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Welcome to our very first blog post!
So my bud and I decided to get some much needed fresh air and headed to the park one crisp morning. There were men, women and children(shouldn't they have been at school?). So many people and everyone with different body shapes, aesthetics and age. Thin women, fat women, average sized women, tall women, short women, pears, apples and oranges.
Thinspiration is a scary word and it is surprising how much pressure I feel to be a size 2(not 0-that's just gross). Then there is the other side that believes that "real women have curves" and "all shapes must be celebrated". I look around me and I see fat women/girls being sneered at and made fun of for not being the societies version of "thin". So who decides if I am "healthy" "beautiful" and "thin enough"?
A good friend of mine faces the rudest kind of judgement from men who are potential mates. "Not thin enough"; my 10 year old cousin was called "moti" by her maths teacher. On the other side another friend is regularly told that she is too thin and looks like a child. We as women are in this constant battle with the society and with ourselves - I am good the way I am. Although, after years of comments and judgement the belief gets more and more shaky. And so starts the battle to please people, the constant dieting, the weight gainers, hormone treatment for increasing height, breasts or butt.
I have recently decided that I will not participate in this war. After being at war with myself for years, I still find myself admiring women who are thinner than me and feeling pity for the fat ones. I now try to stop myself from judging people based on their body shape. Fat= lazy, dirty, Thin=pretty, role model.
Here is a great essay from Robin Lawley the "plus" size model (she is only a size 10) on the daily beast. Read it, her writing skills are much better than mine and communicate the judgement she faces as a plus size model. Here is the link http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/28/robyn-lawley-why-the-dangerous-thigh-gap-trend-makes-me-mad.html
Btw, did you guys know that there is a size 00. Meaning smaller than 0, most models are this size.
I dont want to be a size 00 or a 0. I do want to fit into a lbd from 2 years ago by the end of this year. I decide.
Welcome to our very first blog post!
So my bud and I decided to get some much needed fresh air and headed to the park one crisp morning. There were men, women and children(shouldn't they have been at school?). So many people and everyone with different body shapes, aesthetics and age. Thin women, fat women, average sized women, tall women, short women, pears, apples and oranges.
Thinspiration is a scary word and it is surprising how much pressure I feel to be a size 2(not 0-that's just gross). Then there is the other side that believes that "real women have curves" and "all shapes must be celebrated". I look around me and I see fat women/girls being sneered at and made fun of for not being the societies version of "thin". So who decides if I am "healthy" "beautiful" and "thin enough"?
A good friend of mine faces the rudest kind of judgement from men who are potential mates. "Not thin enough"; my 10 year old cousin was called "moti" by her maths teacher. On the other side another friend is regularly told that she is too thin and looks like a child. We as women are in this constant battle with the society and with ourselves - I am good the way I am. Although, after years of comments and judgement the belief gets more and more shaky. And so starts the battle to please people, the constant dieting, the weight gainers, hormone treatment for increasing height, breasts or butt.
I have recently decided that I will not participate in this war. After being at war with myself for years, I still find myself admiring women who are thinner than me and feeling pity for the fat ones. I now try to stop myself from judging people based on their body shape. Fat= lazy, dirty, Thin=pretty, role model.
Here is a great essay from Robin Lawley the "plus" size model (she is only a size 10) on the daily beast. Read it, her writing skills are much better than mine and communicate the judgement she faces as a plus size model. Here is the link http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/28/robyn-lawley-why-the-dangerous-thigh-gap-trend-makes-me-mad.html
Btw, did you guys know that there is a size 00. Meaning smaller than 0, most models are this size.
I dont want to be a size 00 or a 0. I do want to fit into a lbd from 2 years ago by the end of this year. I decide.
