Isn't procrastination fun?
I was bouncing around the fatosphere, as I am wont to do. The blogger at My Improvisational Life made this post:
I once asked the put forth a question in a community of women I am a part of - what would happen if tomorrow morning everyone woke up and stopped hating herself? The answers I got shocked me to the core. Most women talked about how terrible it would be - how we would all “let ourselves go” and how unhealthy we would all become, as if the end of self-hatred would mean a neverending diet of ice cream and potato chips, and none of us would ever get up off the couch, or even out of bed, according to what those women were saying. It strikes me as backwards and disturbing that so many women view self-hatred, shame, and external pressures about their opinions as a primary motivator to take care of themselves. It also disturbs me that so many women view restriction diets as “good” and giving their bodies the food they need as “bad”.
See this shocked me-- probably unsurprisingly, seeing how oblivious I am in general to the way "normal women" are supposed to think.
Is this what "normal" is? I can't think that most of my friends think this way, and I wonder if it's just because I don't know a lt of y'all well enough, or whether there's something about the women who end up in fandom that we're all a little bit skewed or "unusual". (Yeah, yeah. Most of my friends are in fandom. You can all laugh at the loser now.) Or maybe just that the people who end up friends with me aren't the types to think that sort of thing.
What do y'all think about this?
I once asked the put forth a question in a community of women I am a part of - what would happen if tomorrow morning everyone woke up and stopped hating herself? The answers I got shocked me to the core. Most women talked about how terrible it would be - how we would all “let ourselves go” and how unhealthy we would all become, as if the end of self-hatred would mean a neverending diet of ice cream and potato chips, and none of us would ever get up off the couch, or even out of bed, according to what those women were saying. It strikes me as backwards and disturbing that so many women view self-hatred, shame, and external pressures about their opinions as a primary motivator to take care of themselves. It also disturbs me that so many women view restriction diets as “good” and giving their bodies the food they need as “bad”.
See this shocked me-- probably unsurprisingly, seeing how oblivious I am in general to the way "normal women" are supposed to think.
Is this what "normal" is? I can't think that most of my friends think this way, and I wonder if it's just because I don't know a lt of y'all well enough, or whether there's something about the women who end up in fandom that we're all a little bit skewed or "unusual". (Yeah, yeah. Most of my friends are in fandom. You can all laugh at the loser now.) Or maybe just that the people who end up friends with me aren't the types to think that sort of thing.
What do y'all think about this?