Dawson’s Speak
8 comments | August 2nd, 2011
Rosario Dawson is a truth speaker. And in the lastest issue of Shape Magazine she's speaking her truth and mind about expectations of women, women's bodies and the pressure to "maintain an ideal body type.""It's a form of violence in the way that we look at women and the way we expect them to look and be for what sake? Not for health, survival, not for enjoyment of life, but just so you could look pretty."
The article and Rosario continue with her talking about how after losing serious weight to play the role of an HIV/AIDS infected drug in "Rent," she got compliments about how she looked. “I remember everyone asking what did you do to get so thin? You looked great,” Dawson recalled. “I looked emaciated.”
It's not the first time we've talked about this @OOC and no doubt it won't be the last (sadly). What role do you think popular culture and the popular media play in setting YOUR beauty ideals?
Are you susceptible, immune, or something in between to the images of "ideal" beauty you're shown? What's your ideal and is your version of ideal something you are or can be? Let's talk.
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Rosey
Posted on August 2, 2011
I heart Rosario, (and not because our names are similar).
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J.P.
Posted on August 2, 2011
I’ve always been 5-10 pounds overweight my whole life. No matter what I do, I just don’t ever seem able to get past these extra pounds for more than a few days at a time. So I’ve stopped trying and come to accept that a little extra me is the way it is and Ive grown really okay with that. It’s me, it fits, and I’d rather love it than fight it.
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OOC
Posted on August 2, 2011
JP, good on you. Total inspiration.
Keep on loving it! XO, OOC
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Jemma
Posted on August 2, 2011
I really do get her point, but “a form of violence” seems a little harsh to me.
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OOC
Posted on August 2, 2011
We hear where you’re coming from, Jemma. If you look at the numbers of young girls and women who are unhappy with their bodies, with their weight, with their looks…there’s something bad going on out there that is causing a lot of women pain. We suspect that majority of folks who are complicit in this (and that includes all of us) would want no part of “viloence against women”…but what they want and what they do have to start lining up with how people are feeling and being made to feel. By and large, it’s not good. Does this make any sense? Thanks for joining the conversation…
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Right on
Posted on August 2, 2011
I think Rosario rocks!!! Never would have put it that way, but she is so right!
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DB
Posted on August 2, 2011
Wish I wasn’t swayed by all the images, but I am… Summer is the toughest. How many people look good in a bathing suit?
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Rach L
Posted on August 2, 2011
not me:(
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