Love Your Body

[eumelia]

I was sent a link to here and had to repost it on my own.

Because of various issues people have with the human body this is probably considered not work safe, but there is no way this is going behind a cut.

תזייני אותו.
תאכילי אותו.
תגני עליו.
תחבקי אותו.
תרחצי אותו.
תקשטי אותו.
תעריצי אותו.
תשמרי עליו.
תכבדי אותו.
תעסי אותי.
תגלי אותו.
תפנקי אותו.
תצבעי אותו.
תריחי אותו.
תענגי אותו.
תקניטי אותו.
תקשיבי לו.
תחשפי אותו.
תלבישי אותו.
תפשיטי אותו.
תסגדי לו.
תחלקי אותו.
תאהבי אותו.

תרגום מאנגלית מאת נמרוד הלפרן

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.

Comments

[warlordkittens.livejournal.com]

fantastic!

[nurint.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one bothered by her armpits being, probably very unnaturally, free of hairs?
Eating disorders get the spotlight because they kill (something I doubt waxing has ever done), but concept wise - you'll get more women waging wars on their hair than on any other part of their body. It's just embadded so deep into our culture - it's taken for granted that hairs are icky, as long as they're not on your scalp. Doesn't that just sound obsurd when you give it a second thought? They're hairs. They occur naturally. They shouldn't be considered disgusting. They are just as beautiful as the rest of the body they are a part of.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

You're making me feel guilty for shaving my pits and waxing my legs...

*sob* I'm weak!

But what you say is absolutely true!

[nurint.livejournal.com]

Don't feel guilty, just... Be aware. You know?
Question your own motives for waxing and shaving, try and find where it's your voice and where it's society's voice. Try and think what you'd tell your own daughter if she came to you one day in her early teens and asks you why you wax and if she can as well.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I am aware, very aware, and it is bothersome.
I'm really worried about my nephews and niece (especially Libby) about how to communicate that being hairy is natural and that Aunt Mel is indoctrinated to hate her body. Small LOL.
I guess that's the reason I make sure to remove the hair on head as well, *grin*.

[cue-revolution.livejournal.com]

i know it's just hair and it's natural but i really hate having arm pit hair because it means more odour/wetness. i shave because it's practical, not for aesthetics.

[nurint.livejournal.com]

That's fairly legitimate. I'm just worried that this hair-is-evil cultural conception is so deep people end up making up excuses for it (like "it's more practical", or "I like the way my legs feel smooth"). If we lived in a culture that didn't have the hair issue, would all those reasons be enough to get you to activelly get rid of hair?

Love your icon, btw :)

[warlordkittens.livejournal.com]

it may be absurd, but some if not most of us do it anyway. i think it's more comfortable and yeah, i'll admit to conforming to those social norms set by god knows what kind of a patriarchal bastard.
i see your point, but i don't think that the girl in the picture has to defy every social norm possible just because she's used for the campaign. the campaign itself says, of your body, "decorate it", "pamper it", "paint it", and i think that's open to interpertation.
having said that, it is very enraging that men generally don't have to battle their bodies as much as women do, although there is an interesting development here on the subject of equality: the 21st century seems to me a much more equal one, when it comes to fighting bodily functions, hair and weight. except, instead of making women love their bodies, men are now supposed to hate theirs, too. yay for equality!

[nurint.livejournal.com]

Hey, I still conform to those norms as well (though I do take added pleasure in dating women that don't). I don't know if I'll ever be able to shake them, but I'm trying.
I'm not so sure those norms were set by the patriarch - the whole "looking smooth and delicate" serves to set women apart from men, as being less connected to their inner-ape and such - and that's the type of preception that could easily be the matriarch's fault.
I don't think that the girl needs to defy every social norm possible, just the ones that go against her accepting and loving her body as it is. But maybe I am asking for too much? At least she looks happy and isn't a twig, which is a great thing to show.
Yeah, this whole metrosexuality deal is quite amusing in a very sad way. I'll second your "yay for equality!" :P

[warlordkittens.livejournal.com]

i couldn't believe it when i saw it in men i wouldn't even consider metrosexual!

[tu-tartaruga.livejournal.com]

I love this post!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

It would probably be more impactful if it were someone that were obese or even a little more obviously overweight. The model is heavy but still has a pretty flat stomach.

Also, yeah. Very Not Work Safe. I couldn't read my friends list today at work because of it.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I think it's her joy and free spiritedness more than her weight.

I realise that it isn't work safe, but why? There's only one bad word there and her nipples are showing, if she was wearing a bikini top it would be okay.

Society is strange.

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

I would bet money that that woman was picked because she's overweight and I think it undercuts the message it's trying to get across by depicting a model without so much as a pooch. It's nice, sure, but I don't think it's very effective at all.

And it's not work safe because he's fully topless and nudity's verboten. I think the policy's stupid too but I have to follow it if I want to keep my job.