Oh Amy Bloom, you once again kill it with your words of wisdom, this time about how to change the disdain women have for their bodies and help our girls navigate a world of images and judgement that resemble the same sort of reality that say, The Kardashian’s offer. I can’t seem to get enough of this topic. Why? Because it is so sadly off kilter, so insanely out of whack, so completely FUCKED. The images we see in the media are distorted beyond our wildest photoshop skills. Those images inform us of who we should be, look like, aspire to. It’s a different sort of Cinderella story, another fairy tale to sell the next generation. There’s no prince charming, girls. And there’s no perfect body. There are, however, women with beautiful interior lives and flawless characters. And there are great guys out there, too, and while none of them are perfect, all they have to be is perfect for you.
Here, in case you haven’t seen this, is what we’re up against. And we wonder why our daughters (and we ourselves) hate our bodies.
*the gratitude-a-thon 