Found this quotation in a recent copy of My Weekly and thought it quite apt given the current trend to be "perfect", its by E.E. Cummings :-
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight; never stop fighting."
My daughter, like most young women her age, has a vivid interest in body image. In fact it has formed the basis of a couple of college projects for her. The various women's publications bombard us constantly with images of the "perfect" woman, all achieved with copious amounts of airbrushing until the model is beyond human and becomes almost plastic. And that's not including the body part models used in adverts to provide, say hands or whatever, along with someone else's face. You just cant believe what you see in the mags and to persuade young, impressionable women that this is somehow achievable and desirable is pretty irresponsible if you ask me. Its high time we saw real women in the magazines modelling real size clothes so that our young girls have a chance to grow up without being fixated about their size and shape, so that they realise we are all unique and should be proud of that simple human trait.
