Today's Three Word Wednesday words include: Ideal,
Measure, Teeter:
Please know this isn't meant to be a slam against people who choose to make themselves more beautiful with the occasional botox injection or maybe have gotten a "mommy make over" after having three caesarians and want to feel beautiful again... it is more a questioning of "When is enough, enough?"... especially given the measurement women are put up against, every day... I turn the radio when the plastic surgeon doctor's ads come on, I don't want my daughters to get stuck on that "ideal" or the concept that they are not "just right" as they are, naturally... so when these three words popped up, I simply had to write.
I saw one of "those" shows the other night and was repulsed more than delighted and had quite a surprising boost to my own self image as a result. Paradox? Maybe - anyway, read on and let me know what you think.
Where are the Real Women?
I watch those women
The one on that "reality"
show and I say...
How can women who
sculpt themselves with the
aid of highly paid surgeons,
be considered "real"?
when they measure
themselves in comparison
to Barbie -
and succeed...
How can they drink with
their misshapen lips - or
kiss, for that matter -
And have they lost all
sense of feeling in
their basketball breasts,
so high they could almost
do a slam dunk in their
late 40's while standing
in place?
How can they walk,
without teetering
over and falling and
bursting their implants
open or cutting their
injected, inflated, unnatural
looking lips?
I watch those women
on that "reality" show
and am grateful to
know, intimately -
what it looks like
and feels like to be
1000% real, natural,
passionate, alive,
tangible, soulful
almost 48-year-old
and proud of it
woman
Measure, Teeter:
Please know this isn't meant to be a slam against people who choose to make themselves more beautiful with the occasional botox injection or maybe have gotten a "mommy make over" after having three caesarians and want to feel beautiful again... it is more a questioning of "When is enough, enough?"... especially given the measurement women are put up against, every day... I turn the radio when the plastic surgeon doctor's ads come on, I don't want my daughters to get stuck on that "ideal" or the concept that they are not "just right" as they are, naturally... so when these three words popped up, I simply had to write.
I saw one of "those" shows the other night and was repulsed more than delighted and had quite a surprising boost to my own self image as a result. Paradox? Maybe - anyway, read on and let me know what you think.
Where are the Real Women?
I watch those women
The one on that "reality"
show and I say...
How can women who
sculpt themselves with the
aid of highly paid surgeons,
be considered "real"?
when they measure
themselves in comparison
to Barbie -
and succeed...
How can they drink with
their misshapen lips - or
kiss, for that matter -
And have they lost all
sense of feeling in
their basketball breasts,
so high they could almost
do a slam dunk in their
late 40's while standing
in place?
How can they walk,
without teetering
over and falling and
bursting their implants
open or cutting their
injected, inflated, unnatural
looking lips?
I watch those women
on that "reality" show
and am grateful to
know, intimately -
what it looks like
and feels like to be
1000% real, natural,
passionate, alive,
tangible, soulful
almost 48-year-old
and proud of it
woman
I'd rather a 'real' woman who is quite literally comfortable in her own skin than an insecure refurbished model who tries to change her own skin.
Without fixing the leaks within.
Well done...
Posted by: mark | January 21, 2010 at 08:18 AM
well said!
Posted by: Just Someone | January 21, 2010 at 08:24 AM
Real women rock!
Posted by: ThomG | January 21, 2010 at 08:42 AM
I think a lot of us think that. What are they doing to themselves and, more importantly, why?
Posted by: lilibeth | January 21, 2010 at 03:26 PM
Yeah, well said! But seriously why are they doing this to themselves? I've heard school girls talking about wanting implants for Christmas!
Posted by: Andy Sewina | January 21, 2010 at 04:05 PM
Well written, I am with Thom, real women do rock!
Posted by: Jay Thurston | January 21, 2010 at 08:03 PM
Nicely put. Give me the real any day.
Posted by: Anthony North | January 22, 2010 at 12:52 AM
its great when we have such self esteem and confidence. Well said, kudos...
Never Centered
Posted by: CJT | January 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM
timely truths!
Posted by: Dee | January 22, 2010 at 08:36 PM
I so agree!
Posted by: Tumblewords | January 22, 2010 at 09:30 PM
Kudos for this!
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Posted by: gautami tripathy | January 23, 2010 at 04:41 AM