Losing myself

Jul 21, 2008 18:14

I know I've always been preoccupied with thoughts of inferiority and low self-esteem, but I feel that over time I've worried myself more and more so over it. I believe that it is my exposure to more and more models who have tight abs, perfect skin, and slender over all, with no sign of cellulite. Working promotional jobs lead to exposure to women ( Read more... )

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scottreyns July 23 2008, 14:03:05 UTC
All too familiar, your experiences. While on one hand the marketing, promotions and entertainment industry does subject both sexes to criteria, supposed "ideals" apparently derived from ye ole "grass is always greener" and "we always want what we can't have" angles, it's totally true that women and girls are still tested by a lot of unique shit... and sadly, even in some of the world's more sexually-progressed cultures, there still is much work to do in getting people to be at least OK with one another and themselves... and eventually growing up to be enough in touch to see that there are many, many different dimensions of what's sexy both on the surface as well as just underneath once the real person can be known even just a little ( ... )

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I know it's late... selille December 28 2010, 20:56:04 UTC
Thank you for your long thoughts!

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left_coast_cat January 2 2009, 07:08:56 UTC
Sounds like a destructive atmosphere.

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