Because our cultural mirror is cruel:
"Maybe this all seems funny, or trivial, but it's really not. It's about what girls want to be, what they're told they should be, and how they feel about who they are. . . I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they be independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny -- a thousand things before 'thin.'
I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do.
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
Let them never be Stupid Girls. Rant over."
— J.K Rowling cheering Pink's anti-anthem, Stupid Girls
I Like Solutions Focus
and agree it's time. Daryl Hannah did a really "winning" job of this on the radio with Sean Hannity. She wouldn't argue, said even without reviewing data (much less fighting over it) or accepting there's a climate crisis brewing or arguing about whether it is God's will for us to screw up the environment, it STILL just makes more sense to do all these things, make these enlightened changes and live "better". That it needn't be about sacrifice and loss, that it better serves ourselves and our posterity, especially getting away from oil! She was quite charming, admitted she hates to fly anyway so that was no sacrifice, etc.
She nearly had Hannity eating out of her hand by the time she was done.
I remember hearing bipartisan sources agree all politics is about hope and fear. Seems to me on this issue it's time for hope of real solutions to take over as a motivator. I think that's what a lot of the individual things are about for now, giving us specific positive actions however insignificant to focus on, that feel like hope instead of powerless diffuse fear.