First I have added some excerpt from it:
(About the teenage years:) With all of the attention, we don’t have much time (or the privacy) to connect to our own sexuality because we are now sex objects, and our focus shifts from our own desires, to our desirability.
“She buys into the myth that her sexuality comes from being ‘beautiful’ rather than understanding that her beauty comes from her sexuality.”
When people say they want to lose weight, they often mean I want to be respected. I want to be loved. I want to be seen. I want liberation from fear and self-loathing. Weight-loss culture will never give us those things because it is founded on fear/hate-based systems like sexism, racism, classism and ableism.
We don’t know — as a culture, as a gender, as individuals, you and I. The fact that we don’t know is feminism’s one true failure. We claimed the agency, we granted ourselves the authority, we gathered the accolades, but we never stopped worrying about how our asses looked in our jeans. There are a lot of reasons for this, a whole bunch of big sexist things we can rightfully blame. But ultimately, like anything, the change is up to us.
Read the whole article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-kinavey-dana-sturtevant/the-not-so-sexy-origins-of-body-shame_b_7185210.html?fb_action_ids=707478887384&fb_action_types=og.shares
(About the teenage years:) With all of the attention, we don’t have much time (or the privacy) to connect to our own sexuality because we are now sex objects, and our focus shifts from our own desires, to our desirability.
“She buys into the myth that her sexuality comes from being ‘beautiful’ rather than understanding that her beauty comes from her sexuality.”
When people say they want to lose weight, they often mean I want to be respected. I want to be loved. I want to be seen. I want liberation from fear and self-loathing. Weight-loss culture will never give us those things because it is founded on fear/hate-based systems like sexism, racism, classism and ableism.
We don’t know — as a culture, as a gender, as individuals, you and I. The fact that we don’t know is feminism’s one true failure. We claimed the agency, we granted ourselves the authority, we gathered the accolades, but we never stopped worrying about how our asses looked in our jeans. There are a lot of reasons for this, a whole bunch of big sexist things we can rightfully blame. But ultimately, like anything, the change is up to us.
Read the whole article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-kinavey-dana-sturtevant/the-not-so-sexy-origins-of-body-shame_b_7185210.html?fb_action_ids=707478887384&fb_action_types=og.shares
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