Watch out - body image rant ahead!
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logansrogueOkay. So you ALL know how I feel about body image, about what women should feel. They should feel comfortable with their natural form. Curves are great. Yada yada yada! You know the drill.
A lot of the time on ONTD people put up the latest pictures of some celeb and say "OMG they're TOO FUCKING THIN!" and people say "GROSS!" and "HOW can they do that to themselves?!"
Then someone - EVERY TIME - some person will pop up and say "Hey, I'm thin! People tell me to eat all the time! I hate it when people do that! People can be naturally skinny, you know!"
Yeah, we know, we fucking KNOW already. But you know what? Shut up. This isn't about you. This isn't about you and your skinny little body that God gave you naturally. You're thin? Congratulations. People give you a hard time about it? Well fuck, I can't find jeans I can fit properly cause my waist is too thin and my arse is too curved. Do you see me bitching and whining about it at every opportunity?
What shits me is these people take it personally when people TRY to address a very real and very terrible problem. People are hurting themselves, STARVING themselves, to look like what the media touts as the 'ideal'. This isn't about you being skinny. It's about people that AREN'T skinny TRYING to be.
When someone is naturally skinny - yes, they look fabulous. They have their own look and it's wonderful.
But you tell me that Nicole Richie doesn't look like death walking. If you expect me to say "Naturally skinny is beautiful, and so is Nicole", you're in la-la land, cause it's not happening.
Personally? No, I don't find extremely skinny people all that attractive, male or female. There are some people I know that carry it so gracefully that I think they're beautiful. People I know in real life, and actual celebs.
For the most part, though, I don't notice really skinny people. I don't MEAN to be like that, it's just my natural evolutionary tendency to notice people who have a body that in natural terms say "I have had plenty to eat, I'm very healthy, I am a good specimen to mate with." It's in my natural coding. I'm sorry about that.
That said, I do have a naturally skinny comic character - Lilita. Though, she IS an alien. LOL.
A lot of the time on ONTD people put up the latest pictures of some celeb and say "OMG they're TOO FUCKING THIN!" and people say "GROSS!" and "HOW can they do that to themselves?!"
Then someone - EVERY TIME - some person will pop up and say "Hey, I'm thin! People tell me to eat all the time! I hate it when people do that! People can be naturally skinny, you know!"
Yeah, we know, we fucking KNOW already. But you know what? Shut up. This isn't about you. This isn't about you and your skinny little body that God gave you naturally. You're thin? Congratulations. People give you a hard time about it? Well fuck, I can't find jeans I can fit properly cause my waist is too thin and my arse is too curved. Do you see me bitching and whining about it at every opportunity?
What shits me is these people take it personally when people TRY to address a very real and very terrible problem. People are hurting themselves, STARVING themselves, to look like what the media touts as the 'ideal'. This isn't about you being skinny. It's about people that AREN'T skinny TRYING to be.
When someone is naturally skinny - yes, they look fabulous. They have their own look and it's wonderful.
But you tell me that Nicole Richie doesn't look like death walking. If you expect me to say "Naturally skinny is beautiful, and so is Nicole", you're in la-la land, cause it's not happening.
Personally? No, I don't find extremely skinny people all that attractive, male or female. There are some people I know that carry it so gracefully that I think they're beautiful. People I know in real life, and actual celebs.
For the most part, though, I don't notice really skinny people. I don't MEAN to be like that, it's just my natural evolutionary tendency to notice people who have a body that in natural terms say "I have had plenty to eat, I'm very healthy, I am a good specimen to mate with." It's in my natural coding. I'm sorry about that.
That said, I do have a naturally skinny comic character - Lilita. Though, she IS an alien. LOL.
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Date: 2006-04-07 07:33 pm (UTC)You know you could do a whole Pscyhology thesis using the show American Idol as reference. Mandisa was critisized for being big, Taylor Hicks because he's completely gray at 29, Elliot Yamin has an awesome voice..but doesnt have the 'hollywood' look. Yet with all that..I'm still drawn to the show like a fucking train wreck. LoL.
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Date: 2006-04-08 06:30 am (UTC)As far as being drawn to Idol goes - it's nice to see people go from every day Joes and then up somewhere where they put a part of themselves out that, up until that point, nobody else has been able to see. It's the same reason why I go to karaoke. There's something that happens to a person when they're on stage. You see their true bravery and soul.
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Date: 2006-04-08 06:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-08 06:41 am (UTC)I swear. I'd have big long baths where I listen to Loreena McKennitt and groovy loose music.
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Date: 2006-04-08 06:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-08 07:47 am (UTC)