This blog is taking shape in my mind. It is becoming, not a diary, but a space in which i can exercise my omnipotence without the fear of being arrogant :). There are countless topics and opinions that I reluctantly swallow in normal conversation, but here I can unleash my anger- derived from the fact that I obviously know EVERYTHING and nobody listens to me. See Camila, I finally think you were right about one think: I do think I am the Dona da Verdade - because I am.
So this entry is dedicated to my point of view,- on the issue of female body image and male perception of the aforementioned - that went shamefully under emphasized in IM conversations I had with friends on a cloudy Friday morning.
It started with the old question:
Co-worker : what should I have for breakfast? Do you think if I ate a breakfast burrito it would be bad?
Mari: No, it sounds good, it is food.
Co- worker: Yesterday i felt like throwing up, I saw my stomach and popped in the Pilate's video. hahahaha
It should be noted here that my co-worker is about the most fit person I have ever ever seen. Like marathon running fit.
Mari: You look fine.
Mari: I feel really chunky too, us girls are never in peace.
Co-worker: My brother said boys like girls like us, with meat on the bones.
Mari: I finally lost weight and it was all from my boobs.
Co-worker: bye bye boobies.
then a friend logged in.
Mari:My skinny co-worker wants to lose weight, the end must be near (picture here that Chicken Lil poster with his butt sticking up in the air)
anyway the conversation went in the direction of guys caring a lot about how girls look. According to my non-scientific, though largely sampled research, guys care. But really not that much. But my friend insists that physical appearance is very important.
I agree, but I feel that girls care more about how their friends look than guys.
Here is where it gets arrogant ("up simba!" - got on my horse):
I know what's wrong. And what's wrong is that we don't have eyes of our own. So not only we rely on others to tell us who we are, but in case they fail to tell us who we are we seek the answer by comparing ourselves to one another.
(ok, getting off the horse now)
Anyway, I still think we think too much about this shit.
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The thing that I generally notice is that appearance and body image matter initially. Usually, (and I admit that this is a fault, but that it is something I succumb to) appearance plays a part in the initial attraction. You haven't spoken with the person, or even learned anything about them. So, body image becomes the first criteria with which to judge a potential mate. That, however, is as far as it needs to go. A person's body will always change and so you need to grow with it, or at least accept those changes.
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