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~Stuff I pinned at my TIAW and Wisdom boards.
~Mina shared this over at TIAW’s Facebook page and I’m so glad she did. It’s beautiful. It’s all about feeling too fat to be photographed and why you should consider doing that anyway.
~Here’s a pretty funny article about hairless ladybits written by a doctor.
~Excuse me for a minute while I use more bad language than usual: What the fuck is this shit? The administrators of a Catholic high school required all the female students to take an oath that they would not use cuss words. But they declare that it’s not a double standard? The fuck it’s not. They want “ladies to act like ladies” and they hope the “improved manners would take hold and rub off on the boys”. Um? Isn’t that a little bit like the whole “act like a lady so men treat you like one” thing we’re trying to move past right now? Why can’t we fucking expect men to just act like men? Because they are grown-ups, too (or, in this case, they are practicing to be grown-ups). In this article, a male student says it’s unattractive when girls cuss (fuck that shit, dude) but that he doesn’t expect to stop soon. If you can’t tell by this paragraph, I’d probably have gotten myself into big trouble if my high school had implemented such a policy only on girls. /Overuse of bad words.
~WTG, Nigella! But also? Have we come to the point where someone has to fight to keep that slight curve from being photoshopped away? And that it’s heroic for her to fight for her own body? I mean. Absolutely she should fight for it. But it shouldn’t be an issue. Shit like this should NOT need heroism. I feel like I just fell into some sort of lame dystopian novel.
~It’s like a bunch of Ken dolls in really lovely lingerie.
~This post is amazing. Really. It just shifted my perspective on the whole fat acceptance movement a little bit and I’m going to sit and think about this a lot now.
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~Stuff I pinned on my TIAW and Wisdom boards.
~When satire is more true than we wish it was.
~Celebrities and photoshop, but not how you think. I’m sharing this, not because I know whether these photos are or are not photoshopped, but because these normal women’s bodies (whoever they belong to) are not, actually the bodies of 80 or 90-year-old women. It bothers me, not only because cellulite is considered to make you look older, but also that looking older is such a horrible thing. Those bodies look like many bodies of women in their 30’s. And they look GOOD. And you know what? As they age, and when they reach 90, they will STILL look good, even if it’s a different kind of good.
~Fat Sex <-- A very cool article that talks frankly about how sex is different with different-sized people.
~How to deal with a mansplainer, starring Hillary Clinton in gifs.
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I love that image above of Bethany Hamilton and the actress who played her. I love how very different people can be. Two, beautiful woman, standing next to each other, at either and of the spectrum. Amazing.
On to the other stuff!
~Stuff I pinned at my TIAW and Wisdom boards.
~This story has gone viral this week: school administrators in St. Louis have told a sixth grader to get a breast reduction to make the bullies stop picking on her. I mean. Wow. Wrong on so many levels. But the core issue is, once again, blaming the victim, and supporting the bullies.
~Want to be a CEO? Better have the right BMI. Cause everyone knows fatties can’t be intelligent, capable people. /sarcasm.
~From an article about skin-bleaching: “Black people are seen as dangerous; that’s why I don’t like being black. People treat me better now because I look like I’m white.” Essentially I see this as the same story as the first one in this roundup. Heck. All three of these stories have a basis in the same thing: If you don’t look the way I want you to, I’ll make you feel like shit until you change the way you look. GAH.
~It’s like this week’s Awesome is writing itself. Here’s an article about meaning versus happiness. Happiness is temporary. Meaning may come from difficulties and may not feel happy at all, but is, ultimately, more rewarding. Looking for a quick fix in a breast reduction or skin bleaching isn’t going to actually STOP the bullies. We have to suffer through a lot of hard work while we FIX this problem. Which is the entire premise of SOAM and TIAW.
~And on a very different note, in honor of Roe v. Wade’s 40th anniversary this week, here’s a very personal story about the abortion decision.
