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Jul. 4th, 2007 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/africa/04mauritania.html
In Mauritania the beauty standard runs counter to ours and fat is the ideal. The article makes it pretty clear that this is just as toxic as the crap people put themselves through here to be thin.
I could get into that whole thing about "Real women have curves" here. I could say, for example, "Real women aren't treated like animals -- starved or force fed or otherwise controlled to be a more pleasing and valuable commodity." But the fact is, real women are treated like this all the time. Often, real women sign themselves up for it, wanting, assuming -- or even knowing -- there aren't other choices.
That's why every sentence that starts with that "real woman" thing just gives me the hives.
The idea of the "real woman" as opposed to some other sort of living, breathing, woman is a dangerous fiction.
In Mauritania the beauty standard runs counter to ours and fat is the ideal. The article makes it pretty clear that this is just as toxic as the crap people put themselves through here to be thin.
I could get into that whole thing about "Real women have curves" here. I could say, for example, "Real women aren't treated like animals -- starved or force fed or otherwise controlled to be a more pleasing and valuable commodity." But the fact is, real women are treated like this all the time. Often, real women sign themselves up for it, wanting, assuming -- or even knowing -- there aren't other choices.
That's why every sentence that starts with that "real woman" thing just gives me the hives.
The idea of the "real woman" as opposed to some other sort of living, breathing, woman is a dangerous fiction.
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Re: I have to note that
Date: 2007-07-05 01:35 am (UTC)When it was used by men, they, pprobably selfishly, pointed more toward T&A than increased overall weight by way of lowered metabolism of maturity. The intentionally, I believe, avoided the boat.
The real woman was meant to be any range of substantiality, either inside or out, but the male translation of this concept was out only, polarizing it in the process.
I am 35, and an actor as well, it's intense sometimes to see that I'm at the cutoff age officially for many jobs, to even try out, even though the part is not of an engenue(SP). It's both intriguing and scary to me.
I know that I have more to give now than I ever did at 17, and nothing anyone can tell me can make me think that somehow at 36, I'll become irrelevant, or eligible only for the 10 "mommy" roles up for a particular year.