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February 27th, 2012 at 6:01PM
alwaystalking2myself: daniellemertina: annieelainey: RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN: Repeat after me: Be more critical of the media, be less critical of yourself. Why spend your time nit picking in the mirror? Why not question the track that brought you to this point? WHY ARE YOU SO CRITICAL OF YOUR BODY? There are a number of reasons, but for now, let’s just look at one. Why not question the media/advertising? Use that energy that you use to criticize your reflection, to change the world, not your body. Killing Us Softly 4 Beauty Pressure Miss Representation The Illusionists America: The Beautiful The funny/ ironic thing about ALL of this is that it further marginalizes WoC. Self-love is only ever talked about in relation to white women, if it is spoken about at all. I watched nearly all of these trailers and some of them didn’t have a single non-white woman in them. So what you’re telling me is that there are no white women who *really* fit the image of beauty since they’re all air brushed/ computer edited but that I as a black woman am SO far from the standard, that they needn’t even bring me up. LOL. That’s one reason why I don’t watch TV. And one reason, why I don’t bother with things like this. damn…didnt even notice. in fact i thought i had deleted this or left it in the drafts so i could check it out….-sighs- summadatbull… :(

alwaystalking2myself:

daniellemertina:

annieelainey:

RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN: Repeat after me: Be more critical of the media, be less critical of yourself.

Why spend your time nit picking in the mirror? Why not question the track that brought you to this point? WHY ARE YOU SO CRITICAL OF YOUR BODY? There are a number of reasons, but for now, let’s just look at one. Why not question the media/advertising? Use that energy that you use to criticize your reflection, to change the world, not your body.

The funny/ ironic thing about ALL of this is that it further marginalizes WoC. Self-love is only ever talked about in relation to white women, if it is spoken about at all.

I watched nearly all of these trailers and some of them didn’t have a single non-white woman in them.

So what you’re telling me is that there are no white women who *really* fit the image of beauty since they’re all air brushed/ computer edited but that I as a black woman am SO far from the standard, that they needn’t even bring me up. LOL. That’s one reason why I don’t watch TV. And one reason, why I don’t bother with things like this.

damn…didnt even notice. in fact i thought i had deleted this or left it in the drafts so i could check it out….-sighs- summadatbull… :(

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