tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325396139579304736.post4198503975620432891..comments2023-12-04T01:43:17.121-08:00Comments on The Feminist UnFairytales of a Young African Mother: Reviving an old article: 'I Got It From My Mama'Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05738211434010103529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325396139579304736.post-38426244567378779722015-08-06T07:25:53.810-07:002015-08-06T07:25:53.810-07:00Thanks for reading babe x (you know I love you.)
T...Thanks for reading babe x (you know I love you.)<br />The changes in my perspective are with regard to the question of beauty itself. Beauty is marketed primarily to women and is intrinsically connected with who we deem valuable, and in many cases, even human. (I don't mean human as in human/animal; I mean it as in being allowed full humanity with regard to rights, empathy, dignity etc). We equate beauty with goodness, and our ideas of how beauty works inform many harmful ideas/tropes that our society(ies) would be well rid of. For instance, think of how the media portrays the women who are worth saving, for instance, or the trope of the 'nerd makeover' that always has the goofy/ugly/fat girl suddenly become a babe and THEN become worthy of love from the hot guy. Think of how much energy women spend promoting 'body positivity'/'self-acceptance' etc in a world where <br />1. the beauty ideal is always shifting, always elusive, always exclusive <br />2. Capitalism is making millions off of keeping this ideal that way <br />3. we have so much more important stuff to tackle and such limited time to tackle it in.<br />Basically, I've evolved past the idea of democratising beauty/promoting 'inner beauty', and am now at the point where I'm critical of why we even need beauty in the first place. Who does it serve? What other frameworks can we use to build a sense of value/personhood, especially for the people who are usually deprived of those things? etc. etc. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05738211434010103529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325396139579304736.post-90461646617136897842015-08-06T02:36:38.279-07:002015-08-06T02:36:38.279-07:00I loved reading this darling, but I'm curious ...I loved reading this darling, but I'm curious as to what has "evolved or changed entirely" in this piece because if I read this randomly on some site, I would think you wrote it. So, tell me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08052089700221126285noreply@blogger.com