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fantastic_jackie) wrote2010-04-07 11:49 pm
fantastic_jackie) wrote2010-04-07 11:49 pm
Calling all Ladies!
This is up on Yahoo, but it's under a longish blog entry.
If you are a chica, and especially of the American variety, (though not restricted to), you really need to watch this video.
The whole Week thing is weird, I think, much like all those national awareness days/weeks/months that are seemingly more for show than action and effect. (And it was 2008. lol This isn't new.) But this is definitely an important issue, and the so-called "Fat Talk" is something we should all work at to decrease.
The video is right: women have come a long way, but the whole image thing is eating us alive.
Personally, I really do not care about other's opinions of me; I never have, and it has always distanced me from my peers. I honestly don't care what anyone thinks of me, unless you are a friend. But even I am not immune to the self-depreciatory thoughts regarding my image: It still doesn't matter what they think; it matters what I think, and what I think is not always good.
I don't think any girl is immune to it. In America, the goal is to be an air brushed Photoshopped barbie, and anything short of that unattainable goal means there's something wrong with you. An interesting discussion would be whether this particular image issue is a result of our male-dominated soceity or women's relatively quick rise to power and equality. But whatever the cause, I think, as a society and a culture, that we need to take steps to deal with that problem.
What do you ladies think? It definitely needs to be more than just Talk that's adjusted...
Note to Self: Self, you need more girl icons. 99% of your current selection are of males. <.<
If you are a chica, and especially of the American variety, (though not restricted to), you really need to watch this video.
The whole Week thing is weird, I think, much like all those national awareness days/weeks/months that are seemingly more for show than action and effect. (And it was 2008. lol This isn't new.) But this is definitely an important issue, and the so-called "Fat Talk" is something we should all work at to decrease.
The video is right: women have come a long way, but the whole image thing is eating us alive.
Personally, I really do not care about other's opinions of me; I never have, and it has always distanced me from my peers. I honestly don't care what anyone thinks of me, unless you are a friend. But even I am not immune to the self-depreciatory thoughts regarding my image: It still doesn't matter what they think; it matters what I think, and what I think is not always good.
I don't think any girl is immune to it. In America, the goal is to be an air brushed Photoshopped barbie, and anything short of that unattainable goal means there's something wrong with you. An interesting discussion would be whether this particular image issue is a result of our male-dominated soceity or women's relatively quick rise to power and equality. But whatever the cause, I think, as a society and a culture, that we need to take steps to deal with that problem.
What do you ladies think? It definitely needs to be more than just Talk that's adjusted...
Note to Self: Self, you need more girl icons. 99% of your current selection are of males. <.<
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The blog entry this was attached to, which my History has misplaced somehow, was responding to poll results in which many women who were not overweight either thought they were or hated their appearance. The poll further reflected (or it may have been a different one) that women who have low self esteem because of their appearances believe there's nothing they can do to fix themselves.
I think that as a society, we logically know that the barbie doll figure and face is unattainable. That doesn't mean that it's still not portrayed as what is desirable. Otherwise, I wouldn't constantly hear women and young girls lament that they wish they had her hair or her skin or her body. Anorexia and bulemia wouldn't affect so many American women. Our Speaker of the House wouldn't have the nickname Stretch Pelosi. 'Talk' is too simplistic a term when it's actually a cultural viewpoint. Everyone from magazine models to newscasters are air bushed to perfection without a single blemish. But as a society that places so much importance on appearance, what can we expect?
I don't think that asking someone whether a particular outfit makes them look fat is a bad thing, because there definitely are outfits out there that do so. But I do think obsessing about it, unless a solution is being bandied about, does contribute to the problem of too much negative focus. And obsessing about it, when one is perfectly healthy and in shape also contributes to it. To that extent I do think that yes, friends shouldn't let friends "Fat Talk."
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I did shake my head at the irony of this being put out by the Tri Delta sorority, though. My freshman roommate was one, and if she's representative of the type of girl they like to have in their sorority, it's all beauty pageants and crash dieting to fit in formal gowns. Which, upon reflection, may be why some people on top felt this awareness was necessary!