Posted - 4 years 11 months ago
Monday mantra from @thebirdspapaya "I had truly hoped that weight loss would bring me acceptance in todays society. And then, it did. Over time, that realization has made me angry. To be the same person on the inside and be treated differently for my outsides, bearing witness to it over and over again. All the while hiding a painful reality of having all of the same feelings of self-doubt and loathing to have followed me. ... As if the fat on my body was somehow the holder of my self-hate. I thought in losing the weight I would lose all of it, releasing it. I just wanted to release it. And so now I sit in a thinner body. With a new weight of knowing the truth of both sides. A truth that came with seeing and experiencing oppressive beliefs about my body that never truly ended. Even at an acceptable thinner size, I still experience it, for having cellulite, loose skin or stretch marks and now face knowing that this, this is the privileged side of the body shaming. Im not sure what Im even trying to say here. I guess just needed to say something. Get a little angry about it. Remind myself yet again that we are more than bodies. Dress them up and take them out. Watch them change. Let them change. Wear them with pride or work through your struggles with them. Feed them. Exercise them. They are best friend. They are not enemy. Weve been so distracted by them, we ended up focusing on the wrong enemy the entire time. Until we are ready to treat each other as humans, equal, body diverse humans, we are missing it. We are missing the magic and the purpose... Human to human, its time we just love on and respect each other no matter the body that shells it. We can never know what trauma, sickness, health, or mental warfare that lies beneath and we shouldnt need to know it to support her. I know she needed it. So we set bodies, shells, aside and remember that all are welcome here. My relationship with you, human to human, does not require it. Unless were hugging. Then maybe yeah."
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