Yeah that doesn’t stop the excruciating pain tho. Who gives a shit what they look like? That’s not what people with bad teeth worry about. We worry about the infection getting into our blood and killing us. We worry about the dry socket because we couldn’t afford dental care and had to pull any teeth that were rotting out. I had three people who HAD GIVEN BIRTH tell me that the dry sockets that they had had HURT WORSE THAN LABOR. I’ve always said that I didn’t want to ever give birth because of the intense pain and everyone was like, “Well fuck, you can handle it now. You got through this.”

No one gives a shit about how their teeth look if they actually have bad teeth. They don’t have time between boughts of spitting up blood and excruciating, horrifying pain. I get that this was supposed to be a positive “It’s ok to be vain” thing, but honey, seriously, if that’s ALL that’s wrong with your teeth and you’re bitching about not being able to afford /cosmetic/ dentistry? Then kinda, you know… TRADE PLACES with someone who ACTUALLY has dental issues.

Like… how privileged do you have to be to write something like that? For real? Like, “I realize that you live in constant fear of death, you’re always in excruciating pain, you may be on a liquid diet right now, your teeth may be overlapping in the most painful and tightening ways imaginable making your gums bleed and your entire body ache so that you can’t figure out if it’s normal teeth pain or an ear infection, but at least you shouldn’t feel ugly!”

Rich people have the weirdest priorities.

