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Jocelyn commented on the blog post Why I Will Never Back Down 1 year ago · View
Thank you so much for the encouragement! In a weird way, it is a kind of empowering experience
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Jocelyn wrote a new blog post: Why I Will Never Back Down 1 year ago · View
Originally posted on my blog . An open letter to those who think sexism is dead and the darn feminists need to stop being so angry: I haven’t been blogging much lately, so when I noticed that I was getting a lot of page views, and a few really angry comments, I was curious. The majority were [...]
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Jocelyn wrote a new blog post: Our bodies are not the enemy of our “authentic” inner selves 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Originally posted on my blog . As I’m sure many of you have as well (depending on what demographic your computer thinks you belong to, I suppose…), I have seen this ad pop up on various web sites I’ve visited over the last little while: Usually the image is accompanied by a flashing line of text proclaiming: “53-year-old [...] -
Jocelyn commented on the blog post Why YOU are beautiful, full stop. 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Thanks for the feedback! And for your post that helped me work through some of the issues I was having with these images. And yeah…this picture shows an absurd range of sizes as the “ideals” and “averages.” When did “real” women become so freakin’ tall (I’m 5’3″, so I might be a little sensitive to [...]
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Jocelyn commented on the blog post Why YOU are beautiful, full stop. 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Love it!!! That is absolutely perfect.
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Jocelyn commented on the blog post Why YOU are beautiful, full stop. 1 year, 3 months ago · View
OP here! Yes, definitely, thank you both, Angelica and Kristen Dunn, for expanding upon my original analysis–incredibly valid and valuable points. This was definitely something I noticed but it did not feature prominently in my post, so I am very glad that you brought attention to these issues of race in the discussion of beauty [...]
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Jocelyn commented on the blog post Why YOU are beautiful, full stop. 1 year, 3 months ago · View
OP here! Thanks, you’re right–they might be UK averages, I’m really not sure. Since I’m smaller than a size 4 (in Canada), I definitely found the image on the left to be much smaller than what I imagine a size 4-8 to be. However, the points about body shape versus body size are totally valid–we [...]
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Jocelyn wrote a new blog post: Why YOU are beautiful, full stop. 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Originally posted on jocelynthemaster.blogspot.com. So here’s the thing. This picture that’s been circulating around Facebook… …is BULLSHIT. I know that not everyone who has posted this has been all “OMG THIS IS SO EFFING TRUE LOVE YOUR BODY <33333333″ and that many people have used it as a jumping-off point for more critical discussion about fat shaming [...] -
Jocelyn wrote a new blog post: Why YOU are beautiful, full stop. 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Originally posted on jocelynthemaster.blogspot.com. So here’s the thing. This picture that’s been circulating around Facebook… …is BULLSHIT. I know that not everyone who has posted this has been all “OMG THIS IS SO EFFING TRUE LOVE YOUR BODY <33333333″ and that many people have used it as a jumping-off point for more critical discussion about fat shaming [...] -
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