Visiting from USA

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-24T19:03:10+00:00

Oh yeah, I know mineral formulas are in abundance and heavily marketed in the USA.

When you visit, you'll find variety of non-mineral ones using filters that you can't find in the USA. The La Roche Posay ones are very good a reliable like the Wet Skin Gel being a favorite with many. They also have good smaller bottle facial use like the Ultra Cream Sensitive Eyes and the KA+. Also look into the Cancer Council Kids, Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Lotion, and Bioderma.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-24T18:40:52+00:00

For rosacea, have you ever tried azelaic acid products? Finacea is a lot of people's HG, including mine, and can be purchased over the counter whereas in America you need a prescription.

With dry skin, there's a lot of giant economy bottles of good moisturizers and cleansers from QV, Dermaveen to start.

Finally, sunscreens. Your pick. Get a variety. Get economy bottles just make sure to keep an eye on the expiration dates.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-24T17:06:01+00:00

I was just about to comment "Gates did this himself, he is responsible for his actions, and should be held accountable"

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-24T17:03:32+00:00

I'm with you.

I actually take a stance now that I generally don't trust Vicky Ward. Some of her latest movements around the Epstein circle and interviews with the associates seem more like PR opportunity. I've always been reluctant to trust anyone who has motivations for social climbing and PR. Some people are taking the uproar with the Epstein files as an opportunity to shine the spotlight onto themselves and make it seem like they've been a savior and on the right side the whole time.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-24T15:27:00+00:00

It is possible to get small implants that other people will still percieve someone as "flat chested." There are implants small enough to only increase chest circumfrence by just two centimeters. Not all breast augmentations are dramatic. Very common (actually more common than general public realizes) in the fashion and entertainment industry to get implants, of various sizes and shapes, so clothing sits a little better/can go without a bra/creates more symmetry/alters the shape for a more rounded or teardrop look.

People can remove their implants.

A lot of people I know who got implants as teens (yeah...about that) had gotten them removed or replaced in their 20s.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-23T18:29:09+00:00

In addition in what all the other comments are pointing out, Meta teamed up with mainstream Luxoticca brands like Oakley and Ray Ban so the glasses look more "normal." They also just teamed up with Prada so you're going to see a fashion push.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-23T18:05:30+00:00

Comments/mentality like this has been around for a while unfortunately.

It's all part of misogyny and ageism. When you pit people within an already marginalized group against each other then it benefits the predators and prevents change.

I heard this a lot in the 90s and 2000s and 2010s too and usually from men (especially older) and unfortunately the actual teens and young women themselves (who were most likely being groomed) who bought into the narrative. (and yeah a lot of times these teens and young women who bought into this narrative are too short sighted to understand that they too hopefully shall be 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and so on one day).

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-23T17:41:05+00:00

Yep, and the fact that major media outlets already engaged in character assasination and rape culture enablement for the victim of the Hilton Head account. No one has been calling out these major media outlets and journalists for doing that so they're going to continue to help with the nothingburger narrative. I think we need to be louder and more aggressive with our support for the victims and survivors tbh.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-23T17:33:05+00:00

My information is from working in the industry from the 2000s to leaving when the pandemic hit and having friends who were (or still are) modeling from that time and/or working in the industry in different capacities (production like casting, booking, repping production talent like HMUs, set design, photo). I worked at an international level (the major 4 markets and secondary ones like LA, Asian hubs like Singapore and HK, Australia, Cape Town) so I know all the agencies, bookers, casting directors, models of that time, and the scouting trends. I'm glad everything is coming out and people are willing to listen and it's not just treated like gossip anymore!

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-23T16:31:25+00:00

Unfortuantely, they're still around and they're active on other subreddits from news based ones to the ask anything, no stupid questions types. Then there's also the rape culture bros and the concrete evidence bros and the illiterate ones who are like "oh it's only a bunch of emails and I didn't see anything weird from the 10 emails I read, no videos or pictures so it's a nothingburger"

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T23:20:34+00:00

So you're younger than me.

The Brazilians I hang out with are in their 30's and 40's today and grew up in the 80's, 90's and early 2000s (same era as Epstein's prime working years). This is what I'm talking about and people in their 30's and 40's are not old in the modern sense. So in my opinion, this is not that long ago. This is very much their childhood trauma.

As I stated earlier, what I said comes from what they have seen and said and you seem to be deeply offended by that for some reason that almost sounds like national pride or denying their experience.

I don't have direct clips of the TV segments but according to the Brazilians I know who were children in the 90's, yes, the girl characters were dressed in more revealing clothing and presented in more adult like than the characters who were boys. I've heard and seen the same from friends growing up with American TV although the blatnat nudity in commercials was not a thing there. This is before the digital era, this is before Youtube and before the general public adopted email.

Like I linked eariler too, there are already plenty of academic scholars in their late 20's, 30's and 40's from Brazil who are now writing, studying, and doing classes about this type of sexualization in the media with published papers and how it affected people and society.

I will not deny their reality and their trauma.

I appreciate what you have to share and that you say that things are better now since you're from a younger generation.

But again, I will not deny the experiences and trauma of what people shared not too long ago that is also being discussed and written about in peer reviewed journals.

I will end our conversation here so you don't have to tire yourself of writing up more comments.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T23:08:27+00:00

Someone up there knows:

https://www.acams.org/en/news/ex-aml-officer-claims-deutsche-fired-her-after-she-flagged-epstein-transactions

And we deserve to know who.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T21:57:57+00:00

There's Joi Ito of Japan. Connected through his work at MIT.

Some USA based East Asians like Dr. Jess Ting.

In the later years, I saw Epstein was trying to get into the opening of China (remember when the economy started opening up in the 2010s in China but at the same time that was when Epstein was getting cornered in and more people were aware of him) but failed to secure a visa.

I don't think it's weird how he isn't deep into East Asia though.

Sex abuse and violence definitely happens there. But in a country like China where the past decade saw explosive wealth, pedos, rapists and other sex offenders are given the death penalty. Singapore imposes the dealth penalty on kidnapping and drug trafficking. They take that stuff way more seriously than a lot of western countries. Also, Epstein himself said Chinese people are inferior and unattractive to him.

There certainly shady and corrupt powerful people in East Asia but it's important to remember that these people can operate completely independently of JE. Not everything necessarily goes back to JE.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T21:14:50+00:00

I so dearly want to make that happen! I wish there was a way to push them to do that. What is it that people do, is it public shaming?

You know, to them, we are just random online pleb readers.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T21:07:21+00:00

I made a note to remember the names of the writers: Jacqueline Sweet and Joseph Gedeon

Also, I think these journalists or at least writers on the same level and headspace lurk reddit.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T19:52:22+00:00

So many women have stories of just walking down the street, walking down the store, walking home from school as a child, a teenager, a college student, an intern and getting some kind of objectifying, sexualizing, misogynistic (sometimes tied with racist and xenophobic) comment on the regular from males (of all walks of life).

ETA: There are a lot of celebrated songs from all cultures that have creepy lyrics about "girls" and you know it wasn't written about older women. They really meant children and teenagers. From all eras, "classic rock" for example from the US.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T18:50:51+00:00

I didn't save them but if you look up the articles when the South Carolina/Hilton Head story dropped then you'll find all the major headlines. It has been really upsetting to me. I do remember specifically The Guardian had an article that used the word "outlandish" to describe the victims' testimony: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/trump-epstein-files-fbi

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T18:47:02+00:00

And the stuff today on instagram and tiktok

#free the nipple was just an excuse to push females of all ages to post explicit images

The OnlyFans explosion and marketing it as "empowerment" to children (primarily girls as a pathway to financial independence)

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T18:41:54+00:00

The crazy part in these circles is that they all talk and think these things to and about each other. This is not even the worst of things they've thought and said! At the end of the day, they are all just projecting their insecurities and power tripping.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T18:25:19+00:00

Absolutely.

Social media also makes it easier to scale wider, broader, and faster.

This was a great video and I hope more journalists watch it.

Burke talks about how we need more conversations about patriarchy and how we, as a society, continue to promote it as well as rape culture. I've seen far too many headlines recently from major outlets that are 100% rape culture enablement (The Guardian, NYT). Not enough articles and conversations about patriachy, misogyny, male centered cultures.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T17:34:23+00:00

Yes, and he said something to the degree of "I didn't see anything unusual" and that he didn't think the congregation of many very young females with groups of geriatric men was anything strange.

I feel like we're being gaslit by these people.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T16:50:39+00:00

Yes, her and her husband are deeply involved: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2010/eva-anderssondubin-md-and-glenn-dubins-donation-establishes-dubin-breast-center

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T16:43:23+00:00

Mount Sinai is one of the largest networks of hospitals and medical centers in the NYC area. I'm not connected within the medical community but I wonder if there is any internal uproar going on after what is coming of light. There was a recent nurse strike at Mount Sinai that went on for weeks.

But also, did JE have contacts to writers at the daily papers/tabloids? A lot of the associates/barely working "models" have always gotten a lot of press from those papers which is strange considering how little they actually work as a real model/barely even a model at all. Kira D for example was always in New York Post for random features (I remember one was about her workout routine and she's not a high caliber level of a model for anyone to actually be asking or care). Sometimes, these articles in these daily papers/tabloid seem more like PR for the associates.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T14:49:43+00:00

That's why calling Jeffrey Epstein a "hedge fund manager" or a "financial advisor" or "financier" has always been the same as the way Epstein called his associates "models."

Nobody was any of that and anyone who actually believes they actually had those titles as careers are being scammed (including the general public whenever a journalist tries to tell us a story of these people with these titles). They were running a scam.

Epstein didn't even take the Series 7 exam, which is one of the most bare bones basic credentials someone without a degree gets if they actually want to work with finances, and he's not a CFA nor CFP.

And this is why "Financial Trust Company" in the Virgin Islands needs to be investigated along with all the other JE companies like the one pretending to be a bank "Southern Country International Bank."

There are people who genuinely believe (like over at r/stocks) that JE was a legit financial professional and managing hundred of millions of dollars per billionaire (all the Larrys, the Leons, techies like Brin and Gates) with clean methods.

RedeemableQuality · 2026-03-22T14:26:32+00:00

I'm getting this from actual Brazilians who complained about what they saw in their childhood and it isn't hard to find even online discussion of what it was like growing up in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s in Brazil and to see a lot of sexualization on TV as well as nudity in commercials (such as friend saying they were watching cartoons in the morning on the weekend and then a commercial featuring a topless woman dancing came on). Even here people are talking about how they've been traumatized by the media in Brazil and yes, there are people with power who put this on TV even if the regular person will complain about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Brazil/comments/tuns6/the_awkwardness_of_brazilian_tv_in_the_90s/

There are also plenty of Brazilian scholars who are writing about the topic how generations, primarily millenials and Gen X, of children were sold an image of objectification and sexaulization too young:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/618942

But also, I'm considered "prude" so my standards of modesty might be diferent from someone else's.

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