skinny bashing and the body acceptance movement
part of me wants to do a longer post about the resurgence of what i’ll call the “marilyn vs skinny girls” debate i’ve seen this week on the web/facebook, wherein what should be a positive message (love all types of bodies!) is still framed as negative, pitting one kind of body against another, discussed here as “The Problem With Skinny Bashing” , (and reflected with a feminist bent here in Why The Sexy Equinox Yoga Video Pissed Me Off (ftr i personally think that yoga video is INSPIRING)) and how entirely self-conscious these things makes me feel about my own body issues and some of the things i do, and how making the other side feel bad because you feel bad is NOT THE POINT OF THE BODY ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT, people – please stop comparing.
but that’s an enormous pandora’s box of judgments and feelings and so i’ll leave it at that.
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Okay. I am as feminist and as body positive as they come. I also have a pretty bad-ass yoga practice. When I look at that video, I don’t see an anorexic chick displaying herself for the benefit of men. I see years and years and years of hardcore practice. Her control and transitions are absolutely gorgeous. It is totally inspiring that yoga can take a body to where she took hers. Next time I want to skip class or half ass a pose I hate, I will think of this video. It has nothing to do with size. It’s all about her beautiful practice. Also, I wonder where that lady who blogged about the video lives. I live in in NYC and I got to Jiva, et al. The women in the video doesn’t look like she is on the edge of Karen Carpenter self-destruction to me. She looks little and healthy, not starving.
I know you and I have discussed this before but I just wanted to say thank you for helping make some noise on this subject! Curvy or skinny, what makes us beautiful is who we are inside.