2012年9月11日星期二

Am I weird because of this(among other things)?

We are currently in the part of the fashionable cycle where every size has come full circle.  What I mean is that when I look at the history of costumes the popular silhouette for men and women varies through the years. As my professor puts it things go from one extreme to the next in fashion. Meaning that if skirt hems start rising, never fear because they will drop back down eventually. No biggie. We’ve been S-shaped, boyish/tubular, more flared with smaller waists, hour glass shaped, back to slim and so on and so forth.  This brings me back to today. I know I’m the only 90s baby disturbed at seeing this particular fashion cycle repeated so early in our lifetime. I mean seriously women my age ( early 20s) are wearing the same thing my mom was wearing in my baby pics.  Now we try to appeal to all body types.  There’s always something about what a “real woman” looks like. She’s not thin or skinny according to more voluptuous women.  She’s isn’t fat or fluffy according to smaller women.  My thing is don’t we all have ovaries for crying out loud! If you are in fact in existence and have the proud stamp of an XX chromosome you are in fact a REAL WOMAN.
I’m sick of this divisiveness between us.  When is it going to end?  When do we stop putting one group down to glorify the other? Everyone is their own unique brand of beauty and it’s time we accept that .
I spent my entire teen years obsessing over being thick, attempting to binge eat, and hating myself because my body wasn’t like the women in King magazine.  Never again….Having people make comments about my body that made me uncomfortable and most of them came from women.  Like I need to eat something or I must never eat.  I’m not even that small! I don’t look emaciated and I’m healthy (as far as I know). There’s no need to insult me to make yourself feel better or anyone different from you for that matter.  Who cares what the average woman’s size is? It doesn’t matter if its my size or larger, marketers would STILL show images of something that could be viewed as different or more desirable than who I am to sell their product.  That’ just real shit.
Take control of your image and your own brand of beauty and sell the hell out of YOURSELF.  Yes I know you are plagued with images on a daily basis that tell you otherwise but you have to know it for yourself. YOU…ARE…BEAUTIFUl.
                                               by  adventuresochake

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