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splendorbug's latest entry made me remember that EVERYONE needs to read The Good Body by Eve Ensler. (Side note: she's the woman behind The Vagina Monologues on Broadway.) EVERY WOMAN ALIVE NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK. MEN TOO. It's about how every woman's body is "good" and every woman is "beautiful" and we don't need to suck out our crurves with medical garden hoses, or tighten up our southern orifices so that sex seems more virginal, and we don't need to dice up, re-allign, inject, and zap our faces so that they look more like the plastic doll heads they practice makeup on in beauty colleges. We need to excersize for health and not for our goal of being 84 pounds. They asked men: Curves are SEXY! Thrusting the shit out of a jagged skin-bag of bones is NOT. GO FIGURE, LADIES!
Mainstream makes me mad as much as it makes me unpretty. It should anger all the rest of the 100% of women that it unbeautifies as well. Yep. 100%. Because even the most standardly gorgeous of us will never think they're pretty enough.
So thanks, oh, who to blame. Hollywood? Hollywood. Thanks for the scars. For the deficiencies that we will invariably give our daughters the way they were given to us. Thanks for the impossible standards and ridiculous expectations. Thanks for the fear and the anger and the depression and the self-hate. Thanks for even dreaming up surgury on one's vagina. Thanks for taking the beauty out of being the woman and putting it into being a fucking barbie doll.
But I am dead serious. The Good Body by Eve Ensler. Quick read. Life-changing. Empowering. TRUE.