DISABLED BODY POSITIVE ART?!
Fuck yeah!!!
“You aren’t on our minds, and we don’t care what you think is attractive or unattractive. We aren’t trying to be beautiful for you. If we were, we’d walk around in Victoria’s Secret fashion show lingerie all the time… actually, that would be kinda fun.”
I love this video.
Click through to watch the video too, it is brilliant.
(Although an additional point needs to be made that sadly many people, particularly women, do feel pressured to dress for others instead of for themselves. People do wear make-up, and wear certain clothes, and have cosmetic surgery to fit in with the very narrow standard we’re told is “beautiful”. People also do these things because they themselves think they’re beautiful and that’s how they want their body to look.
Body mods and beauty practices aren’t the problem, the pressure for people to conform to a certain set of standards is. - Becca)
Body positivity: fight your demons
Two things I wish I’d known when I was a teenager, and that are often still hard to remember today.
- People are going to have all sorts of opinions about how you look, there is nothing you can do to control this, so it’s pointless trying to.
- The only person whose opinion matters about how you look is your own. Don’t rely on other people to give you worth, they won’t always be there.
My diet industry video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ham4JZXf-rw
This Dame:
Tumblr: http://somekindofbecca.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/beccarothwell
Reblogging for those who weren’t awake at 1am (where were you, sleeping?!)
Body positivity: fight your demons
Two things I wish I’d known when I was a teenager, and that are often still hard to remember today.
- People are going to have all sorts of opinions about how you look, there is nothing you can do to control this, so it’s pointless trying to.
- The only person whose opinion matters about how you look is your own. Don’t rely on other people to give you worth, they won’t always be there.
My diet industry video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ham4JZXf-rw
This Dame:
Tumblr: http://somekindofbecca.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/beccarothwell
My body-posi CV
Surprise! Holly here as Becca has been fighting the forces of patriarchy all day over at our tumblr (link below). This is just a little story of how I got to where I am now. Where I am now is sort of okay but I’m still trying.
Links!
Killing us softly 4, a lecture that you have to watch: http://www.riseupfilms.com/1/post/2012/03/killing-us-softly-4-advertisings-im…
This Dame:
Tumblr: http://tgandthetwins.tumblr.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missraaae
