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TED Talk: Meaghan Ramsey, "Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you"
This is from October 2014, but I didn't find it until recently.
Video: https://www.ted.com/talks/meaghan_ra...ou?language=en Subtitles and Transcript: https://www.ted.com/talks/meaghan_ra...pt?language=en Ramsey mentions some statistics: a majority of girls choose not to do things "because they don't think they look good enough," and 17% of women wouldn't go to a job interview "when they weren't feeling confident about the way that they look." "If you actually want to make a difference, you have to do something. And we've learned there are three key ways: The first is we have to educate for body confidence." "An education is critical, but tackling this problem is going to require each and everyone of us to step up and be better role models for the women and girls in our own lives. Challenging the status quo of how women are seen and talked about in our own circles." I'm not sure of what the third is, but this is my best guess: "Ultimately, we need to work together as communities, as governments and as businesses to really change this culture of ours so that our kids grow up valuing their whole selves, valuing individuality, diversity, inclusion."
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Your words here remind me of a number of things. For example, I saw an image on another site. On the left side, words like "small" and "delicate" are crossed out; on the right are words like "smart," "funny," and "kind." I've also heard advice to avoid speaking of our own body dissatisfactions in the presence of our children to avoid giving them the wrong ideas. I wonder: if these body dissatisfactions are bad for children, how good could they possibly be for us? What reminded me of this thread just now is a BBC news story from today. It reflects the TED talk: Pressure to look perfect hits girls' confidence, say Guides [i.e., Girl Guides, an organization similar to Girl Scouts in the United States] Quote:
The article links to the the survey site, which in turns links to the page about body confidence. That page begins with a quotation: Quote:
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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