Tag: thin ideal
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Our wish to be thinner…
For many of us, the wish to be smaller starts early on in our lives as we internalize diet culture’s messages that link thinness to worthiness. It is not the only wish we have of course. We wish to be rich. We wish to be curvy or sexy or muscular, all depending on our gender…
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Who would you (rather) be…?
We are all swimming in the culture that tries extremely hard, and mostly succeeds, to convince us that we must meet certain standards to be acceptable. These can be performance standards, appearance norms, social standing, economic status, IQ levels and so many more. If we internalize these cultural messages, we spend a lot of time…