SkinnyGirls
Tonight Jessyca and I went to Denny's with our moms. But we had to sit at a different table so that they could talk....at least we got our dinners paid for!!!
Anyway, one of our many topics over two superbirds and a salad was how annoying it is to be skinny girls. And by that we mean we don't get to join into the conversation with other girls about what we may or may not like about our bodies. If we say we like something about ourselves and express it then we sound like stuck up snobs. And if we even dare to complain about things that we don't like....it's not usually a pretty sight.
It's not that we agree with how society treats women; that we are not worth anything unless we have a certain bust, waist, and hip size, but it's annoying when our own sisters turn on us too. Apparently we have no right to complain about our bodies.
I have no idea what it is like to deal with having an overweight problem...my issue was always gaining weight. And I never wore anything but pants and jeans for the longest time because everyone would make fun of how skinny my legs were. Everyone notices if you've put on or lost any weight and they think that just because your skinny and not overweight that it's not a sensitive issue and they can comment on it. You're always being told to eat, put some meat on your bones, or whatever. Trust me, a lot of skinny girls can and do eat!
I think my main point is that whether you are over or under weight you can be traumatized by other peoples perceptions of how you look. And I'm tired of my sisters who ostracize us skinny girls just because they don't understand the pressures of being skinny, of trying to be more perfect, of trying to live up to a standard that we didn't chose for ourselves.
We are all beautiful, overweight, underweight, and everything in between. Maybe we should learn to acknowledge our good attributes instead of complaining about what we wished we looked like.
Anyway, one of our many topics over two superbirds and a salad was how annoying it is to be skinny girls. And by that we mean we don't get to join into the conversation with other girls about what we may or may not like about our bodies. If we say we like something about ourselves and express it then we sound like stuck up snobs. And if we even dare to complain about things that we don't like....it's not usually a pretty sight.
It's not that we agree with how society treats women; that we are not worth anything unless we have a certain bust, waist, and hip size, but it's annoying when our own sisters turn on us too. Apparently we have no right to complain about our bodies.
I have no idea what it is like to deal with having an overweight problem...my issue was always gaining weight. And I never wore anything but pants and jeans for the longest time because everyone would make fun of how skinny my legs were. Everyone notices if you've put on or lost any weight and they think that just because your skinny and not overweight that it's not a sensitive issue and they can comment on it. You're always being told to eat, put some meat on your bones, or whatever. Trust me, a lot of skinny girls can and do eat!
I think my main point is that whether you are over or under weight you can be traumatized by other peoples perceptions of how you look. And I'm tired of my sisters who ostracize us skinny girls just because they don't understand the pressures of being skinny, of trying to be more perfect, of trying to live up to a standard that we didn't chose for ourselves.
We are all beautiful, overweight, underweight, and everything in between. Maybe we should learn to acknowledge our good attributes instead of complaining about what we wished we looked like.
posted by jenni~ru at 10:04 PM
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