As a person who grew up drinking milk freshly squeezed from a cows teat, I give it up wholeheartedly to almond milk. Milk fresh from a cow smells terrible and really isn’t that pleasant. It’s processed to shit, by the time it hits stores.

But that's just it. WHY do we want it to be normalized? We can recognize that trending closer towards conventional beauty standards feels good for us personally and may pay huge dividends in how we're treated, but at the end of the day, it is ABSOLUTELY because those standards exist and not "just because [insert…