{"id":401,"date":"2016-01-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=401"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:59:52","slug":"hate-your-body-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/hate-your-body-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Your Body Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An imperfect old body<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It\u2019s another cloudy day though we did have a short break with sunshine. Those bits and pieces of light help keep my mood and spirits up. I have been reading on body image in quite a few places in social media, articles which are a backlash against being told how people should look. Yet at the same time as there is protest, more people are invested in the models of perfection that are being promoted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diet books are best sellers, fitness gyms and personal trainers are crammed into busy lives, and fashion is followed more rigorously than any religious creed. The foundational belief is that who we are and the bodies we have are in dire need of salvation. For those that don\u2019t measure up, don\u2019t become fundamentalists for the new human, there is only scorn and derision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have heard, and have heard of others who constantly criticize that \u201cso and so is a waste of fresh air,\u201d or \u201cshe has no choice but to be a nice person with that body.\u201d Men are ridiculed for wearing brief bathing suits, especially if they are older men or don\u2019t have \u201cabs of steel.\u201d We hear \u201cthere should be laws against bodies like that\u201d when men and women who are neither young nor firm. This is especially true when these imperfect bodies of men and women are naked or even scantily clothed. \u201cA woman her size should never wear a bikini.\u201d It isn\u2019t the nudity that is vilified as we have no issues with nudity of sweet, young things; physically fit younger men, or bodies that seem to invite us into intimate relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of what others say about the human body, we are the harshest critics of our own body. We just can\u2019t seem to see ourselves without the filters given to us by media, by our peers, and by \u201cpeople that matter.\u201d As a result, it often takes humans decades to give up on the myth of having a perfect body. At that point we either say \u201cto hell with what others think\u201d and dare to be real people in real bodies; or, we cloak ourselves in multi-layers and become personalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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