Monday, April 22, 2013

Killing us Softly

They might be killing us softly but watching that video made me feel punched in the gut hard. Which i think is what every woman feels when we see an unattainable image in the media, followed by your soul sinking to your feet. I often feel like the young woman from "The Craft" movie were she looks at herself in the mirror but her image looks away. I cant even look at myself sometimes because my face is to real-haha- to real because it is a failure and a reminder that I'm not the ideal for society and most important myself. Not like we are bombarded with beautiful brown natural haired sisters with a little thickness for me to attain to. And not like i think this all the time, just some.........
........The movie is telling me what i know.That woman are objectified and seen as just parts not a whole, and are torn down and made to feel lesser then because if you let somebody stay whole like a real person you might have to respect them and bring them to the table. Like racisim when black people had to force white people to see them as humans and make them bring us to the table. Kinda like in the movie "A Time to Kill" the all white jury was set to kill Samuel L Jackson because he had killed the men that had raped his daughter not until the lawyer said, "imagine if this was your daughter" did the jury finally get it. Maybe if every man was garanteed a daughter and told she will be treated how you treat woman for the rest of your life would things change.

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