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Originally Posted by Kiya
I haven't read all the posts - but yours brings to mind the social environment we all live in. the images we all digest about what "is ok/isn't ok" what "is acceptable'. there's not a single person living in the technological age that is not affected by out society's standards; fashion, agism, beauty, etc etc... it is amazing that anyone can feel validated in our public environment and I doubt that there are lage percentages of women who do not feel that same self-hate. It eats at the Western world.
There's my 2 cents =)
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I agree, Kiya. I have been affected in various ways by the culture. Its where we live and how we grow up, yet there are a lot of women who are better able to transcend these things than others. They can confidently (more or less) be themselves and feel peaceful about who they are reagrdless of the pressures around us all. I do feel like I can be one of those women. I have always marched to my own drum, yet, there are attitudes that are SO ingrained in me that the self-hate I have for myself points to these attitudes, the cultural ones, and says, "See, you dont measure up, you cant do it, everyone else does, but do you DONT!" If only there wasnt so much self-hate and more self-love, I think my attachement to some of these attitudes would fade.
Did I make any sense? Or do only I understand what I mean?
