Friday, November 30, 2012

Celebrating All Bodies

While reading Women Voices on The Huffington Post, I stumbled upon this article which takes a very different point of view on body positivity. Although I think it's great that culture, especially on the Internet, has embraced women's curviness and different body types as beautiful, but, as this author states, we should not bash thinner, skinnier women either. Instead, as she points out, we should celebrate all body types, both curvy and thin, as long as these women are healthy. She also points out that eating disorders, including both anorexia and obesity issues should not be celebrated, but emphasizes that all thin women or curvy women are not necessarily unhealthy.

"Telling a thin woman to go 'eat a sandwich' is pretty much as rude as calling a fuller-figured girl fat," she says.

So, my question to you all is - do you think that a fair mixture of body shapes and sizes should be represented in the media, or do you think all extremely thin representations of girls should be eliminated?




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