43-year-old mom insists on wearing pimple patches to her sister-in-laws wedding to show her 13-year-old daughter that it's okay to have acne: 'She has struggled with cystic acne her whole teenage and adult life.'

Right intention, wrong time and place.

It's not very socially encouraged to be proud of your acne. Teenagers are put on intense medications like Accutane and do everything in their power to hide their acne from their peers. Not only does acne make you feel unattractive, but it can also be physically painful.

One of the newest acne inventions sweeping Gen Z is pimple patches. These are little stickers that you put on your zits and somehow slurp some of the pus out of them. People wear them to sleep, but they also wear them out in public. Whether this is a product meant to accentuate acne or hide it is still a mystery to me. It both hides the actual pimple while making it much more apparent that there is a pimple under that patch.

However you feel about pimple patches, it's very clear that they have become much more socially acceptable to use in everyday life. Young people don't just wear them to the gym or the grocery store. They wear them to work, school, and just about any place you can think of.

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The mom in this story struggles with cystic acne, so she wears pimple patches to work to show her teenage students it's okay to have visible acne. That's all well and good at an all-girls Catholic High School, but now she wants to wear her pimple patches to a formal event, and neither her husband nor her teenage daughter wants her to follow through on that.
Am I the bad guy for asking my wife to please do NOT wear visible star-shaped pimple patches to a wedding?

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