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Your Body Might Not Be Perfect
But it’s not defective either.
Fat acceptance is great and all, but I love my boyfriend and I want him to be excited, aroused and attracted to me. Sorry, that might mean that I have to hit the gym and forego the fries, ladies. I’m OK with that.
Gosh, I can almost hear you screaming…Patriarchy! It he loved you he would accept you. Et cetera.
Yeah, it’s so hard being a woman…bla bla.
I remember once in my Freshman comp class, they had this big thick text book. And in the book were contemporary articles about culture. I started counting. There were about forty articles in this one text book that in one way or another were about how hard it is to be a woman in this patriarchy.
Many of those, more than ten, were about body image.
Apparently, it’s the media who cause women to feel bad about their bodies — thanks Dove.
Yeah, I don’ t buy that either.
I’ve studied ancient Rome. You know what the ladies were obsessed with in ancient Rome — make-up, beauty, fashion. Looking beautiful. Like 24–7. That’s all they talked about, that’s all they wrote about.
And there was no Instagram, there was no TV. There were no ads.
