Let's Talk About the Body

     Mr. Starace said there were no limitations for the content of the media that we covered in our blogs, so I am now going to take it to heart. Yes, I would like to talk about boobs. It's ok, there's no need to get squeamish when you hear the word, because 50% of the world's 7 billion people have them. But I don't just want to talk about boobs; specifically, I want to talk about body image, and how media has warped it into this unattainable, nearly impossible expectation that people of all ages, female and male, struggle to obtain.
     I find this topic of body image largely accepted, and yet ignored and unaddressed in our society. Regarding the women in lingerie, clothing, dieting product advertisements and many others, their bodies are often warped into these unrealistic images. They are curvy, but not too curvy because that would mean they're fat (because we all know that fat is gross); they have long, skinny legs, with the definition of their leg muscles showing, but not too prominently because that would make them look too macho and manly (which is "unfeminine" and therefore unattractive); and their breasts and butts are perfectly rounded and proportional, because anything that is not proportionate to the rest of your body and is shaped differently from these women is not normal and should be looked down upon and changed immediately.
     Why can't the little imperfections of our bodies that the media tells us to change be celebrated? I don't know about you, but I find it rather boring to see the same ol' women on the magazines with their large breasts, tanned skin, and legs for days. It's much more interesting to show the variety of bodies that there are in the world, and to start seeing them no longer as unnatural and ugly, but as beautiful creations. Here is the article that I read before I went on a tangent:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alanna-vagianos/bra-shopping-small-breasts_b_5316209.html

     It's just not worth it. You were born with a body, and you will die with that very same body, excuse the morbidity of the truth (unless you get implants or whatever, but that's a whole different story of controversy). Who cares whether or not it looks like Kate Upton on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Chances are she was airbrushed, her skin tanned, her thighs made smaller, her breasts enlarged, her blemishes erased... And since when does our definition of beauty and normalcy have to be defined by the media? The media has only defined these two terms of beauty and normalcy into impossibly narrow, unrealistic categories anyway.

I think this is better, and much more realistic, not to mention more beautiful:

Why try to change in attempt to fit yourself into these fabricated categories made by the "beauty" industries of our societies? I say give them the fist,

and let em know that you are going to embrace your body and there's nothing they can do about it.

Boobs. Breasts. See? That's not so bad. And after reading this and you still don't believe me about the amount of photoshopping that goes into the bodies of women, think twice after watching this video: