Comments on: Your body is your home. http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/your-body-is-your-home/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth G. http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/your-body-is-your-home/#comment-4932 Elizabeth G. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:51:09 +0000 http://www.fatnutritionist.com/?p=211#comment-4932 I know, I know, I'm commenting on an ancient post, but what you said here about how our bodies assert our right to exist reminded me of a sort of... hypothesis I have. You know how the" ideal size" for a woman seems to keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller? I wonder if that's an expression of a subconscious desire in our culture for women to... take up less space? Assert ourselves less? Forget about that right to exist? I especially wonder about the obsession with the stomach area. Why are we ashamed of this particular part of our bodies? That's where the uterus is. It's where we grow children. It is a source of womanly power. Pregnancy is the one awesome feat of a woman that no man can ever hope to replicate. It is not the *only* awesome feat of women, but it's the one thing that's uniquely ours. So why are we so afraid to show evidence of this? Why isn't it okay to have a tummy? These are the thoughts that run through my head sometimes when I'm looking at my own tummy in the mirror, though I've never really admitted it "out loud" before. Why is that roundness shameful? You'd think it would be symbolic of womanly power. Hmm. It's a thinker. Maybe I'll put it in my own blog... I know, I know, I’m commenting on an ancient post, but what you said here about how our bodies assert our right to exist reminded me of a sort of… hypothesis I have. You know how the” ideal size” for a woman seems to keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller? I wonder if that’s an expression of a subconscious desire in our culture for women to… take up less space? Assert ourselves less? Forget about that right to exist? I especially wonder about the obsession with the stomach area. Why are we ashamed of this particular part of our bodies? That’s where the uterus is. It’s where we grow children. It is a source of womanly power. Pregnancy is the one awesome feat of a woman that no man can ever hope to replicate. It is not the *only* awesome feat of women, but it’s the one thing that’s uniquely ours. So why are we so afraid to show evidence of this? Why isn’t it okay to have a tummy? These are the thoughts that run through my head sometimes when I’m looking at my own tummy in the mirror, though I’ve never really admitted it “out loud” before. Why is that roundness shameful? You’d think it would be symbolic of womanly power.

Hmm. It’s a thinker. Maybe I’ll put it in my own blog…

]]> By: HeatherJ http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/your-body-is-your-home/#comment-1659 HeatherJ Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:10:58 +0000 http://www.fatnutritionist.com/?p=211#comment-1659 I love this! Thinking about my body as my home immediately makes me feel at peace with it. I need to write this out in big letters and stick it somewhere highly visible. It may help with the long, hard slog that is learning to stop hating my body. I love this!

Thinking about my body as my home immediately makes me feel at peace with it. I need to write this out in big letters and stick it somewhere highly visible.

It may help with the long, hard slog that is learning to stop hating my body.

]]> By: meerkat http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/your-body-is-your-home/#comment-64 meerkat Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:57:20 +0000 http://www.fatnutritionist.com/?p=211#comment-64 Gratuitous AT-AT yay! Gratuitous AT-AT yay!

]]> By: Ann http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/your-body-is-your-home/#comment-51 Ann Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:55:32 +0000 http://www.fatnutritionist.com/?p=211#comment-51 I'd never questioned my mind vs. body assumption before, but I totally do that all the time. I think intuitive eating is a great way to start turning that around. Great post! I’d never questioned my mind vs. body assumption before, but I totally do that all the time. I think intuitive eating is a great way to start turning that around. Great post!

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