![]() ![]() If anyone has reading suggestions along that line, I'd personally appreciate it. It might help loosen up some too rigid conceptions. I know it's a complicated and flawed book, but I wish more people would read something like The Beauty Myth to get an idea of just how much influence capital, culture, and time have changed our perception of what counts as healthy, beautiful, and worthwhile. Not only are they holding fast a double standard, they're cleaving to a flexible, entirely amorphous ideal and acting as if "health" were a valid cornerstone for building that ideal up. There is a whole lot of misinformation out there about body types, the way different sexes grow and age with respect to body fat and musculature, and the way culture affects our perception of what is healthy, attractive, and normal. It's also funny how many people equate fat with an unhealthy lifestyle. ![]()
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