The funny thing is that everyone is so quick to point at and judge the outsiders and other people rather than looking at ourselves and problems with our own culture.
One of the things I learned from an Iranian friend is how they scoffed at American women for being brainwashed into feeling the need to wear bikinis and skimpy clothing in order to attract males and how sex is so prevalent in our media while at the same time being so taboo. On the American side, we scoff at certain Muslim cultures by saying that their women are being brainwashed, treated like property, and forced to wear a hijab. Generalisations are bad, mmk?
If you want to get anywhere with dialogue, we must explore the actual reasons behind the beliefs, educate ourselves, and then allow free choice.
And our government should stop being in bed with Saudi Arabia. What a disgusting state of affairs for cheap oil.
Absolutely, but Americans point this out too.
"Halloween is just an excuse for girls to dress slutty." <--- Absolutely true nowadays and numerous of my girlfriends have said it....
No, we're all screwed up, and if you think I lay into the Muslims about how they treat women, then be thankful I haven't published the book of how our culture screws over females. This is especially true in the appearances department.
(Warning, the following shows renaissance art like Michelangelo's detail of the Sybil from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, and Rembrandt's "Bathsheba." This includes some nudity.)
http://cinnabarswan.com/oldsite/essayfb2.htmThose women are beautiful.... They are what I want to be, especially Bathsheba, and what society should strive for and hold out as the ideal of beauty instead of the physically impossible crap we do today. Sybil and Bathsheba actually eat something now and then. There's a girl who knows what something besides celery tastes like. They actually are real women portrayed beautifully in image and art.... No, really the crap we have today is physically impossible and made by photo shop, bad photo shop.
And then of course there is where they botch photoshop to leave out part of the model's body:
http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/a-line/demi-moores-w-cover-worst-photoshop-ever/306Where is her right hip?
Do you see how it's missing? Take a look at the right hip part of that little... outfit... she's wearing. You see how that wrap thing is kind of floating away from her "body." You see that little space? That space is where her hip is and the bastards at the magazine photoshopped or airbrushed it out. Why? Why you bastards? Was she not skinny enough?
Holy shit really? It's not bad enough that I have a society where women have to look like models in order to feel pretty but now even the models aren't good enough? Now we have to use computers to make the photos complete and utter bullshit...? Designers, could you at least give me an incredibly hard thing to strive towards being instead of a completely impossible one?
Why do we worship skinny little strumpets or really in some cases sluts? Now, while I'm not overweight, I'm also not skinny. I'm healthy and I eat things now and then. Most men consider this sexy:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asian_model_with_pole.jpg I see this and wanna hand that poor thing a cheeseburger and ask with concern, "Honey are they feeding you?"