When thinking about this blog and what else I would like to address in it, I started to think about the body image that women and girls are striving to attain. What I have come to realize is that most girls want the “Barbie Physique”. Okay ladies, so if you want to be Barbie here are some facts you might want to take into account…
Researchers decided to generate Barbie-doll type women on a computer to see if such proportions are realistic in women. They found that her back would be too weak to support her upper body and her waist would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and a few centimeters of bowel. Not only that, but women with those proportions would suffer from chronic diarrhea and eventually die from malnutrition. Sadly, our culture is one of thinness, and some would do anything to attain it. As women, we must realize that the beauty market is strictly established for economic reasons only. The reason so many pictures of women with unattainable beauty are shown on billboards all around the world is to make money! This fad is trying to make fools of everyone. We need to realize that beauty does not come from being the thinnest person around. Beauty is shown through confidence and charity. True beauty is loving yourself and others around you.
All of your posts are wonderful...I see a great need in women's lives all around me for greater confidence in who they really are.
ReplyDeleteI really like what you said about Barbie's "real" proportions. I think that we need to start being more realistic about women's bodies in order to change our mindsets about how women should look.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should put surgeon general health warnings on magazines and toys that portray women in an unhealthy manner such as this.
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