Monday, January 29, 2007

the beautiful-ugly

path of little gold stars, take 3

Please indulge me in a moment of introspection.

The lovely, talented, and insightful Amanda of Orchestrated Happenstance is tackling the subject of body image and its impact at a second blog called The Beautiful-Ugly.

She writes:

What is your beautiful-ugly?

A beautiful-ugly is hard to behold. It's striking, odd, contorted, misunderstood, and unique. It's something by which you can't help be entranced, something on which you can't help but focus. But, it's also something you just want to turn away from. There is a beautiful-ugly in each of us. It's that weird thing that you always find yourself doing, that maybe you wish you didn't; that thing you focus on, about which you wish you could care less. Or maybe you really love your beautiful-ugly because it makes you, you. What if we stared into the beautiful-ugly, confronted it face to face, and tried to embrace it for making us what we are? What's your beautiful-ugly?

and requests replies. The site, inspired partly by Naomi Wolf's book The Beauty Myth, is mostly targeted toward women, but I think it's worth a look by gentlemen as well. Everyone's experience is valid, I believe. Please take a moment to click on over and give Amanda's work some thought.

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posted by Jill at 9:21 PM

4 Comments:

  • Some very insightful thoughts over there, and shockingly, I posted mine :)

    Nothing wrong with indulging a little introspection either... it is certainly only fair. I have been punishing my readers with introspection for awhile (but I am sure it is good for them :)

    By Blogger jedimerc, At Mon Jan 29, 11:31:00 PM 2007  

  • You take some of the most creative pictures I've seen on the internet. The belly shot is real real great, but the gold stars make it unique.

    By Anonymous Lou P., At Tue Jan 30, 09:31:00 AM 2007  

  • "Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches
    Had bellies with stars.
    The Plain-Belly Sneetches
    Had none upon thars."

    I always find it so interesting that most women think men don't have body image issues. Many of us do, but we complain about it differently. Or, make jokes about it, to cover our embarassment at not looking like those guys on the cover of Men's Health.
    I tell you, Jill, I'm well past the age when I'll ever make a lady swoon over my looks, if I ever had that cleverly concealed capacity at all. But, sometimes, the secrets that a little age can bring do make up for what we've lost. That goes for women, too. (See what you have to look forward to when you get old?)

    Lovely picture and an interesting project. I'd comment on her site, but, last I checked, she disallowed non Blogger people.

    By Anonymous Network Geek, At Tue Jan 30, 03:49:00 PM 2007  

  • I am now singing "Happy Trails" after seeing the star path. I can only get myself in trouble with this line of thought, so I will go for now. I will leave you with a terrible run on sentence so you too will be affected by this and remember me all day.
    Jill, In an attempt to grow, both spiritually and mentally, I have undertaken a challenge to be the man who stands true, who only does those things that are good and just without ulterior motives and I am abandoning this comment as to avoid undue strain on my quest, so know you this, I will smile several times today with apparent random-ness-ness while in actuality it will be each time I think of anything trail, path, happy place, flat and/or taut, star, gold, orange (any citrus fruit actually) or exploring related. Thank you.

    By Blogger Spaceman Spiff, At Wed Jan 31, 08:52:00 AM 2007  

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