Court Vision Ep. | Body Image
"high maintenance to be low maintenance" is NONSENSE | Internet Analysis
youtu.be1st Layer - Society has an absolutely unrealistic expectation of women, especially regarding “preserving” your youth & beauty & achieving the “ideal.”
2nd Layer - Add in being a beach or indoor athlete that perpetuates the “ideal” as well. Yikes. Rife territory for body image issues.
How Common Are Eating Disorders Among Fashion Models?
It says in the article that many models are dangerously unweight, which implies that their thinness is a direct contribution to their health (or lack thereof). Models are supposed to be the ideal in Western society. The thinnest & prettiest of us all. Yet, they aren’t even healthy? So, what’s the point of achieving this ideal if you are essentially sacrificing your humanity, your full essence, to achieve it? What is it that we are missing here? Is it that we have a deep desire to be loved, appreciated, admired to the point of irrational behavior? Are we so desperate to be accepted that we sacrifice ourselves in the process?
Student-athletes in women’s and men’s sports report stark difference in perceptions of weight and body image - NCAA.org
Athlete Body Image and Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review of Their Association and Influencing Factors
as if writing or thinking about your body as a woman is just another thing you can do, an “obsession” as morally neutral and freely available as any other, and as if the only possible factor problematizing one’s engagement with that obsession is that it’s not seen as respectable enough by masculine society. This isn’t satisfying to me, somehow.
-Ra
... See moreI read this as “Women’s obsession to achieve the ideal isn’t even respected by men & society…” I’d recommend researching this quote more though to see if this is the case.
Maybe the question isn’t “How do I want to look?” but “How do I want to feel?” or “What goal am I trying to achieve here?” and make intentional decisions about that in a non-obsessive way. Make systems that work from a place of love, rather than one of shame because to be honest it’s not conducive to building lasting change for yourself. Shame
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