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Old Mar 07, 2016, 12:40 PM
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Personally, I find all kinds of bodies to be beautiful, whether they embody more strength, more delicacy, some or another cultural or exotic difference that we are blessed to still have among us to appreciate, or some expression of their artistic vision... whatever it may be that makes each person special, vive la différence! For myself, once I stopped worrying about how I compare to physical norms or averages (and who'd want to really be either of those anyway) or to how anyone else thought I should look, people were far more attracted to my confidence and spirit than they could ever have been based on mere appearances. I only ever knew that I was attractive by learning to compare myself to no one, and to appreciate the beauty of my own uniqueness.

Bodies are just containers for the spirit, and body-shamers are just uneducated jerks whose nonsense opinions advance nothing. Let them keep their stupid shame for themselves; they certainly deserve it.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.
Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)

Last edited by vonmoxie; Mar 07, 2016 at 12:55 PM.
Thanks for this!
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