| Last night I went to visit
About Face to see if
anything was new in the gallery since the last time I visited.
I got really wigged at this one
model chickie. She was across separate galleries for different things but it
looks like it is the same woman to me. Clothed, she looks painfully thin to me.
This freaks me out. But looking at her in underwear, that flips me out even
more. Yow!
This doesn't make me feel like she
is fit.
I bought an issue of Mode to see
what that was all about. I've never bought that before. I think it is great. It
was nice to see that women who are plus-sized can have a fashion magazine and
have pretty things and clothes. Ok. Many kudos for trying to balance those
other fashion magazines out that exclude that target group.
But that's still not fit.
Why is it so hard for me to find a
picture of a fit woman?!
Not like professional athlete fit.
Seen those.
I mean like ordinary person fit?
Person who is not a professional athlete -- regular person with a regular sort
of job, probably regular life problems like dealing with kids or dealing with
finding time for herself or something. But who is fit in a regular sort of way.
It's starting to piss me off.
I don't even know why.
[...]
Lie, I do know why.
I am pseudo moderating a girls
board and I am trying to get into their minds. I am trying to take a look at
the world through their eyes. I am trying to read the stuff they like to read
-- Mode, Seventeen, Jane, Glamour, etc.
All this stuff I normally don't
read.
Stuff I don't read because
it isn't real.
And then when I am looking at it
now, trying to understand these girls and why they might feel the way the do, I
just get all pissed off for them. They are nice girls, just stressing out over
the usual adolescent freak outs.
But there's no just regular normal
fit women for them to look at to help them form a better, bigger, more
comprehensive picture of womanhood and what it might look like across the
board.
Where can I tell them to go look
to see more examples that they are ok the way they are?! That they look normal,
and they will finish growing up and still look normal!?
Grrrrr. Ok, time to visit BUST to
start to feel sane again.
~Astrophe
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