Posted by Jaynee on February 22, 2004, at 22:03:13
In reply to Re: It does seem to be a struggle, posted by Karen_kay on February 22, 2004, at 15:14:29
Your post really hit a nerve. Why is it that weight is such a destructive issue for most women. Most my teen years and adult life, I've always told myself if only.....if only I was 10 pounds lighter. I am 6ft tall and I weighed 130 pounds, and even then I would tell myself I needed to lose weight. I sure don't weight that now. Society has screwed us all up so much. I refuse to buy fashion magazines, and I won't allow some Misogynist male who wants all women to look like little boys dictate to me, what is supposed to be beautiful. As far as I'm concerned that is who is running the fashion industry. The most ridiculous industry going.
Why do we insist on hating ourselves because we don't look a certain way, or maybe it is just an excuse to hate ourselves and if it wasn't the weight issue it would be something else that we would hate ourselves about. Maybe we just have to try to truly love ourselves and forget what the TV and magazines tell us, and ignore the message we are being sent, because we respect ourselves too much to let some money grabbing #$%^#%'s try and sell more cream, weightloss books, weightloss pills, plastic surgery, slimming clothes, etc.......
Just my two bits.
poster:Jaynee
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