Tag Archives: Body Image
The invisible woman: Part 1
Tweet“What am I if I’m not sexually attractive – am I anything?” ~Ella Dreyfus Aging is terrifying! I have to tell you, the older I get, the crueler the whole thing seems. It’s that evil bastard, time. It just goes too fast. I hadn’t thought about it much until recently, I guess I’ve been on [...]
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How can the desire to feel/be pretty coexist with beauty?
TweetX-posted from Art of the Possible I did not create this image. I found it in a google image search.If this is your image, thanks for making it. Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: beauty and pretty are not the same thing. A conventionally attractive person is no more guaranteed to be beautiful than a [...]
Also tagged Beauty, makeup 4 Comments
Faux-acceptance and representation of fat people in media
TweetToday my sister came over. I came downstairs to find her talking with my mom about some Disney channel show they were allowing my niece to watch. The way they were talking about it, I was wondering why they were letting my niece sit in front of it. They were talking about the fat character [...]
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A note on thin privilege: Alexa Chung is not your friend
TweetAlexa Chung, the British fashion model turned TV host, recently gave an interview in which she responded to criticism she had received over some pictures that she had posted of herself on her Instagram account. The outcry against these pictures (which, for the most part, were really pretty innocuous, depicting, for example, an admittedly skeletal [...]
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