Just The Way We Are
Let’s talk numbers, shall we? – 42% of girls in grades 1-3 want to be thinner – 51% of 9-10 year old girls feel better about themselves when they’re dieting – 53% of 13 year old girls are unhappy with their bodies; by the time they’re 17, 78% of them will be – By [...]
Love it or hate it, Elan Morgan ponders self-acceptance, our bodies, and why there isn’t really an answer. I think about beauty and self-acceptance and love, and I think about how our culture, in an effort to beat back the ocean of self-loathing that women have been drowning in for so long, offers up [...]
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