Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, college, feminism on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
So, an 18 year old dies from voluntary surgery, a breast augmentation to be exact.
“doctors believe Kuleba died of a rare and potentially deadly genetic reaction to general anesthesia known as malignant hyperthermia”
Ok so a few bones to pick with this one. First, every girl, and every woman, has the right to do whatever the [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, fashion, female sports, feminism, racism on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m actually spitting fire right now. So I’ll just post the images from Vogue’s supermodel/athlete shoot. No female athletes.
Posted in beauty ideal, female sports, politics, racism on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Check this out
The cover of April Vogue will feature Giselle and Lebron. She looks waifish, carefree- he looks intense and menacing. Ummm HELLO! Earth to Vogue! RACIAL AND GENDER STEREOTYPES! As though I needed another reason to stop reading the magazine. Why can’t fashion get its act together? I miss it.
By the way, this is [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, self reflection, spirituality on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Two things happened yesterday. 1) I actually began to KNOW that if I was skinnier, I wouldn’t be happier or better. I knew it intellectually, I knew it, but I hadn’t yet REALLY had it penetrate into my real knowing. Its an amazing feeling. I could see myself as that much smaller, and knew that all [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, eating disorder, fat acceptance, self reflection on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
About a year ago. For years, I had swung between really caring that I couldn’t break my nasty, ugly habit (old words I used to describe my nails) and occasionally ceasing to notice, and thus ceasing to bite. I came up with theories about WHEN and WHY I would bite them, the traditional stuff about being stressed, [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat acceptance, feminism, food, obesity epidemic, skinny on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I’m working on this paper for school, actually I’ll call it a project because that seems less daunting and academic. From my first run in’s with all this body image stuff, lots of things have held tension for me. Eating, hunger and weight loss are particularly (obviously) hot spots. After a couple years of dealing with [...]
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 [...]
