August 2010
15 posts
HEY EVERYONE WHO OWNS A BODY
you can love your body without talking shit on other bodies.
you can have a preference for certain body types without talking shit on other body types.
you can want to change or improve your body without saying things to make other people feel like shit about their bodies.
it’s not that difficult. just take a second and think about what you’re saying, and how other people are going to receive what you’re about to say. think about what you’re actually calling “gross”. think about who else might be influenced by your words, or excluded by your generalizations (particularly “real women are/have ____” statements).
you are not expected to find everybody attractive. you will never find every single person attractive. but it is not your place to loudly and thoughtlessly pass judgement on people (even if those people have the shocking audacity to put their bodies on display in public or on the internet). yeah yeah, free speech, i know. but there’s also something called tact, and claiming “i’m an asshole, but i’m honest. i just tell it like it is” doesn’t make what you say any less shitty. easy enough, right?
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition.”
—Graham Greene (via emilyposts: restlessruminations) (via howdiabolical) (via ameliacharlottealice) (via godiseven)
