joss70
Lexington, VA
age: 29
| After a million threads....HaHa, BBW is exactly that not an interpretation of it!!! We all should STOP and think, be happy woman are HAPPY with themselves finally....
BBW & body image: Why us woman can't stop asking this same OLD QUESTION!!!!!!
An important theme running throughout much of the discourse concerning the adolescent female is that of the ideal archetypal woman having a perfect body. The idea and image of the perfect female body is one which has a pervasive influence on woman's consciousness and first creates conflict during puberty. Woman in western cultures are bombarded with images of "ideal" woman. An historical analysis will show us that this ideal is wholly socially constructed. The rounded contours of the Renaissance ideal contrasts sharply with the asexual flatness of the 20's flappers. In more recent times, the 1950's ideal was buxom and curvacious, in contrast to the ideal of the starved appearance of the 60's woman. As woman squeeze, constrict and pad their bodies in order to comply with some artificial ideal they are internalizing the message that the natural body is unsightly, not attractive, and needs to be changed.
The messages in the media warn the young woman to be afraid of her body because it CAN and WILL let her down: by becoming fat, emitting unpleasant odours and bleeding. At the same time, she receives the message that her passport to happiness (you know five ft 4 and only 140lbs) It is through her body that she entices a man, which should be her main objective.
This attitude, which is instilled in adolescence, carries throughout a womans life, resulting in constant worry over weight, appearance and dissatisfaction with her body.
This is called the internalized norm of beauty!
The influence of the female body on the consciousness or behavior of woman has either been exaggerated (in a negative way) or denied, thereby preventing woman from integrating their bodies with their conceptualizations of self, and ultimately producing fragmented and split identities.
So in these threads we pour false aggression out of lack of empowering ourselves with knowledge of our history as woman....That was the point I was trying to get across earlier, we are not talking about big, fat, skinny its beneath that entirely...Wake up woman..... Open your eyes be kind to one another
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beanz991
Houston, TX
age: 41
| Another BBW thread??? /rubs hands together...
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joss70
Lexington, VA
age: 29
| I have dial up SORRY, I was thinking and writing....sorry again....
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ge0ge0
Tallahassee, FL
age: 42 online now!
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