telling girls they’re beautiful
and that they’d be more beautiful if they didn’t think they’re beautiful
and then telling them it doesn’t matter cos beauty is only skin deep
and then continuously treating girls better that you deem more beautiful
but calling girls who take measures to improve their physical appearance shallow, and saying that by doing so they are taking away from their beauty
- skinny legs
- a thigh gap
- a flat stomach
- thin arms
- a thin face
- wearing shorts with confidence
- wearing tight skirts and dresses
- go swimming
- stepping on the scale and being happy with the number
- looking in the mirror and being happy with what I see
- looking good on pictures
- being one of the skinny girls
- being able to sit on someone’s lap without thinking of an excuse why I can’t
- finally being able to live life to the fullest
Imagine being skinnier than your skinny friend.
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gabriellabowden answered:
oh man yeah girls are so nuts imagine being raised in a society that demands thinness of you, ribcages assaulting you from every billboard, endless legs and gangly arms and doe eyed models peering out at you from every magazine page, all telling you that you aren’t right, that you don’t fit, that you aren’t small enough or delicate enough to be wanted or accepted, that you are too plump and messy and unkempt to ever be loved or love yourself. ask yourself how a young girl is meant to navigate this world, how she is meant to survive when every piece of media thrust at her is subliminally, or at times overtly, telling her that things would fall into place if she was smaller. would you blame her for dieting? would you blame her for getting ill? and after years of this fluctuation, this succumbing to these ideals, then rejecting them, then succumbing again, can you understand the exhaustion and the fear that surrounds weight and food? something meant for fuel, turned into something to be feared because the threat still hangs so heavy, saying if you become larger, you will lose your worth. and you have the gall to call this dumb, when you, presumably a male, play a part in this heinous dynamic, feeling at ease to police women on their appearances, deem us too fat, too thin, not enough ass, too much stomach and then when you don’t fancy actually listening to these concerns, when you’ve finished critiquing and objectifying, you can sit back and call us dumb and shallow for caring and being affected so deeply by this toxic culture that you play a part in in the first place. absolutely, profoundly bugger off.
I wish I could see a photo of myself at my goal weight. That would be the ultimate motivation.
boys love pretty girls. pretty girls are skinny. go get skinny girl.
Some girls are born thin. But we, we work for it. Thatโs what makes us special. Weโre infinitely more powerful because we work for our body.
People have started calling me tiny. Boys have started picking me up. Girls have asked me how I got so skinny. It’s been worth it. Just another five pounds.
I only apply my strict body standards to myself. I think other girls look AMAZING all curvy and shit and I do not judge them by their weight or body type whatsoever. I only need myself to be tiny.
