Ranting about women's self-esteem

[joewriteshaikus]

A friend of mine linked this article in her livejournal. I liked the article very much and commented that I would post it to

Comments

[outdoorchica]

Ha, people in my office when they're feeling whiney say "baby me!!" and it's actually pretty funny.

I like the article. I have actually cut myself off from a lot of the "shame on you for not being a supermodel" media and it's refreshing. No TV, I stopped reading Cosmo and all that drivel. Especially those celebrity magazines... with the way they pick at every 1lb weight gain or loss in the hollywood peeps, what are they teaching their readers about how they should judge themselves?? It's sickening. Anyway, I highly recommend the magazine Adbusters not necessarily for improved body image... but for analyzing how subtle and not-so-subtle media tactics can sabotage your sanity.

I have struggled for a long time about being OK with my body... but more and more I have learned that I've been built short and solid ("I'm a little teapot!") and if I tried to look long and lithe it wouldn't happen. Plus I have been finding beauty in non-traditionally beautiful people more and more lately... I appreciate the unique features that make someone who they are, even if it's a long nose or a curvaceous booty. Anyway... thanks so much for posting that article. Joe ROCKS!!!

[joewriteshaikus]

Yeah, you know, I always did find you attractive. Since you're such a player, I'm guessing I'm not the only one who likes your body type.

[outdoorchica]

awwww, thanks! I have recently written a poem about my butt, since I don't have a flat-white-girl butt and one of the lines is "my ass is the office of multicultural affairs." Ok, I thought it was amusing :)

[joewriteshaikus]

I should like to read this poem.

[joewriteshaikus]

Perhaps I should see this butt too, to understand the poem better.

[outdoorchica]

oh my gosh, joe, how many women can you flirt with in one journal entry??? HONESTLY!!!