It Sucks Being Female...

...It ain't just hard being a woman, it is fucking irritating!  Last week I was most pissed off by this piece, in the Comment is Free Section of the Guardian website, written by Zoe Williams.  Ms Williams thinks all women who worry about their weight are "vain and stupid".

Sure I'll admit that weight loss, dieting and body shape hardly require Mensa membership to grasp, but am I really stupid for losing weight to improve my health?  I don't think so bitch.  I'll take living longer thanks.

Upon reading the article at first I thought oh she's got this piece all wrong, she shouldn't be dissing overweight, intelligent women for losing weight, but instead slating all this focus on becoming size zero.

That got me thinking - is the average sized woman really stupid for being concerned about her weight?  After all you'd have to have a brain made of steel not to notice all the images, magazines, newspapers, clothes shops and general attitude of other women about body shape.  Today women can have it all, but must also remain beautiful and thin.  Rarely it seems that intelligence is something to be sought after.  But to say women are stupid for being affected by all this is just naive.  Worst of all, this mentality is impossible to shake off because it seems to me that this desire to be thin is being perpetrated by women, we are body fascists.

However where does health fit into all of this?  And vice versa.  This is a complex issue and it is hard to draw a line between being healthy and some fucked up desire to be a size zero, whatever that is. 

So Zoe no woman is stupid for being concerned about her weight, we are just the biggest victims in society's current examination of body shape and we don't need another woman slating us.  You can fuck off.

Comments

[Melissa]

You are so right, it's such a f*****g dilemma for women these days and I feel really sorry for young girls who have so many expectations from their peers too. I have stayed overweight for years and just said stuff it all, I'm intelligent,happy, in a nice relationship etc, I am more than my body size. However it was the health issues that have made me address it and the psychological issues that have arisen have been fascinating. But even when one tries to research health and fitness its all a bit posey and designer sportswear ! Yuck ! Melissa :)