She, Self Love and Social Media
{Cover photo: @nude_yogagirl on Instagram}
Changing attitudes towards the female body.
A movement blazing with fuller force than ever before.
More and more celebrities and influencers alike are making stands on social media to eradicate the problem of slut shaming.
To communicate to women that revealing a little skin is in fact OK.
The encouragement to accept it for what it is without immediately labelling it sexually.
For generations, people have believed without question that revealing skin is derogatory. This has resulted in a population of women feeling self-conscious and often unworthy time and time again.
🤦♀️She & The Past
We all know that women haven’t always had it easy during the course of history.
Some examples:
She’s been regarded as inferior, denied acceptance of sexual urge unlike her male counterparts, and deemed unclean during menstruation.
Expectations regarding clothes has also been a very hot topic for generations. The female body often has objectifying connotations such as, inappropriate, dirty and a trigger for sexual misconduct.
In reflection, it’s truly bizarre how hers should be degraded anymore than his.
Women have been made to feel that they will only be taken seriously and respected when dressed in a more conservative manner.
Skirts to the knee, hair to the shoulder, cleavage covered at all times, all this in order to be dignified, to be a good woman.
Currently, yes there has been significant progress and yes, women can freely dress as they please (depending on culture of course), however the issue of modesty still remains an issue.
🙋♀️She & The Present
The rise of social media has paved the way for newer problems regarding the types of photos women share of themselves. There’s an underlying resentment in society towards vanity and discomfort towards public display of self-love and confidence in the form of bare skin.
If you stop for a minute and remove all preconceived judgements, consider this, why is vanity regarded as such a bad thing?
Self-love is the most powerful thing you can do in life.
As long as you’re not hurting anyone, why should you have to think twice to taking a photo of yourself looking and feeling really good?
When you have complete confidence in yourself and release the fear of judgement, you’ll find yourself turning the golden key in the door to a happy life.
Now, I’m not saying self-confidence on a selfie snapping level is the key to winning at life by all means. However, complete confidence in how you show yourself to the digital world can be a stepping stone to self-confidence in the real world on an every day basis.
In a world where anxiety is more problematic than ever before, embracing and accepting yourself outside and in is so essential if we want to continue evolving as a species.
🏃♀️She & The Future
What we are beginning to see now is more and more online influencers are the advocates of change by exposing themselves more explicitly on the internet.
As Generation Z begin to grow up and determine the future of culture, we can see that embracing the body for what it is is becoming more and more normalised on a collective scale.
The intention, to tear away from the hard-engrained, objectifying and prude sexual response to one of acknowledgement without label.
This body of Eve shared by 50% of our species must be respected for the beautiful, natural and intelligent form that it is, not to be objectified or shunned shameful.
🧞♀️She & The Creatures of Habit
Growing up, we can subconsciously make judgements based on the opinions of the people around us, particularly those who we value most.
As I’ve mentioned, we’ve been born into a world where for many generations, revealing skin has been deemed unacceptable. Therefore without realising, we spontaneously take on this perception as our own.
Remember when you were 3 years old, running around the garden in your birthday suit without a care in the world?
Oh to be able to do so that boldly at 21.
Imagine if you were born in a place where the body was accepted as thoughtlessly as an apple growing in a tree…
Instead we’ve been born into a society where the body is met with cringes as red as tomato patches.
🧜♀️She & The Dawn of a New Era
But now, times are finally beginning to change.
Consciousness is emerging…
It’s time to embrace the body for the natural phenomenon that it is, without such malevolence.
Our bodies represent who we are on a physical level, and underneath our garms we’re more or less all the same…
Cultural evolutions take time.
Thanks to our rapidly interconnected world, influencers are taking advantage of encouraging the ever-growing younger generation to change.
To evolve away from the outdated association with sin towards confidence and pride for our rawest selves.
Normalising nipples?
Accepting ass?
At the end of the day, all parts of us are quite simple just what they are.
Every inch of skin a puzzle piece fitting together to complete our biological nature.
Just think, wouldn’t life just be a hell of a lot easier if people just didn’t CARE as much?
All that stress we put on ourselves just by getting flustered over a photo…
It’s only gonna make you grey faster folks!
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Tori xoxo
1 Comments
georgia
24/07/2018 at 00:01
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