It's sad to see all the fighting we've done for women's rights slowly fade in the background, like it's nothing.
What is the image we want to portray, girls? That our whole identity is solely tied to how pretty we are? To how many heads we can turn with our toned asses?
I'd rather turn heads with my intellect.
I'm not saying that I'm not superficial. Because God knows I can be really freakin' superficial. But it doesn't mean that I can't see the regression that's been happening.
What's so strange with being pretty and smart? Or do those two entities just not mix?
How many more times do I have to see a girl pinch her side and call herself fat? My God! It starting to make me sick to my stomach because I see it so damn often.
Why do we think less of ourselves if we aren't the ideal? And who is the ideal anyway? Girls that society thinks look perfect have been airbrushed. And those ideal girls think they have flaws as well, and wish they could find "ideal beauty." What a horrible game we play everyday! What a horrible cycle that is...
Where does it all end, anyway??
I've ranted about this before...but it continuously pisses me off, cause I hear it EVERYDAY. EVERY freakin' day (I'm not exaggerating) I hear a girl say that she's not good enough. EVERYDAY. "I'm not skinny enough" or "I wish I could take away these freckles" or "My skin is broken out, and I don't want people to see."
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. If we constantly keep putting ourselves down, we'll forever be trapped, and it will be our own doing.
Really, I just want to live to see a woman president. Sadly, I don't know if I'll get to see that in my time. How we expect to come off as strong leaders, when we can't even see ourselves that way?
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What makes a woman beautiful to me???
That light within. A light that shines past superficial wishes, and shows the true brillance of a woman: her heart, her intellect, her soul. It is a light that cannot be powered by the shade of your lipstick, but rather the kind of person that you are.
Because I don't know about you, but I don't want my clothes, my make-up and my body to define who I am. I am beautiful despite those things.
Oh--and one last thing. Plastic surgery does not make you look younger...it makes you look like you've had plastic surgery. Plain and simple.
--this is the end of Ashley's rant--
