To any loving soul out there...I'd say you're life is yours. Live the way you want, and thus live with the consequences. Accept the crosses you want to carry, dump the ones that no longer serve you, and wave a passing hello to the sunrise, which comes every morning despite how you feel about it.
There is a very bright woman named Naomi Wolf. She's published many books and articles on women, and their body image in western society. I saw her speak once. All her shit makes sense. But when it comes down to you and the mirror and the jeans that fit you six months ago & don't anymore, well...how many of us stop "thinking" and head for the toilet, or the laxitives, or decide that eating is just too overrated and messy? Or, that the frontal lobe of your brain responsibile for whispering all the nasty stuff about how fat you are, is in essence, not as evolutionarily advanced as the scientists insist?
Tons.
So, Naomi asked that what amazing accomplishments have we missed out on, because women who could be analyzing the stock market, writing code, or computing degrees for the hubble telescope are busy counting calories, purging, or spending time in eating disorder treatment facilities? Never mind those that just plain deteriorate and croak?
I'll answer that with how she ended her lecture. A control study was performed on 6 young college students, who were put on one of those "lose 10 lbs in 2 weeks!" diets in the popular (insert name here) women's fashion magazine. Within a week, the students began to obsess bout food, hoard cookbooks, become severely depressed and gradually began to score lower on successive cognative tests. Well, duh, we the all-knowing audience sneered.
Except that these students were initally healthy, 18-21 year old college men.
So I've got rotting teeth, 2 ulcers that I've been warned could be pre-cancerous, raw fingers and a mountain of therapists bills, but goddamit, I WILL fit back into those jeans someday. Because right now, that's all that matters.
To any loving soul out there...I'd say you're life is yours. Live the way you want, and thus live with the consequences. Accept the crosses you want to carry, dump the ones that no longer serve you, and wave a passing hello to the sunrise, which comes every morning despite how you feel about it.
There is a very bright woman named Naomi Wolf. She's published many books and articles on women, and their body image in western society. I saw her speak once. All her shit makes sense. But when it comes down to you and the mirror and the jeans that fit you six months ago & don't anymore, well...how many of us stop "thinking" and head for the toilet, or the laxitives, or decide that eating is just too overrated and messy? Or, that the frontal lobe of your brain responsibile for whispering all the nasty stuff about how fat you are, is in essence, not as evolutionarily advanced as the scientists insist?
Tons.
So, Naomi asked that what amazing accomplishments have we missed out on, because women who could be analyzing the stock market, writing code, or computing degrees for the hubble telescope are busy counting calories, purging, or spending time in eating disorder treatment facilities? Never mind those that just plain deteriorate and croak?
I'll answer that with how she ended her lecture. A control study was performed on 6 young college students, who were put on one of those "lose 10 lbs in 2 weeks!" diets in the popular (insert name here) women's fashion magazine. Within a week, the students began to obsess bout food, hoard cookbooks, become severely depressed and gradually began to score lower on successive cognative tests. Well, duh, we the all-knowing audience sneered.
Except that these students were initally healthy, 18-21 year old college men.
So I've got rotting teeth, 2 ulcers that I've been warned could be pre-cancerous, raw fingers and a mountain of therapists bills, but goddamit, I WILL fit back into those jeans someday. Because right now, that's all that matters.
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OMG. Exactly. exactly exactly. Thank you.
And I had no idea......
Thank you for posting......
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Never think you are alone. So just deal wit it ;)
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