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Whose Body Is It, Anyway?

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OM Times is a leading voice of the Conscious Community with articles covering the full spectrum of Conscious Living. Click here to see all we share. Whose Body Is It, Anyway?

by Marcia Sirota, MD

Recently I read that a male musician called out Taylor Swift over some perceived defect in her anatomy. It struck me that anyone, and I mean anyone today is fair game for those who engage in body-shaming.

Also this week, I read that a 10-year-old girl who had cut off 14 inches of her hair to donate to a charity that makes wigs for children being treated for cancer was bullied by boys at her school. They harassed her for “wanting to look like a boy.”

I’ve heard stories of how 13-year-old boys let the 11-year-old girls they go to school with know that they’ll only date girls who weigh less than a certain weight, so they better not get “heavy.”

I’ve heard of many thin celebrities being accused of having an eating disorder and I’ve heard of girls as young as seven going on diets to be more physically appealing to their male peers.

So much for the enlightened 21st century!

The thing is, neither men nor women win when we shame women over their bodies or appearance. This obsession over our weight, size and shape is so utterly irrelevant that it’s embarrassing. Are we so completely silly and shallow that we can’t focus on something, anything more meaningful than this?

When we value a woman for adhering to some mythical and impossible physical ideal, we completely ignore all the amazing and real attributes she has within her: her intelligence; her courage; her wit; her insights; her warmth; her strength and her talent, for example. Really, who cares about the size or shape of her various parts?

When men shame women for not conforming to their (often inconsistent and contradictory) standards of physical “perfection,” not only do they widen the gulf of alienation between the sexes, ensuring even greater difficulty in establishing intimate and fulfilling male-female relationships; they also deprive themselves of the best we women have to offer.


Source: http://omtimes.com/2015/03/whose-body-is-it-anyway/


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