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Feb. 16th, 2010 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWomen power, seriously.
A friend of mine made a post which led to a discussion on body image, and the use of 'Rubenesque' as a descriptor either for praise and acceptance or for shame. So on and so forth. It reminded me, or maybe highlighted for me, that English at least as a language has very few positive descriptors for women, specifically for women body types. There's all kinds of adjectives that refer to qualities, like "stunning" or "sexy" or "gorgeous" but very few refer to specific qualities, and most people associate those words with whatever body types happen to be prominent and praised in the culture of the time.
Ladies! Start your mental engines. Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your body.
A friend of mine made a post which led to a discussion on body image, and the use of 'Rubenesque' as a descriptor either for praise and acceptance or for shame. So on and so forth. It reminded me, or maybe highlighted for me, that English at least as a language has very few positive descriptors for women, specifically for women body types. There's all kinds of adjectives that refer to qualities, like "stunning" or "sexy" or "gorgeous" but very few refer to specific qualities, and most people associate those words with whatever body types happen to be prominent and praised in the culture of the time.
Ladies! Start your mental engines. Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your body.