I sat and dreamed at the foot of your bed

[i_llbedammned]

So I will stop by for a quick feminist rant

Comments

[katemacetak]

Yeah, there's a pic on Tumblr that has a picture of Marilyn Monroe and says when did beauty go from THIS (Marilyn) to THIS (pic of skinny sorority girl or whatever). I hate the "real girls are curvy" thing anyway, as well as the idea that you can't be insecure if you are skinny. I'm skinny, but also flat chested and short, so definitely don't fit the 36-24-36 thing. In my opinion that is as harmful as the 6 foot tall, rail thin model look.

[i_llbedammned]

Yeah, striving to match a body type that isn't your own is not pleasant, no matter who you are.

[ragnarok_08]

I get tired of having to counsel people away from anorexia and overworking out to make sure that they don't drive themselves into a hole trying to get to this tiny twig sized thing.

I totally agree with you there!

[i_llbedammned]

Yeah the over working out one is always the one that sneaks up on people.

[meri_sielu]

Yes! This! There's all these comments and posts about how Marilyn Monroe was a size 16.... she probably was but a 16 back then is not the same as a 16 now! I'm a 36, 32, 38 and proud!

[i_llbedammned]

Damn right. People of all body types should be proud of what they are!

[icecoldrain]

Eh, she is not the reason why we have unrealistic body standards. There have always been unrealistic body standards for women. Marilyn Monroe just happened to be someone that had/has a coveted body style, however natural or unnatural it was. Thus, her body style feeds into one of the many unrealistic body standards that we have for women. It was there before her, it was there when she was alive, and it was there after her. The problem is is that society has always had an image that they expect women to meet regardless of how healthy or unhealthy it is for many people to reach that image. Other people latch onto a body style that is simply not their own and spend their lives trying to obtain it. It's sad and it needs to change, but she is not the reason behind the problem

[i_llbedammned]

Women have always had unrealistic body standards, but she is the reason why the current ideal of "36,24,36, exists. She is not the root of all the problems, but the current reason why everybody latched on to those number specifically.

[luisaligan]

I wholeheartedly agree!

I've recently become really irritated with comments regarding people's bums. It seems it's the most popular body part recently. Ugh, there's stuff on the internet which, to me, sounds an inch short of body shaming. Stuff like "squat, because nobody ever wrote a song about a small butt". Who gives a damn? While I put great emphasis on health and fitness myself, I often feel saddened by the ridiculously high standards that women nowadays aspire to look like. There's so many outrageously gorgeous women in media, whether naturally or with the help of a scalpel, etc., that there's a huge pressure to desire to look like them. But it is obsessive, and unrealistic, to wish to look like someone else. At the end of the day, the best we can do is try to nurture and look after our bodies to look the best way *we* can look like.

On a side note, when I was younger, I was similar in weight and waist size as you, and everybody thought I was 'too skinny' *rolls eyes* you can't win!

[i_llbedammned]

To me there is a difference between trying to be healthy and fit and trying to work yourself into a shape that you saw in a magazine. What if the body type they are aiming for is not the type that your body can fit into?

And yeah, no matter what someone will be there to criticize.