Thursday, September 25, 2014
Barbie - a spoken word poem about body image
This is powerful and yet so true. We teach our little girls from a very young age about Beauty. We tell our little girls how beautiful and pretty they are. From the little stories we read our children, like Cinderella, we are teaching them about beauty. It is incorporated from the time they are toddlers and it follows them through life. The media, a lot of girls and guys try to be perfect, and no matter how hard some try, it is never good enough. When is it good enough, when do we ever reach that goal of being perfect? Is it really ever an attainable goal or is it a fallacy. Fashion is always changing and so is our expectations of what we should look like instead of who we really are. When is it ever good enough? Some people never find this place in life and it can end tragically. We need to build on this concept of beauty and not let it be just what we see, but who and what we are on the inside. The outside is just a cover, and you truly do not get to enjoy the real beauty of a person unless you get to know that individual themselves.
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carol, this is great it really speaks to me as well. Some people can be so quick to judge others without seeing where the true beauty lies. In our culture, you see so much pressure reflected on young girls and women about what beauty is or how you should look. And as you said, real beauty isn't about the weight or the makeup, but what should be emphasized is the character a person portrays on the inside.
ReplyDeletei loved it! she is so right! and i loved the way she made the video, and her voice.. she is talking about something that is indignant but her tone of voice is soothing and calmed. i love it!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with this. I have 2 teenage girls, I sympathize with this. The pressure not just for them but for all females in general is unreal. We should just love and be accepted for who we are and not be so shallo and be judged or judge by what we look like.
ReplyDeleteSuch truth in this. The unattainable is drilled into out children's heads everyday. Even the cartoons have beautiful, thin, long haired, curvy (but not too much) girls. I try to talk to my daughter about the falsity of it. It is getting worse and worse, now with photo shop and truths coming out about manipulation of photos to make girls and boys thinner, and taking out "undesirable" areas. It's scary.
ReplyDeleteThe quote "Don't judge a book by it's cover" stands so true in this post. Whether the book is worn or brand new doesn't determine it's contents. The contents of a book/ an individuals personality is the final characteristic that determines it/ones worth/beauty.
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