Just a recommended reading this morning :) made my monday morning!
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/bikini/model-kate-dillon-speaks-out-about-being-too-skinny-too-plus-size-and-whats-up-with-the-crystal-controversy-2015056/
and such a lovely photo! The healthy female body is lovely!
http://www.judgmentofparis.com/kd/elle01.jpg
Monday, July 19, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
The Cost and Responsibility of Freedom
I was thinking this weekend how much Freedom costs and how we take it for granted. We don't always truly stop to appreciate how our freedom as Americans was fought for and died for. How we have certain freedoms (e.g., freedom to worship as we wish, freedom of speech, free education, and separation of church and state) that without these freedoms life would be very very hard.
But as women (I do realize I tend to write with a female slant, I do understand there are men with EDs, I think this post may be female oriented though my apologies to any male readers), we have particular freedoms as well that were fought for over time. Freedom to vote, to own property. Freedom to think differently from your husband. These particular freedoms lead to the ability to have a career and not be dependent on a man. Freedom from styles of clothing that restricted health and movement and over emphasized the female form. The freedom to exercise in a healthy fashion. The freedom to practice birth control and to control when one WOULD have intercourse and whether or not it would lead to a pregnancy. The life of a woman in America was fought for by women who were concerned about the well-being of their daughters and their daughters daughters. That is a legacy that we should strive to uphold in their honor. Just as American's we should uphold the freedoms fought for us by our ancestors and fight for their protections.
Submitting to social pressures to look a certain way in order to wear certain clothing which is restricting or overemphasizes a particular area of the body, submitting to pressure to attract a man, or emphasizing ones appearance over ones true value in the world (your mind, heart, and your capacities to create and build).... all of these are critical mistakes which do not honor the legacy that we were given.
Women like Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Eleanore Roosevelt have changed the world for women, and they didn't do it by worrying about their weight and their looks!!!!
But as women (I do realize I tend to write with a female slant, I do understand there are men with EDs, I think this post may be female oriented though my apologies to any male readers), we have particular freedoms as well that were fought for over time. Freedom to vote, to own property. Freedom to think differently from your husband. These particular freedoms lead to the ability to have a career and not be dependent on a man. Freedom from styles of clothing that restricted health and movement and over emphasized the female form. The freedom to exercise in a healthy fashion. The freedom to practice birth control and to control when one WOULD have intercourse and whether or not it would lead to a pregnancy. The life of a woman in America was fought for by women who were concerned about the well-being of their daughters and their daughters daughters. That is a legacy that we should strive to uphold in their honor. Just as American's we should uphold the freedoms fought for us by our ancestors and fight for their protections.
Submitting to social pressures to look a certain way in order to wear certain clothing which is restricting or overemphasizes a particular area of the body, submitting to pressure to attract a man, or emphasizing ones appearance over ones true value in the world (your mind, heart, and your capacities to create and build).... all of these are critical mistakes which do not honor the legacy that we were given.
Women like Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Eleanore Roosevelt have changed the world for women, and they didn't do it by worrying about their weight and their looks!!!!
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