Feminism :: Body Image
Body image is closely associated with self esteem. Most of us have issues with our body that lead us to feel inadequate and unlovable. Whether it's our height, weight, skin color, or facial features, we don't feel pretty or worthy enough. Often these feelings are dealt with in unhealthy ways, through eating, shopping, dieting and endless plastic surgeries. We are beautiful as we are, no matter way we are. Embrace ourselves. Love ourselves.
FAT: What No One Is Telling You
In an excerpt from a PBS show, one woman talks about her relationship to her mother and her weight. She realizes it's about taking control over what she puts in her mouth. She stresses how important physical appearance is in attracting a potential partner. One day she found herself sitting at the park alone crying, feeling sorry for herself that she is alone on a Friday night, that people don't like her because she is fat. They are not going to get beyond her fatness to get to know her. It's true that people can be that shallow. But beyond the physical appearance, the more important issue is health. Fatness does not lead to good health.
Tiffany Lynn: Weighs, Measures, and EATS!!
Tiffany Lynn, wearing nothing more than her underwear, measures her body, weighs herself, and eats three cheeseburgers, a large fry, two shakes and a pint of ice cream while we watch. She can eat! She weighed and measured herself before she ate and after the big meal. She illustrates the saying, "We are what we eat."
Body Image and Self Esteem
Teens and professionals talk about their relationship to their body and how that's affected by how others see them and images from media. Self esteem is how we feel about ourselves. We have to learn to love ourselves in order to accept from others. One woman talks about how she matters just because she exists. It's a matter of accepting who we are and being comfortable in our own skin.
A Fat Rant
In our ever fattening nation, Joy Nash tells everyone, "It's okay to be fat." That's the message. Joy talks about being comfortable in her body. She's 224 pounds. She talks about her inability to buy clothes her size. It's about self-confidence. Life is not over because of fatness. She doesn't believe in dieting because most people gain back the weight in two years. Joy encourages fat people to do what they need and want to do and not wait until they lose wait. It's about people feeling good about themselves regardless of their weight. Fat is not an insult. Stop putting life on hold and enjoy life. Life is too short and too precious to waste.
How to Shower: Women vs. Men
This video about the hygienic, bathroom habits of men and women, in the way they shower, is one way of looking at the differences between men and women. This husband and wife team takes the video camera into the bathroom to illustrate the differences.
It starts with how to shower like a woman - the preparation, the breast examination, the different shampoos used and conditioner, shaving of arm pit and legs and drying. The man's habits involve checking out manly physique, blowing nose, peeing in the shower and drawing his penis on the mirror, upon getting out of shower.