"[there is a] counterforce operating to checkmate the inheritance of feminism on every level in the lives of Western women....Patriarchal religion declined, new religious dogma arose around age and weight to fuctionally supplant traditional ritual...Feminists broke household product advertisers' stranglehold on women's popular press and at once, the diet and skin care industries became the cultural censors of women's intellectual space. Because of their pressure, the gaunt, youthful model supplanted the happy housewife as the arbiter of female sexuality."
~ Naomi Wolf, 'The Beauty Myth'think about it.
Do we focus on, obsess over beauty because we need something to do? worship beauty because we just need something to believe in and jesus wasn't doing it anymore?
the whole diet-makeup-shopping-hairstyling thing is such a ritual.
it's possible that the pursuit of beauty is more destructive than religion ever was; i read that thirty years ago, supermodels had an average weight of 8% below the norm. Today, it's 23% lower. i wonder how we escape this.
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i have endometriosis, and i ended up having to go to the hospital this morning for a shot of demerol. i got two friends to drive me there, and they even stayed there with me, which was nice of them...i would have felt so small and forlorn if they'd left. except one of them, NEVER stops talking. ever. she's nice in small doses, but today she was killing me.
i thought the entire waiting room was going to lynch me for subjecting them to her.
mp3 i'm listening to:
bjork, shaggy, ben harper, bob marley, travis, moby
songs i used to love that i've rediscovered ---
andrea bocceli - con te partiro
boy george - crying game (rent that movie if you haven't already)
fun loving criminals - smoke 'em
wyclef jean - gone till november
the music is so good that i want to bite into it. i'm serious. i can just tell it would be juicy, like a peach.
19:01:10 - 2001-01-07
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