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The Beauty Myth

The Beauty Myth is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf which argues that as women have become more powerful in society the standards of physical appearance have also grown.

Wolf believes that "beauty" is a societal construct:

"The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us... during the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty... pornography became the main media category, ahead of legitimate films and records combined, and thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal...More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers."

Friday, 23 September 2011

Naughty Things I Got Away with as a child....?

Ok - So on the weight-watcher community site there is a theme every Friday and I wanted to start doing the theme blog as its a great way for people to get to know each other, and luckily my WW friend Tom seems to always know what the Friday Theme is!

Unfortunately this is a difficult questions, namely because my pi$$ poor memory means that I hardly remember what I got up to last month, never mind as a child.

Overall I was a pretty good kid, although I did have this terrible thing where I just would not brush my teeth. Don't ask me why - I just didn't want to do it. I remember once when my Dad asked me if I had, and I lied, so he marched me down the hall telling me he was going to check to my toothbrush. I remember desperately trying to think of excuses: "maybe it's dried out already!"

You didn't get away with much in my house - take sick days from school, my head would have to literally have to be hanging off my head before my Mum would let me stay off school. And as an only child until I was 7 I had the full attention of 2 sets of eyes at all times.

When I got a bit older, and after my brother was born, I used to blame a lot on him. And I would steal his action men and force them to marry my barbies. Always did prefer action men to ken dolls - and today a bit of muscular roughness beats a pretty boy any day of the week! My brother used to go nuts!

My Dad said that one thing I always try to get away with was reading after lights out. This would often backfire though, when my Dad would shout up the stair and ask if I was sleeping, and I would shout back "YES!"

Ah to be young again!

Of course the naughty things I got away with when I grew up a bit....well lets just say that is a whole different blog entry ;)

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