I really appreciate hearing your thoughts on this. I had been wondering. So I thank you for sharing your viewpoint.
I don't know if this will seem like a good analogy to you or not, but I think I understand what you mean about worrying that you may seem like you're saying one thing but doing another. I've always felt (and said) that women should feel good about ourselves and the way we look and not feel pressured to conform to society's standards of beauty...and yet I had copious hair on my chin and neck and I went ahead and got it lasered off. Can I believe both view points? (Accept yourself as you are! But don't mind me as I endure pain and pay lotsa money so that people won't look at me as if I'm a freak!) But I do think, as you articulate above, that there is some grey area here, as there usually is with everything.
So just wanted to thank you again for sharing how you feel.
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Date: 2008-02-01 12:59 am (UTC)I don't know if this will seem like a good analogy to you or not, but I think I understand what you mean about worrying that you may seem like you're saying one thing but doing another. I've always felt (and said) that women should feel good about ourselves and the way we look and not feel pressured to conform to society's standards of beauty...and yet I had copious hair on my chin and neck and I went ahead and got it lasered off. Can I believe both view points? (Accept yourself as you are! But don't mind me as I endure pain and pay lotsa money so that people won't look at me as if I'm a freak!) But I do think, as you articulate above, that there is some grey area here, as there usually is with everything.
So just wanted to thank you again for sharing how you feel.