01-06-2011, 19:45
Thank you for sharing that article. These were my favorite two from the site:
35) Breasts probably have a wider range of natural healthy variation than any other body part... and we seem to be trying to forget this. If we act as if only one subset of the range of variation is good -- as the entertainment and advertising industries are currently doing -- we condone and reinforce a mindset that says ordinary people are defective. We distort our sense of what is normal and end up treating healthy people (including ourselves) as if they were pitiable freaks. Every additional person who gets that surgery adds to the marginalization of those who don't.
36) Treating your own normal body as being defective is an act of self-hatred. (That doesn't mean you feel hatred for yourself... but one thing I've learned in life is that the way you feel about yourself is as much a result of such actions as a cause of them.) Acting on this in a public way and flaunting the results before everyone rubs this off on other people; it becomes not only self-hatred but an act that carries disrespect to other women. You're like Michael Jackson bleaching his skin and having his nose narrowed -- the message that sends to other African-Americans is hardly a positive one.)
I felt I identified most with these two. I myself feel insulted and nauseated by women with breast implants for this reason. It is a disrespectful slap to the face of the female sex.
35) Breasts probably have a wider range of natural healthy variation than any other body part... and we seem to be trying to forget this. If we act as if only one subset of the range of variation is good -- as the entertainment and advertising industries are currently doing -- we condone and reinforce a mindset that says ordinary people are defective. We distort our sense of what is normal and end up treating healthy people (including ourselves) as if they were pitiable freaks. Every additional person who gets that surgery adds to the marginalization of those who don't.
36) Treating your own normal body as being defective is an act of self-hatred. (That doesn't mean you feel hatred for yourself... but one thing I've learned in life is that the way you feel about yourself is as much a result of such actions as a cause of them.) Acting on this in a public way and flaunting the results before everyone rubs this off on other people; it becomes not only self-hatred but an act that carries disrespect to other women. You're like Michael Jackson bleaching his skin and having his nose narrowed -- the message that sends to other African-Americans is hardly a positive one.)
I felt I identified most with these two. I myself feel insulted and nauseated by women with breast implants for this reason. It is a disrespectful slap to the face of the female sex.