Friend Tag

Photo: Getty While scrolling through social media last week, I got here across a TikTok video on Instagram via stories. The caption grabbed my short attention span–it was about how not being approached by men in a friend group can affect one’s self-esteem.  Kristina Blake said each time she’s out along with her friends, she never gets approached by the other sex. Blake gave further background context that she had low self-esteem growing up and still has lingering negative self-talk as an adult within the video. “It’s hard for me to imagine I’m a fairly girl once I’m out and men don’t approach me”, she said. Her query was, how do you internalize and take care of that? ...