This is a series of ads from the early 20th century right up to the 1970s.
You might notice what they’re advertising is, instead of the weight loss solutions we’re used to today, they’re actually advertising weight GAIN.
‘It’s hard to believe they once called me skinny!’
‘Skinny girls are NOT glamour girls!’
‘a skinny, scarecrow figure is neither fashionable nor glamourous!’
‘thousands quickly gaining beauty-bringing pounds!’
Notice how less than a hundred years ago, these ads were meant to shame thin bodies the way weight loss ads shame fat bodies today? Notice that how as time goes by, the ‘ideal’ body shape changes from era to era? Notice how in these ads as well as those seen today, they’re meant to make people feel bad about the way they look?
These ads are just as bad as the ones that run today. They’re meant to shame you and make you feel inadequate for one sole reason: so you go out and spend money on their products. It’s not about your self esteem, your health, or your happiness. It’s about selling the product. It’s about making the money.
Your body is NOT wrong. You don’t need pills, diets, or supplements to make you happy, attractive, or ‘right’. All bodies are good bodies. It doesn’t matter if you’re skinny, fat, tall, short, disabled, scarred, anything at all.
Do not let the media dictate what you think you should be. The media is fickle. It does not care about you. Don’t let yourself care about what it says.
Love,
Awesome!!! How did a media that started like this end up so fucked!
Repeated for emphasis:
These ads are just as bad as the ones that run today. They’re meant to shame you and make you feel inadequate for one sole reason: so you go out and spend money on their products. It’s not about your self esteem, your health, or your happiness. It’s about selling the product. It’s about making the money.
Further proof that beauty is a social construct.
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Sacheen Littlefeather, refusing the 1973 Best Actor Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando (The Godfather). Brando was protesting the entertainment industry’s depiction of Native Americans in film and television, as well as what were then the recent events at Wounded Knee.
I freely admit I know very little about either Littlefeather or the incident that prompted her appearance. I do know that she is extraordinarily beautiful and her speech (severely abbreviated from the 15 page letter Brando wanted her to read) was an elegant moment in what must have been a nerve-wracking situation. Watch her refusal here.
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Mi amiga Gloria is on the left [pinkcusi.tumblr.com]and I am on the right [puteveryonetosleep.tumblr.com]. We are two California chicana activists who visited the Sistersong Womyn of Color conference in Miami. Connect with us if belong to SoCal<3](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpp2k57nCn1qb1uqso1_500.jpg)
Mi amiga Gloria is on the left [pinkcusi.tumblr.com]and I am on the right [puteveryonetosleep.tumblr.com]. We are two California chicana activists who visited the Sistersong Womyn of Color conference in Miami. Connect with us if belong to SoCal<3
Blue Dragon Nudibranch / They feed on the poisonous Man of War Jellyfish, collecting the animal’s toxins and storing them in little sacs on the end of their feather-like “fingers.” The Blue Dragon can produce a much more powerful and deadly sting than the Man of War due to its ability to store the poison.
food in my stomach will mean
that that that
i know better
he says
i know better
they will say
i know better
i say
Do i rather see my inner guts rip open?
yes i do yes i do
dry skin diarrhea sick tongue constipation
my delight
they killed me
they killed me
not me.
this culture has left me runnin on empty
i do declare the nutrients
lift
but i rather die than grow
the shit around my waist
i know better
i know better
the war is in my intestines dude
~anonymous
