Posted on 02/16/2020 3:05:38 PM PST by simpson96
Even Michelle Obama struggles to feel good about her body sometimes. In a recent discussion with Oprah Winfrey, the former first lady talked about fighting societal expectations as she gets older.
“We are so ridiculous as women,” she told Winfrey at the Brooklyn stop of Oprah's "2020 Vision" tour in partnership with Weight Watchers Reimagined, according to People. “We don’t want to talk about our age, and then we want to act like we should look like we did when we were 20, you know? When, I’m sorry, men you can look any kind of way. And it seems to be okay.”(snip)
As the first black first lady, Obama felt heavy scrutiny on the campaign trail and even in the White House. From her bare arms to her butt, every part of her image has been picked over publicly.
“People called me all kinds of things when I was campaigning for Barack, like it was a competition,” she said. “They called me un-American, and this stuff sticks with you. Men talked about the size of my butt. There are people who were telling me I was angry. That stuff hurts, and it makes you sort of wonder, what are people seeing? That stuff is there. And look, I’m a black woman in America. And you know, we’re not always made to feel beautiful. So there’s still that baggage that we carry, and not everyone can relate to that.”
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HAH! Far Side!
Deliveries are in the back Aunt Jemima .....
Meanwhile Melania...................
Never heard a man bitch about his body
Don’t give me that B.S.
The harshest, nastiest, meanest criticism of womens’ bodies comes from OTHER WOMEN.
(though I do have an issue with tattoos, because people make a conscious choice there)
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I never was against tats, I just chose not to have any. Then my wife Joy passed away Oct. 27, 2019.
In Dec. 2019 at age 73 I got my first and only one. A small heart on my left forearm with her name in it. I felt as if half my soul died with her, friend. The loneliness is incomprehensible. The tat helped a little bit.
Gosh, I am sorry to hear of your loss, Graybeard58.
My heart goes out to you. I often wonder how I will take it if my wife goes before me...I just can’t fathom it.
Don’t know if you are a praying person, I am trying to be, and said a prayer for you, FRiend.
As for the tattoo, it isn’t that kind of tattoo that brings out that reaction in me...it is the ones that go up the arms, neck, all over the legs and such.
I have always fully accepted a forearm, upper arm, and even a hand tattoo on men, and smaller ones on women in more discreet places.
My dad was career Navy, and I had no problem with men who got them on their chest or back, but there is some kind of prudish, conservative side of me that rebels when I see a lovely woman with lots of tattoos. There seems to be some...sacrilege...of something God made so beautiful marked with permanent ink.
Now, that is only my initial reaction. Once I meet someone, I deal with them on the basis of who they are, not how they have painted their skin. (unless they have them on their face, head, or neck...it takes me more to get past that, and I can)
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