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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