Comments on: Feminine Aesthetics: “Body image” http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/05/01/feminine-aesthetics-body-image/ For a well-considered visual environment Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TAE http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/05/01/feminine-aesthetics-body-image/#comment-2096 Wed, 02 May 2007 13:26:46 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/05/01/feminine-aesthetics-body-image/#comment-2096 See, I’m aware of this now. But I certainly was not when I (as a male) was 11. And even if I had been informed, how much difference would it have made? To a Jr. High boy? Who are we kidding here.

At a prayer retreat in college I noticed a girl wearing cow slippers. I “moooed” at the slippers. The girl, who I didn’t know, later told me not to do that again.

It took a day to figure out why.

But if she was so sensitive in the first place, wouldn’t she have thought of the potential for such a thing before wearing the goofy things??? I’m now married to a very sensitive lady, and still don’t understand how she interprets my most inocuous statements as some sort of derrogatory comment.

How much does the unrealistic, emaciated American female physique set up by Hollywood, TV, advertising and so forth play in to these types of scenarios?

]]> By: Sheila West http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/05/01/feminine-aesthetics-body-image/#comment-2095 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:31:30 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/05/01/feminine-aesthetics-body-image/#comment-2095 Yep. One ass-head comment like that at the delicate age of 11 is exactly how it starts.

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