A light at the end of the tunnel

I often write articles complaining about how society over the years has completely destroyed the goddess and female image while making men feel it is their right, as men, to own a media image fed doll of their very own. Ok here I go again, don’t get me started. I find a lot of things appalling, but if you look at the total imbalance in the world how can one not SEE the truth. Half the female population routinely brutalized and degraded my men, being treated as less than dogs, and then the western world where women are increasingly starving themselves, opting for plastic surgery distorting their true selves and real beauty, buying into crap the media is shoving down our throats at every turn.

I love my wrinkles, my cute round tummy curve, and my less than perfect tits. This is my one life; I refuse to spend it being eye candy to a male dominated population. And if that means I never date again, or spend years concentrating on my female friends, my lovely sisters, my marvelous son, my arts and crafts, the zillion things I want to accomplish, the places to see……can you see where being single is not really a death sentence?

On that note I found this marvelous site. Any of you who actually watch top model, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

http://www.about-face.org/

• To encourage a healthy skepticism about media images and the messages of popular culture
  
• To empower young people to feel confident about their individuality, their abilities and their bodies
  
• To encourage individuals to identify and give voice to their opinions
  
• To educate parents to empower their daughters and enlighten their sons
  
• To identify companies that show women in unrealistic, distorted or vulnerable poses and hold them responsible for their negative imagery
  
• To endorse companies that promote diverse and healthy images
  
• To educate on subjects of sexism, lookism and the obsession with weight in our culture
  
• To create alternative images through posters and art installations
  
• To educate through lectures and special programs in schools
  
• To use playful and original ideas to generate cultural change
  
• To promote appreciation of diversity and gender equality in schools
  
• To provide a forum for discourse and serve as a resource to researchers, educators and policy makers as well as popular media and cultural trendsetters.
  
  Check out these links as well.
  http://www.guerillagirls.com/
  http://www.feminist.org/
  http://www.motm.org/
  
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