BODY AND CHARACTER: I got someone else's body Bashny.Net

Despite the fact that phrenology and physiognomy are recognized as pseudoscience and gone, we continue to use the same logic, according to which the phrenologists of a hundred years ago "determined" penchant for crime people with a specific form of the skull.

Ridiculous? Remember how often, looking at the complete woman, you attributed to her particular qualities – for example, they assume that she is lazy, or say that "bbw kind and cheerful".

Maybe you yourself have become the object of such "analysis" — for example, your chest associated with your sexual temperament, or figure – with the immaturity.





In the cultural space of the parallel appearance/character is the lead for creating characters that enforces and reinforces stereotypes.

From a certain point of view I was very lucky with cultural baggage. During my adolescence in science fiction books and movies, which fascinated my mom was a strong female heroine, then how many girls were shown mostly gentle disney princesses. They were on the cover – a beautiful woman in a chainmail bikini or a wise witch in tight-fitting dresses.

I still kept a few books Andre Norton, which I didn't grow up with a feeling that with girls there's nothing interesting. Happening. A woman can have wisdom, personal power and authority. Can she defeat the evil king and evil wizard, to save themselves, their families and the whole Kingdom.

Unless, of course, she's not fat.

Neither in my childhood nor my youth I did not see and did not read the descriptions of the heroines like me. My role models didn't possess a round face or a short wide body, which I had.

Solid bunch of "fullness – apathy, stupidity, laziness" becomes the reason why we find it hard to exist in bodies, which "does not suit us". We begin to feel that this is a bulky body or is that too "simple" face, this small stature or those round cheeks we got "by mistake", such a body should have been born another woman.

Full women in the culture space funny girlfriend of the main character, the caring mom, the nasty witch, or the stereotypical "stupid fat girl". Among the already small number of the depicted scientists, artists, muzykantom, active, intelligent, intellectual and strong heroines fat women virtually no. And if they are – to the final story, they should "realize their feminine nature" and become beautiful and thin.

Despite the fact that the degree of fatphobia high, and it really hurts both genders, in boys and boys are more examples to follow. Take Porthos of Dumas novels. Major body does not prevent him from living to the fullest, to not be "ugly friend" of the protagonist, as equal and Autonomous participant in the events, to women's admiration and sex, to show wit. When he acts bravely, no one says – wow, the fat guy can be tough. It is not perceived by others as an anomaly, he is in his right, he doesn't prove to others that "too man", he is strong and confident. Whether in our childhood, at least one such character?

It is considered that the body is a reflection of personal qualities, and the ratio of "appearance character" is a clear and indestructible.

You can say that fat women could, in fact, lose weight people to understand that they are not weak-willed, and intelligent and creative. But somehow Luzhin from Nabokov's novel "Luzhin Defence" was forced to go on a diet, for the world to recognize him as a great chess player.

Women of small stature obviously should increase that others have found that they are not infantile girls, and adults of a competent specialist, women with large Breasts have to decrease the power of thought or by surgery, so they stopped to see "frivolous", and so on.

This vicious situation, when on the basis of our bodies we attribute to personal characteristics not related to us and offensive to us, creates our desire to disown our bodies is not "that" form does not represent us as a person.

However, if we abandon attempts to characterize people shape their bodies (including to follow these ideas in relation to themselves), suddenly turns out that our body completely Express our personality. Women in music or visual arts, you know, as the body involved in playing a musical instrument or in easel painting, when working not only brush the dominant hand, but also the abdominal muscles, the leg on which to rely for stability, and so on.

The tool used to Express our creative ideas is the body. The body, plays guitar, body painting fantasy landscape. And the size of this body have little or no value. It would be strange to assume that a skinny writer create a better product than thick, or working on them efficiently. Weight scientific does not affect the effectiveness of its research.

Because the relationship between body size and personal characteristics – ARTIFICIAL. People invented it invented to determine the propensity for violence in the form of the forehead, and then realized that it was nonsense. The size of your body don't say anything about your personality. Breast form says nothing about your personality. The waist tells nothing about your personality. Point.

To get rid of this idea means is to understand that you have never had a body, "inherited by mistake." It's always been your body coping to the extent possible with its functions, you read these eyes, you went out with her feet. You have been a from head to toe.

 

Author: Sofya Egorova

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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