Motherhood is not my only purpose. I am also a human being. Hard stop.

While what you say here is not entirely untrue, I don’t want my entire experience of personhood to be influenced by one of the many roles I may or may not choose to take on in life.

It’s not a terrible thing to be looked at, or appreciated by the male gaze. And I agree that beauty plays a role in mate selection.

But I am more than just a baby maker. I am a curious, intellectual, intelligent human soul that just happens to live in a female body. And I detest the fact that the socialization of humans in our modern world puts such primacy on a single facet of being.

Most of all, I hate that this programming wormed its way into my own experience of self. If I knew how to get rid of the inner awareness of my appearance, I wouldn’t honestly have any issue with it.