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Ladies in knickers

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Cameron2012 · 03/05/2017 12:55

I am curious as to wether anyone feels ' empowered' by the pictures in the papers and on media of famous and random women in their knickers, standing with other women in their knickers showing off their ' real' bodies.
I just don't get it, looking at other peoples imperfections doesn't make me dislike my own,stretch marks, big tummy etc any less.
Does it really make any difference to anyone's self body image? does anyone feel empowered by this? Seriously?
Or is it just pictures of ladies in their knickers?

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SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 03/05/2017 13:20

No, I don't find it empowering, I struggle to understand why it would be. It's just people in their knickers. I suppose it might be different if they were doing something inspirational like saving kittens from house fires in their knickers, or inventing a perpetual motion machine in their knickers.

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Cameron2012 · 03/05/2017 13:19

Today someone showed me a women in the bath breastfeeding her baby and ' showing off her stretch marks to, ' empower other women and show that breastfeeding is natural', I mean WTF. Is she crazy? Why would you do that?

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NavyandWhite · 03/05/2017 13:10

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walde · 03/05/2017 13:07

It's bizarre isn't it. It's like they've latched onto the idea that images objectifying beautiful women is a Bad Thing, so we need to replace it with images objectifying ordinary women. This spectacularly misses the point that what is damaging is images that objectify women in general and what we need a full paradigm shift in how women see themselves and each other.