Calling all Ladies!
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fantastic_jackieThis 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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Date: 2010-04-08 05:07 pm (UTC)I also can't stand that we look at, for instance, Hilary Clinton, and proclaim, "She's a woman and look what she did!" For all our claims of progress to equality, we still treat success as if it's against the odds. History does dictate what happened in the past, but we're living in a different world from then. It is not uncommon for a woman to hold political office or be a powerful executive. - But that's a different rant. ... Mostly.