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07-31-14, 10:05 AM | |
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Great post EnglishIvy
I first read about thigh gap here. I don't watch much television talk shows nor celebrity related stuff and haven't bought a fashion type magazine since my teens so I do sort of live in a bubble. But I've got friends into entertainment and others whom want to be famous and I gotta say it seems to really warp their sense of what truly healthy self worth is versus the temporary high from plastic surgery to be molded into what they see as society's norm.
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07-31-14, 10:08 AM | |
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Michelle I also think it has a lot to do with how you're raised and whom you're around. My culture growing up was around people who did triathlons and where education was valued. What you looked like, especially if you seemed to be way involved in that more than any other thing, made people well laugh. That's not to say everyone in my circle and family had high self worth or never wore makeup and dieted, but on the value scale it wasn't high priority.
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07-31-14, 10:13 AM | |
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Me too. I do feel sympathy for people whose self esteem is highly dependent on whether they match up to unrealistic body ideals. These are wise words for them. If you consider poverty, illiteracy, war, disability, human trafficking and illness, and that a majority of the worlds population has to deal with one or more of this, lack of a thigh gap is a blessing if it is the main issue one has.
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07-31-14, 11:53 AM | ||
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It seems helpful to say, "this thigh gap test is all just silly," so that the people who were plagued with it can read it (the point of this thread), but entirely another to outright insult the people who were plagued with it.
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07-31-14, 12:40 PM | ||
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My teenage niece is beautiful and thin and unfortunately a lot of her self esteem and self worth is based on that. She works out like crazy to maintain it and is distressed when anything derails it. I would love it if she had the maturity to "get past" this and hopefully someday that will indeed be the case. As it is, though, she gets so much positive reinforcement for her physical attributes from society...compliments, male attention, etc. that its not hard to understand how she has gotten to this point. For those that have never heard of "thigh gap" and are unaffected by these things...good for you! That's awesome. However, just because you have never personally heard of it doesn't mean the phenomenon doesn't exist. I heard of "thigh gap" through social media, reddit and just by virtue of having young women like my niece in my life. Heck, do they even make teenage magazines anymore?
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07-31-14, 12:51 PM | ||
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Maybe you need to do some navel-gazing yourself. You sound bitter, which is kind is a shame because you actually have some good points. |
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Oh man, this is so timely! I just found this article over at Breaking Muscle. You guys have to check this out :
http://breakingmuscle.com/mind-body/...-is-not-enough
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