The Body Perfect

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I follow Elephant Journal via my Facebook newsfeed. Not to give Zuckerberg too many props, but the feed, though it's lousy for keeping track of family/friends in realtime, can be utilized as a fairly good online mag and blog reader.

The article was written by Beth Barila and discussed the mostly female unease with the body. She began with a discussion of a class she was teaching and had invited a photographer in to capture a few shots.

"Don't worry," she told her students, "it will be from behind. No one will know it's you."



She was surprised that some objected to photo-capturing of their bums, but I wasn't. Photographing women is a highly emotional issue for not just a few females, and why shouldn't it be? We may technically have it all, but we are still not equal in terms of the way we are objectified and held up to impossible standards of physical perfection.

Society as a whole is in on the joke on us from actresses who insist that every image of them is photoshopped in the Twilight Zone to the wildly held belief that hanging onto one's youth should be on everyone's top five list of priorities.

It's a good article, but I am a choir member, so I've read much of it before. And check out the video too. Also old stuff but important and should be repeated loudly and often.