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Post Reply WOMEN AND GIRLS why are you so hard on your self when it comes to the way you view your body?
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Posted 9/9/12, edited 9/9/12

Kyandy wrote:

It's not as simple as others try to explain.
We for centuries and millennia, have been groomed to believe the only thing we have of value ( and means of survival ) are our looks. It's not the media believe me, this has been for much mooore longer than that, much longer before Clairol and american idol.

Women are given jobs, partners, social acceptance and value given their looks. It's not that we decide how to live, it's because if we don't follow certain rules we can hope to pretty much never move forward.
1 in a hundred guys cares not for what a girl looks like, because the natural look guys claim to like it's actually quite artificial lol. It's not the pretty lady from the tampax commercial with fair skin and seemly "not a trace of make up." All those pretty "natural" ladies spend HOURS of grooming to appear this "natural."

Natural, truly natural girls are...not really the majestic vision of fairy everyone has idealized a woman to be. It may hurt some women who try to hide it, but here we go, all the secrets of women grooming:

Cellulitis/Stretching marks are a fact. A LOT of exercise, treatment, and $$$ is needed to get that shit controlled.
If you forget to keep up with your skin, the skin WILL get angry and do some evil business. No anime skin is natural
we need oil, creams, exercise and massage for a "healthy and smooth" looking skin.

BODY HAIR is a fact, face, legs, breast, every little part had annoying body hair, at least every 30 days that insane shit
needs to be controlled. Trimming or waxing, else one ends up...well hairy, everywhere.

Body Fat is a fact, our hormones are not helpful AT ALL, every 15 days we have radical change in our hormones, we need
diet to maintain a balanced and cosmetic weight, if we leave all to nature we would not be fairy-like creatures. Because, we are not
built to be fairy-like creatures. We are supposed to create other human beings and that, well needs fat.

You might say "I don't care dating a fatty gorilla!" but's it's not only that, it's not only about feeling pretty, even in america
women to be respected need to be a certain type, to survive, to excel and to triumph. Jobs, opportunities, advancement, respect,
and everything else is given to us thanks to a certain look and ideal.

Men don't have to worry about that, but we do, our survival depends on our looks. Sad but truth.

We hate our legs, our hair, our weight not because we want to do it, but because we have to do it, flaws can change our daily lives
want it or not. Our bodies are complicated, and we must live to the expectations of other's ideals. We are forced by society to do so
Else, we are disrespected and treated poorly.


Wow you are very detailed and I wouldn't doubt this...I do want a woman to do all of those things you mentioned as in keeping themselves up and such, yet after all of the treatments, creams and exercise I think she can feel good about herself..when I was 240lbs I felt a little less confident so I lost the weight now I'm 195lb nothing but muscle(it was something I could change), but if it is something in your gene's that wont change or something as small as a little cellulite or pear shape or long arms or whatever it is that she should at least be or at least try to become more confident in front of the guy that doesn't mind it. Because it stresses her out and intern stresses him out that his words kinda don't matter and a relationship can suffer in this situation. You ladies do have a lot to worry about concerning appearence its the small minor or unchangable things I am more focused on in this thread.
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MikiSayaka wrote:


^This pic.
That is all.


LOL soo true.
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that pic is awesome xD
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Not all women..
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People have called me fat since I entered school. It was horrible, then after school I'd go to a daycare where some kids would pick on me
( emotionally like bullying not physical. ) They'd make fun of what I eat and say it was horrible. Now I realize they were really ugly and I was prettier than them. People don't call me fat now, but I'm kinda chubby in my belly and thighs. I still want to lose weight and I still think I'm fat even though people tell me I'm not now. It's hard to build self-confidence when it was torn down in my early childhood.
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People have called me fat since I entered school. It was horrible, then after school I'd go to a daycare where some kids would pick on me
( emotionally like bullying not physical. ) They'd make fun of what I eat and say it was horrible. Now I realize they were really ugly and I was prettier than them. People don't call me fat now, but I'm kinda chubby in my belly and thighs. I still want to lose weight and I still think I'm fat even though people tell me I'm not now. It's hard to build self-confidence when it was torn down in my early childhood.


I so understand you! The same happens to me It's really hard to make myself thinks that i'm okay when people were telling me, when i was a kid, that I was fat, weird
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Posted 9/9/12
I'm tall in Asia


short in America.. XP

but that's fine cuz i feel small :3 ! !
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because thats what guys care about. not personality or anything, appearance.
but i dont care what guys care about so i dont care about my image.
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eclair-lumiere wrote:

because thats what guys care about. not personality or anything, appearance.
but i dont care what guys care about so i dont care about my image.


I don't think that's completely true.

Most of the guys I've met, yes are pigs. But there are some decent men out there to.
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eclair-lumiere wrote:

because thats what guys care about. not personality or anything, appearance.
but i dont care what guys care about so i dont care about my image.


Umm...not all guys are caring only about you appearance, but it is part of attraction for guys and girls to put effort into looking good.
The guys your looking at might not be the right ones...just change your searching approach, trust me they DO exist.
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this is my opinion
first of all its because us woman (or at least i do )focus on one thing and compare it to others.while im guessing men just look at the whole body and not individually .plus we have the image that u have too be skinny and all that shit...i try to stay positive,though sometimes i have though's days. but im getting use too how i look like im just focusing on staying fit and taking care of my hygiene...and not all girls are insecure i mean in my school there's some girls who are overconfident.
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This is a double edged sword, it's not just one swung at women. If anything, and this is an unbiased opinion with no influence of me being male, it's more difficult for a man to be considered good looking than it does for a woman. Females want skinny, all they have to do is eat right and bunny up for a little cardio. Males have to spend hours a day working out to be considered handsome. I used to be 250 pounds, but I lost over 100 of it because of health reasons, not so much the vanity aspect. Personally, I believe whether you're a man or a woman, you should be eating right and exercising, but this is in no way something only female feel. Even now that I'm in the best shape of life, I still look in the mirror and think I need to improve myself or hate that I can't just swallow 8 bags of Skittles in 5 minutes. It's a human thing, not a woman thing.
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Sure, if a woman is obsessive about her body it's unhealthy and counter-productive. Any sort of extreme tends to be that way.

But it's not a bad thing, in my honest opinion, for a woman to care about the way she looks and put forth reasonable effort to maintain it.

I think it's important to be a balanced person and not neglect an aspect of your being - whether it's your mind, body, relationships, hobbies, career, etc. It takes a lot of work and time to keep all of them at a good level.

And let's be honest, no matter how badly we might wish the world was less materialistic and superficial, we have to face the reality that there is a role that physical appearance plays in society and our every day lives, we are definitely judged for it, and it's not going away any time soon.
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Posted 9/9/12
cause we want people to like us.
Other girls to think that we're their "equal" thus treat us equally. Body shape is just like labels...
Don't you always find that there's ONE big girl and a bunch of thin girls in a party group? my friend said that they only keep the lady with the curves cause they want to create an illusion to other guys that they're thinner and more sexy/in shape -.-

Oh and also blame it on shallow guys too
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