 | | 2015-01-12 22:12
From blog My Kingdom for a Hat
why i don’t write about body image
I’ve always found the mainstream media fairly easy to ignore. I never internalized images of women smoother and slimmer than I. They weren’t personal, you know? I understood implicitly that they were just doing their thing, or trying to sell me something. That they weren’t targeting me from on high. What did needle at me was their counterpoint. “Love your body” rhetoric was much more pointed. “Hey you. You with the body. Did you know everyone hates it? Did you know that our entire society wants you to fail?”
Until then, it had never occurred to me to construe slender women in advertisements as an attack on my self-image....
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