Many people are taking their clothes off in the name of body positivity. But is that really necessary?
Megan, a blogger who loves posting pictures of herself in bikinis or lingerie in the name of being body positive and encouraging others to feel the same has being 'attacked' by some of her commenters who suggest that if she put more clothes on, more people would take her message of body positivity more seriously.
But she thinks that regardless of what we wear, we’re all due the same level of respect.
This is what she wrote:
' "We get that you love yourself but why do you have to be half naked?” “Put some clothes on.” “I’m all for body positivity but this is showing too much skin”. Fact: the amount of skin a woman shows has nothing to do with how much respect she deserves OR how much she respects herself.'
She goes on to say that ‘thinking ‘SEX’ or ‘SLUT’ or ‘PUT SOME CLOTHES ON’ as soon as you see any kind of nudity is something that you’ve been taught by a culture that tells us women’s bodies are for the consumption of other people and never for ourselves’ – and that women should be free to celebrate their bodies however they please.
Criticizing women for showing flesh is simply part of a wider issue of ‘hypersexualisation’ of female bodies which ‘every turn it simultaneously teaches us that our sexuality is shameful and that our bodies are scandalous’.
But, Megan is keen to point out, everyone can unlearn their attitudes towards nudity.
‘Flesh doesn’t automatically equal sex. Our naked bodies are not shameful. We are just as worthy of respect dressed or undressed and how much skin we show is up to us.'
*Trying to be body positive or help others accept their imperfections through nudity will not rule out the truth about who we are - sexual beings with the ability to be tempted and to give in to temptations.
Nakedness turns man on naturally so why make yourself an instrument of temptation or seduction to other people?
You can be body positive and cover up. Let's stop using this 'smart excuse' to make nudity or half-nakedness look good. It is what it is: wrong!
Megan, a blogger who loves posting pictures of herself in bikinis or lingerie in the name of being body positive and encouraging others to feel the same has being 'attacked' by some of her commenters who suggest that if she put more clothes on, more people would take her message of body positivity more seriously.
But she thinks that regardless of what we wear, we’re all due the same level of respect.
This is what she wrote:
' "We get that you love yourself but why do you have to be half naked?” “Put some clothes on.” “I’m all for body positivity but this is showing too much skin”. Fact: the amount of skin a woman shows has nothing to do with how much respect she deserves OR how much she respects herself.'
She goes on to say that ‘thinking ‘SEX’ or ‘SLUT’ or ‘PUT SOME CLOTHES ON’ as soon as you see any kind of nudity is something that you’ve been taught by a culture that tells us women’s bodies are for the consumption of other people and never for ourselves’ – and that women should be free to celebrate their bodies however they please.
Criticizing women for showing flesh is simply part of a wider issue of ‘hypersexualisation’ of female bodies which ‘every turn it simultaneously teaches us that our sexuality is shameful and that our bodies are scandalous’.
But, Megan is keen to point out, everyone can unlearn their attitudes towards nudity.
‘Flesh doesn’t automatically equal sex. Our naked bodies are not shameful. We are just as worthy of respect dressed or undressed and how much skin we show is up to us.'
*Trying to be body positive or help others accept their imperfections through nudity will not rule out the truth about who we are - sexual beings with the ability to be tempted and to give in to temptations.
Nakedness turns man on naturally so why make yourself an instrument of temptation or seduction to other people?
You can be body positive and cover up. Let's stop using this 'smart excuse' to make nudity or half-nakedness look good. It is what it is: wrong!
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