Saturday, January 11, 2014

body party.

words.

"Lena Dunham’s nakedness on Girls is revolutionary and needs to be applauded, without reservation.

Look. We live in a world where beauty standards for women are in a terrible place. I’d like to blame that on men alone, but I can’t. Crappy, thin-white-dressed-to-the-nines beauty standards are delivered to a supermarket near you by the Vogues and Elles of this world every month. They’re on television, when even on the most female-centric shows, powerful, independent careerwomen still wake up in the morning already in perfect hair and makeup. The need to look perfect, is still the #1 demand in most women’s lives. And women suffer for that perfection — perfection being defined in ever more difficult and expensive and literally painful (think plastic surgery) ways. It’s unattainable. It’s impossible. Even the actresses with the round-the-clock trainers and stylists and makeup artists complain about how impossible it is, and end up in those “NO MAKEUP KILL YOURSELF” spreads in the US Weeklys of the world.

I say all of that because it seems this hasn’t sunk in for some people yet."

FLAVORWIRE: ‘Girls’ Whiplash Report: Why, Despite Everything, Lena Dunham’s Nudity Is Radical

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