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Whatever controversy may be going on there, there are still way too many girls (most of them are indeed very young girls and teenagers), who DO think that looking like a skeleton is beautiful. Sadly this entire problem is only the surface of something going way way deeper. The major reasons for anorexia are deepest fright and self-hate, up to the point of wanting to die and disappear entirely, literally… Usually this type of deepest hate is a very typical problem for young girls, facing for the first time all the real horrors of male-oriented society while growing up, but not only. That many people in western countries are overweight and that “skinny” becomes rare and thus a sort of wrecked “status symbol” is only making things worse.
“The Tuareg are “largely matrilineal”. In Tuareg society women do not traditionally wear the veil, whereas men do.
The most legendary of Tuareg leaders was Tin Hinan, heroine and spiritual leader, believed to have ruled in the fourth or fifth century CE. Tin-Hinan was a Berber princess and often accompanied by her sister Takamat. They came from the Tafilalt mountains in Morocco (Ataram) and founded a legendary kingdom in the Ahaggar mountains.” (from the Wikipedia article about the Tuareg)
tinariwen cler achel (via jamal4096) Desert blues from Mali, Africa by the Tuareg band Tinariwen
“Shyam Bhatia in London | An American academic, who teaches at the Warwick University in the United Kingdom, has described J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy as an ‘epic rooted in racism’.
Dr Stephen Shapiro, an expert in cultural studies, race and slavery, said the author used his novels to present bigotry through a fantasy world.(…)” Read More
The scary thing is that racist views are so “normal” in Northern Europe, that “this could not be racist”. Being a fantasy and science fiction fan, I loved those books as a kid, but later on, especially after the internet revolution, I have seen so much else which was so different (most notably Star Trek, where all races, genders and cultures are depicted as respectable and worthy living beings), that I could not go back to liking it anymore, and did not even remotely consider watching the movies. Maybe the future can bring different epic fantasy, where there is no need to consider a certain race as “subhuman dirt”…
**here is the rest of the post belonging to the title (I deleted this, because it was just endless lamenting and hate tirades, and not one positive thought or tip how to change :p)**
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It’s depressing to see this was re-blogged already almost 9000 times… But what is much more depressing is to see how many young women, who think that feminism is something “evil” and matrilinear cultures “never existed”, got so twisted up that even their bodies kill them inside out. If ALL your standards and beliefs and “knowledge” is made by men, then HOW the HELL are you going to like yourself for what you are, and care about your body properly??!
Since I got to know about feminism (at the age of 17!!) my entire life got turned upside down and I certainly stopped thinking of menstruating as a “bother” or a “sickness” or a “shameful problem”. Pains do not appear from thin air, as more you hate being a woman as more pains you will have. And as lesser you truly know about yourself as more you will hate yourself, living in this current male oriented culture. But remember, the male culture started 3000 years ago, BEFORE that we had at least about 32000 years of peaceful female oriented cultures, all around the world, where women were mighty rulers and had all the property, all the money and the family names were given from mother to daughter. During the “Moon” all women would gather in one place to sing and celebrate, and I am pretty sure that “cramps” and “pains” were unheard of. This knowledge is so suppressed that most women in modern times never ever heard about it, even despite the internet *sigh*
Take a quick look at this page for more info.
And here some tips against cramps and pains: rest as far away as possible from any women-hating idiots (both male and female) and as near as possible to kind, loving and supportive people (both male and female); avoid - or even better skip - ALL dairy products (here is the reason why); read feminist and spiritual women’s books (like “Our Bodies, Ourselves”, written by smart and truly knowledgeable women for other women —- those books do NOT omit essential details about your body!!); stop believing that feminism is “evil” — without feminism you would not sit in front of your computer today, but caged in some cramped kitchen full of screaming kids, without education or any way to change your life (it really pisses me off how young women take all they got from the previous generation literally fighting in the streets for GRANTED :( this will NOT stay “granted” if you go on like that!!); and lastly there is plenty of relief coming from techniques like acupressure or yoga.
Be kind to yourself, stop hating your womanhood and find people who truly care about you, and you will see “suddenly” how your pains “miraculously” fade.
“I didn’t know there was anyone like you. You were a surprise…When I knew I loved you, I was afraid because it meant needing you so much.”
— Reflections by Norah Roberts (via quote-book) (via lovebot)
This post was reblogged from wears heart on sleeve.
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