Blog 8

The end of the book the Beauty Myth did not bring me closure. Wolfe says in the last chapter that we, as women, should just learn to love our bodies. I understand where she is coming from but throughout the whole book she told us how it is so hard to love our bodies because of society. If it were really as simple as learning to love our bodies then we would not have this problem in the first place. I wasn't the biggest fan of the book in general because I felt that Wolfe rambled on about what point she was trying to make, when she had already made it five sentences earlier. It just makes me lost in the book and forgetting what her original point was.
In comparing Valenti and Wolfe, I think I would much rather read Valenti. Wolfe makes great arguments and some of them are really interesting, but the language she uses is like reading a report because of all the cases and statistics that she uses. Although Valenti used lots of foul language (which was very unnecessary) it was easier to read as a whole.
On of the most interesting Body Outlaws stories I have read recently is "Sizing myself up: tales of a plus size model" by Kate Dillion. I think that it was interesting because it tells of how a women is so un-confident with the way she looks because that is what people tell her. She was a victim to what society told her was beautiful. Although she fell a little harder because she was in the fashion industry, but I think every women goes through a part in their life where you just can never look pretty enough or never be skinny enough. In reality nobody is that skinny and it is all just computerized. She went from being a totally underweight model to a plus size model and was never so happy with her self. I think that is very inspiring to show that being that skinny is not always happy.

(The top picture is Whitney from America's Next Top Model- the first plus size woman to win the contest. The bottom picture is of Kate Dillon herself)