mimi smartypants said it before I could:
Then I met up with S. for beer and we decided that having the body-image blues is dramatically worse for girls like me and her and, presumably, you, because we are all Bitch and Sassy and Janeane Garofolo and Beauty Myth and Kathleen Hanna, and it is so very Not Punk Rock to have the body-image blues, so then besides feeling like we are hideously deformed we also have to have this extra layer of guilt and shame and not-punk-rockness on top of everything. I am not saying that life is necessarily easier for the non-self-aware, not-so-terribly-cursed-with-a-sense-of-irony, vapid shallow fashion girls. Except that I think maybe I am.
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kim
April 17th, 2003 at 1:12 pm
i’m feelin’ that. i don’t know how to concentrate on exercise and eating well without it turning into body obsession. and i loathe it. and i loathe the whole concept of it.
Shawn
April 17th, 2003 at 1:57 pm
Its been my experience that life *always* seems easier for the non-self-aware, to the point that I occasionally wish I was one of them. They always seem free from any of the doubt that comes from quesioning anything about oneself
leblanc
April 18th, 2003 at 11:41 am
oh god. i didn’t need to think about that today.