Posted in heads up, self reflection on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m back East for school for the week (sounds weird right? My academic road will be in a post upcoming!). Its, ummmm intense. Hopefully I’ll get stuff posted because there’s QUITE a bit to blog about, but if not, I’ll see you in a week or so!
Posted in anger, feminism on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to this letter, I’ve really started to think about how much I sit back and make the guys in my life NOT accountable at all for their attitudes towards attractiveness and beauty, not to mention general respect for women. Internalized oppression anyone? Its like a black woman in one of my classes put it, “you [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, fat acceptance on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was at the dog park on Saturday, which was amazing. Going to the dog park just puts me in a great mood, everyone is happy, the dogs are happy, you’re outside, life doesn’t get much better. And then, its struck me that there were so many different types of dogs, which meant that people [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
1) your success is measured ULTIMATELY by a number, by a size, by how you look. When weight is your primary goal, how you feel will be in second place
2) you believe that becoming smaller, more compact, less, will make you happier MORE than you believe listening to your body will. And being smaller will [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, self reflection on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my best friends growing up was probably classified as “morbidly obese” by the BMI. I loved horses, and obsessed about them, but having 3 younger siblings, getting out to horse country from our city home was not something my parents put at the top of their priority list. So I spent many hours [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, feminism, food, self reflection, skinny, spirituality on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
While running today, the idea of my story came up. Lately I’ve found myself having flashbacks to moments that had then faded into my history as unremarkable. The moments that have added up to where I am now, mostly dealing with weight, beauty and how and when I learned the things I was “supposed” to [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, food, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That’s my thought for the day… I’m going to try eating and telling myself— this has nothing to do with what size you are. This is just eating. And, I think it really might be true. Because if thin people don’t eat more than fat people, if some people eat chocolate for breakfast, if the [...]
Posted in body image, fat, fat acceptance, self reflection, spirituality on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A person, and teacher, who I admire greatly, once told me that I had “one of the greatest senses of justice” he’d ever encountered. I start with this not in a self-congratulatory way, but to illustrate how intertwined oppression is. I began with sexism, seeing it very truely active in my own white girl life. [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, feminism on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
My FAVORITE monologue from the Vagina Monologues…. “My Short Skirt” by the amazing Eve Ensler
It is not an invitation
a provocation
an indication
that I want it
or give it
or that I hook.
My short skirt
is not begging for it
it does not want you
to rip it off me
or pull it down.
My short skirt
is not a legal reason
for raping me
although it has [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, fat acceptance, feminism on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m super fair- I have strawberry blonde hair and light eyes, lashes and brows. I don’t have freckles, just peachy white white complexion. From the time I was a little girl, I learned that my eyes were “ugly” without mascara… this isn’t something someone told me, but something I deduced from looking around at “beauty.” [...]
