Celebrity causes obesity
Not directly, obviously, but certainly for women that read 'women's' magazines on a regular basis.
Now, I'm a sensible Greer/Wolf raised feminist type ith some understanding of nutrition, and a fairly clear take on the evils of the media, but I still look at pictures of Katie Holmes 'amazing post-baby body' and sigh in envy. 15kgs in 2 months! How did she do it? It took me 2 freakin' years! Where's that annoying loose tummy skin that plagues most new mums? Where are the stretch marks?
I know there are many and varied social/cultural/political/economic reasons behind the ever-increasing collective girth of our country, but I suspect that the endless and pointless dieting cycle indulged in by most women is fuelled primarily by self-comparison with celebrity bodies.
We forget. of course, that most of these gals have personal trainers, dieticians, stylists and personal cosmetic surgeons to help them along the way, or we ignore the fact that we know this and still try to emulate what they have regardless.
It makes me nauseous to think of how much $$ women spend on trying to attain some physical 'ideal'. Money most of us can little afford.
Here's my admission. I want to look like that too. I can't afford it. Still, my monthly female shopping bill looks like this;
Moisturiser =$20
Compact -$15
Lipstick =$20
Hair-dye _$25
Feminine Hygiene products =$10
Deodorant +$10
Razors =$5
Shampoo & Conditioner =$13
That's $118 dollars! a month! on me! (Those of you that know me will prolly wonder where all this investment goes...I look like a very normal chick).
Oh despair. I do not have the $$ to be beautiful. I do not have the time to do 300 crucnches a day. My wardrobe lasts until it falls apart. Aaaargh! I just wanna be a woman....
posted by Cath @ 5:26 AM
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I always thought that Hollywood style skinniness came from a good dose of speed. Hey it worked for Iggy Pop and he survived on Hamburgers, so its said. And jam jars.
I always thought that Hollywood style skinniness came from a good dose of speed. Hey it worked for Iggy Pop and he survived on Hamburgers, so its said. And jam jars.
In the words of the immortal Billy Joel, You're always a woman to me. La da di da, da di da da.
Just remember that a male who disregards you because your appearance is not compatible with an air-brushed, plastic blonde plus or minus an eating disorder, is probably not worth your time anyway. Superficiality will only attract superficial men (or women).
I actually think that the magazine-fuelled urge to lose weight comes less from pictures of beautiful thin celebrities and more from the treatment of women who put on weight - any weight. Close-ups with big arrows pointing to the (perfectly normal) cellulite. According to the magazines, this is supposed to make us feel better, knowing that celebrities have flaws too. It doesn't. It just shows us how other women will punish us if we commit the sin of having normal female bodies. Sorry for the drama at the end there, but this one really pisses me off. And sorry for invading your blog! Followed the link from Cameron's
Australia's Most Wanted and Wrongly Convicted Karen J. Tonkin has journaled semiotic impressions from both experience and observation during two decades of imprisonment for a crime she didnot do:
I raise the question: 'What happens to an innocent man(person) condemned'? Drawing your attention to Australia's former Most Wanted and wrongly convicted woman Karen Tonkin who spent 18 years in prison as a result of a grave Miscarriage of Justice and a further 12.00 years on parole having been sentenced to Life. Can we imagine the terror of waking daily and knowing that 'I don't believe it! This could happen to me(you).' Don't think it cannot - it can. The accompanying adversity to the horror of injustice was a life behind bars where she was subject daily over a period of many years to drug and thump therapy, psychological mental and emotional abuse and other deprivations of liberty including sexual assault, rapes and attempts on her life. However, the Criminal Justice System has been keen to conceal Tonkin's treatment and the initial miscarriage, with everything from court orders and securely archived materials that could be used for DNA and clear Tonkin of the crime for which she has suffered in silence, Further Tonkin has been silenced by the courts, the State, the Church and the media. Don't tell me we really DO live in a free Democratic society where the basic human rights of people are acknowledged and addressed? Of course we know this is nothing more than a smoke screen. Why 'talk' Justice if you cannot actively make a stand. What happens to an innocent man condemned? Ask Tonkin who has not only survived but succeeded in overcoming unbelievable obstacles: Against The Odds. "What price human life?" Tonkin's moral and educational position has been reinforced at a cost none of would willingly agree to pay!
Asked why there has not been an effort to investigate her case Tonkin replies, "The last excuse was 'It was too long ago!' Then of course the 'evidence' disappeared. All the xhibits- the archived proof that would have proved that it was not my blood on the jeans.. They called me 'Scissor Killer for so long. The media made horrific headlines that influenced countless persons...when in reality there was and is no stab wound in or on the body. Amazingly, there is still no cause of death. Thirty years later it remains inconclusive and I am the scapegoat. I haven't killed anyone and I have yet to meet someone who is genuinely concerned with what is just and right. I have meant countless people from all walks of life over the last thirty years but I have yet to meet one just person. It is not important that I, a human have been wronged. But it will cost me lilfe. I have already lost thirty years out of my life. Do you have any idea as to what that is like? Can you imagine what it is like to be called SCISSOR KILLER by the media when infact no-one was ever stabbed!?"
1950- Born in Western Victoria, Australia
1973- Wrongly convicted and sentenced to Life Imprisonment, Queensland, Australia.
1989- Escapes: Australia's Most Wanted
1991- Re-captured New South Wales, Australia. Released on parole, Queensland, Australia.
2001- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2001
2002- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2002
2002- Admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Double Major.
2002/4- Commences Post=Graduate Degree: Master of Social Science (Criminology).
2003- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2003.
2004/5- Post-Graduate Degree: Master of Letters (Creative Writing)
In more recent years Tonkin's research focus has switched to Cesare Lombroso's 'L'Uomo Delinquentes' or Criminal Man (the Born Criminal, Labelling and Social Learning Theory and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Education.
The NT Coroner rightly asserts that "Due to the complexity of these reports, they are easily misinterpreted and can cause great distress."
How then can the complexity of such reports, and in particular, complex interpretations that include carefully woven and inconclusive guesswork, be accurately considered by jury members drawn from every day life. The man on the street doesnot have insights into such complexity and being uninformed in matters of a scientific nature cannot deliver judgement based on Hearsay and Circumstantial Evidence that provide no substantial or conclusive evidence.
This is a dangerous area in which I for one have been subject to corruption at the highest levels including the Coroner's Office and have been subject to one of the gravest Miscarriages of Justice in the [Australia] land. In addtion to wrongful arrest and imprisonment, unbelievable acts of brutality including drug and thump therapy assault and sexual assault rape and continued attempts of murder on my life, I continue to be subject to the emotional psychological and mental trauma of being wrongoly accused and treated accordingly. That this continues to go unattended and I continue to be silenced by the media and government is in itself an horrific crime against humanity on par with the suffering of those in the Bali Bombing the Holocaust and other crimes.
Forgiving my perpetrators was easy until I realised that they continue to deliberately suppress my Voice and my right to access what is just and right.
Pauline Hanson was recently reported as being 'Australia's First Political Prisoner'. However she is not. Karen Janette Tonkin is Australia's First Political Prisoner. It is a well-known fact that Tonkin was a long-term political prisoner under the Bjelke-Peterson Government- a most corrupt and artificial Government of Self-Interest that denied people the very right to basic democratic rights as is evident in the suppression of the voice of protestors largely comprising the Catholic Workers from Dorothy Day house in West End Brisbane.
As Psychiatrist Dr Eddie Young points out, "I have always believed that you are innocent. That you didnot do it. The truth will come out - it is inevitable- my only concern is that you may not be here to see it."
Karen is shy and looks away. I wonder how she copes? I wonder how she coped withe the abuse of prison in addition to the abuse of injustice?
More-over, I wonder how she copes with a society who has silenced her for nearly four decades. It seems Australia has little to be proud of by condemning innocence.
Monthly shopping list:
Moisturiser $94
Compact -$210
Lipstick =$105
Hair-dye _$145
Feminine Hygiene products =$60
Deodorant +$48.50
Razors =$15-25
Shampoo & Conditioner =$45
HAPPY BLESSED CHRISTMAS
Does anyone remember why we celebrate Christmas? When I heard on the radio - ABC - yesterday that this is the first time they willnot put out a Christmas stamp, that we are not allowed to make CHRISTMAS cards or wish anyone MERRY/HAPPY CHRISTMAS...ETC.. I felt sick. Without Christ there is no HOL[y]Day. How DARE others so effect our religious beliefs.
But then I dont see anyone standing up, speaking out, refusing to have others dictate what we believe so as usual - SILENCE CONDONES.
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