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This is a blog for life events, reviews of entertainment items (movies, games, music), and debates as well as opinions and finally- written works.Warning
♥Strong language used in posts, reference to sex, drugs, alcohol, rock stars and obscure indie movies and music.
♥I support gay rights.
♥I'm a practicing Catholic but not a bible-thumper.
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I'm not responsible for your butt-hurt or your narrow-mindedness. I'll take on your disagreements- but when the CAPSLOCKS!>!~ come into play. Go away. All the writings here on this website is copywrite Vere Marie Khan, 2009.No one Ever Said I was Pretty
No one ever told me I was pretty growing up, every girl needs to be told she’s pretty. Lest she fall prey to the trails of the mass media influencing their mind to believe that they will never be beautiful.
Marketing departments and ad agencies spend millions each year
targeting teenage girls who will spent their money on looking good. Although the message of “girl power” is prevalent in today’s marketing messages, so is the irrefutable idea that “sexy” and “thin” are in! Sexy IS thin.
The dieting industry alone generates 40 billion dollars per year in America. If
you believe diets are just for adults, you will be shocked to learn that a
Harvard study (Fat Talk, Harvard University Press) published in 2000 revealed
that 86% of teenage girls are on a diet or believe they should be on one. Diets
are common among both teens and children. According to the National Eating
Disorders Association, 51% of 9 and 10-year-old girls actually feel better about
themselves when on a diet. As a society, our obsession with thin is relatively
new. Most people (especially teens) are shocked to find that sex icon Marilyn
Monroe actually wore a size 14!
But pick up a fashion magazine today and you’ll find models who are thinner than
98% of all the girls and women in America. Turn on a television and see ‘sexy’
celebrities such as Shania Twain, Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson baring
their flesh. It is these role models who have become the standard of what is in
vogue in the twenty-first century.
Most girls, especially in Trinidad and Tobago, believe that to be beautiful they must be thin, tall, and -shockingly- light-skinned. Girls in this generation do not feel comfortable in their own bodies and start from early as 9 to begin to desire the feeling of being someone else.
Even if it starts with one person, that person being you- you need to let the people in your life know that they’re beautiful. There is no need to think and judge on looks or what the media wants you to seem like. The media will always call you ugly and they will always make you feel like you need to be a slave to their mass production. They want you to be enslaved by the phrase of you’re not worthy anything if you aren’t beautiful.
Make up flies off the wall. No one is ever beautiful until they hide everything original about themselves. Your hair isn’t straight or its too straight, your skin isn’t light enough or its not dark enough, your eyes aren’t exotic or they’re too strange. With all these rules to follow to be beautiful, and with the stigma of being a lame girl if you don’t follow, isn’t not hard to see how the road has gotten so much narrower for the female kind.
We may have moved light years in terms of our ability to vote, have a voice and to achieve- but if we are held back by insignificant things such as appearance and allow it to hold us to the ground, then we will never truly grow intellectually.
I’d much prefer someone telling me, “You’re brilliant,” instead of “You’re beautiful.”
And I can thank my father for that, everyday.
Labels: looks, rants, review, self-esteem
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 9:03 AM
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Hi! My name is Vere Marie and I'll be your waiter this evening. I'm bitchy, out-spoken and entirely crude. I'm not the kind to kneel over and die after a little bit of criticism nor will I back down in the face of a challenge.
I'm strong minded and opinionated which causes alot of trouble from time to time- but to be quite honest I'm just an average girl with a computer and too much free time- I love to write, play video games and watch anime and read classics and manga.
But I also love to party. Flip sides of the coin made into one little piggy bank- that turned out to be me. ♥
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