weight dichotomy
**mood: glad it's friday
**noise:i believe in love ~ indigo girls
we live in such an interesting world. women seem to only be seen as beautiful if they're wafer thin, with porcelain skin and perfect hair. Television is littered with diet pills, exercise equipment, miracle cures and weight loss surgeries. people all around me are on diets and exercise regimens. which is a great thing! don't get me wrong. if you need to lose weight for health reasons, do it! but what makes me sad is the stigma that women have to look and act a certain way. and it just keeps getting worse and worse. last week in target, i was walking past the little girl clothes when i overheard a girl, about 8 yrs old, telling her mom how she looks fat in everything. something is wrong in the world if little kids are worried about their weight. and this girl, was not over weight. not at all!
and as all things, even this weight issue has a flip side. now women are getting too thin for us. we photograph all these women and ridicule then for losing too much weight. their photographs are posted all over tv and magazines with their bones protruding through their clothes.
at the same time, london decides to make a weight limit on their run way girls...so now you can't be too skinny...and now tyra banks who is now 'too heavy'! what is this fascination with weight and why do women have to always be too skinny or too heavy? why does this matter so much? do you ever think that if we didn't spend so much energy on women's weight, that maybe we wouldn't have so many girls starving themselves or gorging themselves depending on how they respond to pressure?
and why is it that i'm concerned that i've already gained 5 pounds in this pregnancy? this affects everyone and i'm getting super sick of it. so when i saw Tyra Banks call out people who make fun of weight issues, my insides got all warm and fuzzy.
i know sometimes i live in kim world, thinking that one day this world will change, but i do hope we start changing this issue. there is just too much damage in this world to continue to poke fun at one another.
i may not be wafer thin, i may not have perfect hair or the coolest clothes. i may not talk witty or even well at times, i may not drive the coolest car, or wear makeup to cover up my old woman lines and make my eye 'pop'. but ya know what? that shouldn't matter. and i'd love to know why it does.
i'm giving tyra props on this one. and i agree with her.
**noise:i believe in love ~ indigo girls
we live in such an interesting world. women seem to only be seen as beautiful if they're wafer thin, with porcelain skin and perfect hair. Television is littered with diet pills, exercise equipment, miracle cures and weight loss surgeries. people all around me are on diets and exercise regimens. which is a great thing! don't get me wrong. if you need to lose weight for health reasons, do it! but what makes me sad is the stigma that women have to look and act a certain way. and it just keeps getting worse and worse. last week in target, i was walking past the little girl clothes when i overheard a girl, about 8 yrs old, telling her mom how she looks fat in everything. something is wrong in the world if little kids are worried about their weight. and this girl, was not over weight. not at all!
and as all things, even this weight issue has a flip side. now women are getting too thin for us. we photograph all these women and ridicule then for losing too much weight. their photographs are posted all over tv and magazines with their bones protruding through their clothes.
at the same time, london decides to make a weight limit on their run way girls...so now you can't be too skinny...and now tyra banks who is now 'too heavy'! what is this fascination with weight and why do women have to always be too skinny or too heavy? why does this matter so much? do you ever think that if we didn't spend so much energy on women's weight, that maybe we wouldn't have so many girls starving themselves or gorging themselves depending on how they respond to pressure?
and why is it that i'm concerned that i've already gained 5 pounds in this pregnancy? this affects everyone and i'm getting super sick of it. so when i saw Tyra Banks call out people who make fun of weight issues, my insides got all warm and fuzzy.
i know sometimes i live in kim world, thinking that one day this world will change, but i do hope we start changing this issue. there is just too much damage in this world to continue to poke fun at one another.
i may not be wafer thin, i may not have perfect hair or the coolest clothes. i may not talk witty or even well at times, i may not drive the coolest car, or wear makeup to cover up my old woman lines and make my eye 'pop'. but ya know what? that shouldn't matter. and i'd love to know why it does.
i'm giving tyra props on this one. and i agree with her.
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