Devastatingly Diminished

Small and sexy. Thin is in.
Women and girls are bombarded with the megaphone of diminish-ment every day of their lives. Billboards, magazines, tv shows, and movies all advocate the message to be as small as you can be. For the life of me, I don't know why. I think the idea of beauty has become much too narrow. People ignorantly disregard the attractiveness of different body types and this obsession with weight is blind to so many other factors of true beauty. Jean Kilbourne discusses this phenomenon in her article, "The more you subtract, the more you add." She talks about how the media screams to the woman to diminish herself--to be beautifully barely there is the goal. Kilbourne carries those ramifications to an emotional and personal level as well. She describes how the media teaches us that the look in a woman's eyes, the shade of her lips, and the tone of her skin are how she ought to speak--not with words. She is never to be loud or assertive. She is to be seen and observed.
Silently stunning. Breathlessly beautiful. Devastatingly diminished.