Search Results: body image and the media
Should we really have a plus-size Disney princess now?
Like a lot of kids, I grew up with those beautiful Disney princesses, from Snow White and Cinderella to Ariel and Belle. I also grew up with Barbie and yet, I'm not some image-obsessed female who wants to kill...
How to Be Happy by Realizing Your Problems Don’t Matter
DISCLAIMER: I'm long winded even in text. If you want to skip my little introduction here, I won't be #offended. I know, I haven’t written a take in forever. Sorry folks, #life happens and June/July happen to be very busy...
How To Lose Excess Weight Safely, If You Are Overweight
First of all, if you want to lose weight, then you have to do it for good reasons. Doing it for bad reasons can decrease your motivation and confidence in yourself. A bad reason to lose weight is to appease the people...
Mixed Girl Tag: 10 Questions Answered
Hello Gagers! In case you don't know what a mixed girl tag is, it's basically a bunch of questions people have about mixed people. A lot of people are curious as to what it was like for us growing up and they tend to be...
Why You're Never Going To Be "Perfect"
The image of beauty is so distorted due to society. It's come to a point I hate getting on social media apps such as; Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, even on here because all I see is hate and it's disgusting. To social...
Why I Think Women Are More Sensitive to Rejection
Women getting rejected isn’t a much talked about thing in society, although it does happen more than most people really realize, and especially more than women themselves are going to even admit. Females generally don’t...
Why Girls Have it Harder Than Boys
Guys have it easier. They didn't have to grow up with the media, fashion magazines, and advertisments persuading them their body, hair, and face isn't good enough, thus have to deal with the body and beauty image worrying...
Why Photoshopping Models Isn't A Bad Thing
I see a lot of complaints on photo-shopped models and how it creates unrealistic expectations for girls and causes them to feel negative and have body disorder issues like anorexia or bulimia. #SeeMyWork. Now I'm not...
Forget Make-Up, Clothes and Weight, and Just Feel Beautiful Being YOU
So I'm the typical girl with insecurities - We could work together, go out for drinks together and probably spend an extended amount of time living together without you ever realising I probably spent more time worrying...
Radical Self Love and Why Self-Image is Critical, With Guest Gala Darling
Is the idea of self-love increasingly foreign to you? Do you feel as if you can't get excited about anything, can't get motivated to do anything, and can't seem to look yourself in the mirror? In short, would you say...
Handsome Men From Around the World: 12 Male Beauty Standards
From the recent popularity of my other myTake, Beautiful Women From Around the World: Atlas of Beauty , I have decided to do a take on men around the world, and the standards of physical appearance that society holds for...
Arguments Against Romance Novels And Why They Are Stupid
https://twitter.com/sarahmaclean/status/700716177702649856 Sarah Maclean posted this on twitter and it is glorious. I will proceed most carefully. Romance writers and fellow romance readers please don't kill if I screw...
Why Men and Women Should Band Together and Tell the Media to Shove It!
I have been on G@G for about a week and a half now. It has made me realize something that was already obvious, but hadn't quite clicked in my head yet. We are being played. Both genders are being played by the media to...
Are You Beach Body Ready?
Welcome to the new age of feminism. Being offended by everything and raging about it on social media. I LOVE that Protein World didn't bow to the minority and actually INCREASED sales because of this though. Some...
Kim Kardashian new selfie: HOT OR NOT?
So I'm sure everyone has seen the new selfie that "broke the internet" yet again. If not, just google it and you'll see her with blonde hair and two black censor bars covering her chest and vag. So my question is: Hot or...
10 Ways Baking Soda Can Change Your Life
10 Uses for Baking Soda aka "How to Stay Fresh for BAE" Sodium Bicarbonate NaHCO₃ (aka baking Soda) is a chemical compoud, commonly used in the average household for keeping the refrigerator fresh, cooking, and teeth...
Kimberly Seltzer: The Dating/Makeover Expert Gives Singles the Gift of Hope
Dating is this wondrous dichotomy of excitement and anxiety. It's a heady blend of wildly unpredictable emotions and feelings. It can run the gamut between the nightmarish "you would not believe this date I had" and the...
20 Funny Differences Between Men and Women
Yes, we are all the same species, but our genders can almost seem from two entirely different universes at times. I never understood these differences until I stepped foot into high school and had a glimpse for myself at...
Society's Unrealistic Beauty Expectations
Let me be the first to admit, I have no idea what society is expecting of me as far as my beauty is concerned. Usually when I hear women complain about the beauty standards that are ridicuously unatainable I think they're...
Guys, do you like skinny/thin girls?
I've always been insecure about being naturally thin. I workout 4X a week to gain muscle and have somewhat of a butt... Do guys find bodies like this attractive or no:?...
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