1. Yes, I completely get it. I feel the same way about the body hair thing, as I stated before. The pressure to remove armpit and leg hair is so strong from the time of puberty that it is almost impossible to thread out one's own desires from the idea that not having body hair is the correct way to be. I tend to never come down on people who shave, but I find myself always suspect of their motives, and certainly critical of what effect their actions may have on other women.
2. I've tried to reword my thoughts on this a thousand times but then I realized that you already understand so never mind. :)
3. So... how do I promote my own feeling of having a goal of healthfulness, without making other women insecure. I agree with you about furthering the diet culture. I don't want to do that, but I do want to watch what I eat and how much I exercise, and alot of the lingo is already tied up in that culture. Do I need to use different language to distance myself from that insane version of dieting culture? Would that help? "Diet" does bring to mind horrors and denial and misery, even though really the word just means habitual nourishment, or to eat food according to rules.
I'm sussing this all out on your journal in half-born format, I hope you don't mind.
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Date: 2004-03-03 10:53 am (UTC)2. I've tried to reword my thoughts on this a thousand times but then I realized that you already understand so never mind. :)
3. So... how do I promote my own feeling of having a goal of healthfulness, without making other women insecure. I agree with you about furthering the diet culture. I don't want to do that, but I do want to watch what I eat and how much I exercise, and alot of the lingo is already tied up in that culture. Do I need to use different language to distance myself from that insane version of dieting culture? Would that help? "Diet" does bring to mind horrors and denial and misery, even though really the word just means habitual nourishment, or to eat food according to rules.
I'm sussing this all out on your journal in half-born format, I hope you don't mind.