every single day and I would look younger, I might.

— Kim Kardashian

All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

— Ghost in the Shell

Robobitch, robopathology. We are still stuck in the crack
between empowerment feminism and reality. I suffered

because of the way my body looked. Beauty is over.
A stripper who wouldn’t stop at the clothes. She continued

with old useless flesh. She pulled off one bloodless strip
after another. Problems swallowing, speaking, breathing.

Loss of strength; overall muscle weakness. I’d hated my body
for years, felt both obscured and exposed by it, and subjected

it to many acts that others wanted irrespective of my desires.
Confusion over the boundaries between self and technological

system. Double-vision; blurred vision; drooping eyelids. Culture
depicts women as the signs of objects but not usually the processors

or subjects of knowledges. Here women and computers are structurally
equivalent: friendly to users, not themselves users. She’d used up

the currency of a youthful face. The frozen look—remember, youthful
faces move—a maternal or feminine body to be penetrated, but up

and manipulated in quests to appropriate and control resources.
The relation between organism and machine has been a border war.

Women’s bodies are already ‘transitional objects.’ All humans
are cyborgs all cyborgs are sharp shards of sky wrapped in meat.

Not all humans are ready to call themselves glass stalactites pissing
the bed. Loss of bladder control. Youth and beauty are not

accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time
and/or DNA. Feeling as ugly as you feel, feeling your doom as you are.

You’re looking at a manifestation of a connection so deep
and rooted that it’s more real than I am. You’re looking at my face.

“Botox Cento” Sources: Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs, and Cyberspace Ed. Wolmark, , Susanna Schrobsdorff  “Justine Bateman’s Aging Face and Why She Doesn’t Think it Needs Fixing”, Melissa Febos’ “The Feminist Case for Breast Reduction”, Diane Seuss’s “Beauty is Over”, William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Botox Warning Label, Lauren Valenti & Chloe Atkins “Here’s What You Need to Know About Preventative Botox in Your 20’sDonna Harroway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”, Franny Choi “Turing Test_Love”, Carrie Fisher Tweet Dec 29th, 2015 9:51pm, Katie Berta “I Realized Skincare Would Not Save My Life.”