Shake That Thang

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annieelainey:

dougthethug7:

godownwithalltheships:

astroprojection:

morgangoesrawrs:

ai-yo:

alwaystalking2myself:

daniellemertina:

annieelainey:

RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN: Repeat after me: Be more critical of the media, be less critical of yourself.
Why spend your time nit picking in the mirror? Why not question the track that brought you to this point? WHY ARE YOU SO CRITICAL OF YOUR BODY? There are a number of reasons, but for now, let’s just look at one. Why not question the media/advertising? Use that energy that you use to criticize your reflection, to change the world, not your body.
Killing Us Softly 4
Beauty Pressure
Miss Representation
The Illusionists
America: The Beautiful

The funny/ ironic thing about ALL of this is that it further marginalizes WoC. Self-love is only ever talked about in relation to white women, if it is spoken about at all.
I watched nearly all of these trailers and some of them didn’t have a single non-white woman in them.
So what you’re telling me is that there are no white women who *really* fit the image of beauty since they’re all air brushed/ computer edited but that I as a black woman am SO far from the standard, that they needn’t even bring me up. LOL. That’s one reason why I don’t watch TV. And one reason, why I don’t bother with things like this.

damn…didnt even notice. in fact i thought i had deleted this or left it in the drafts so i could check it out….-sighs- summadatbull… :(

I have watched 1, 3, and 5. And they only touch briefly on WOC. America the beauty moreso and I think it’s because it was made by a Black man. They talked about the colourism within POC communities and there was a scene where a tried to make a Black actress lighter and he was just so racist playing into that eugenics crap and of course blamed it on bipolarism.

Honestly this is addressing one problem. To bring race into the issue seems rather left field. Why is that a main focal point instead of the message of good self esteem these videos are trying to convey? I understand that only a few ethnic women are shown but isn’t that true to the marketing world? Ads on a general scale are mostly white people. Is that a good thing? Of course not. However it’s how America views the campaigning world. It’s unfair and unjust though really the underline principle here to the love yourself. Don’t criticize it.

It’s hard to love yourself if media companies think you’re not even worthy of being represented, and this is especially the case for WoC and other women of marginalized identities. It’s pretty bad when someone makes a documentary towards women and doesn’t even try to do better than the media industry itself in reaching out to all women.
The fact that you think race is irrelevant to this conversation of self perception is why better documentaries and media analyses need to exist.

And we should just let go of the fact that so few WOC are represented in the OP in and in the media instead of criticizing it? What? You just went against one of the messages of the OP.

And Annie Elainey is oddly silent.

I’ve been without computer access so I am just finding out about this thread. There is a lack of POC in the media, there is no denying that. Documentaries about media physical ideals (which most of these are TRAILERS for, not full pieces) will often actually bring up this issue. The sentiment remains the same, “be more critical of the media than yourself”, take your self-esteem into your own hands and do not fall mercy to our current media and the ideas of “beauty” that they want to sell.

dougthethug7:

godownwithalltheships:

astroprojection:

morgangoesrawrs:

ai-yo:

alwaystalking2myself:

daniellemertina:

annieelainey:

RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN: Repeat after me: Be more critical of the media, be less critical of yourself.

Why spend your time nit picking in the mirror? Why not question the track that brought you to this point? WHY ARE YOU SO CRITICAL OF YOUR BODY? There are a number of reasons, but for now, let’s just look at one. Why not question the media/advertising? Use that energy that you use to criticize your reflection, to change the world, not your body.

Killing Us Softly 4

Beauty Pressure

Miss Representation

The Illusionists

America: The Beautiful

The funny/ ironic thing about ALL of this is that it further marginalizes WoC. Self-love is only ever talked about in relation to white women, if it is spoken about at all.

I watched nearly all of these trailers and some of them didn’t have a single non-white woman in them.

So what you’re telling me is that there are no white women who *really* fit the image of beauty since they’re all air brushed/ computer edited but that I as a black woman am SO far from the standard, that they needn’t even bring me up. LOL. That’s one reason why I don’t watch TV. And one reason, why I don’t bother with things like this.

damn…didnt even notice. in fact i thought i had deleted this or left it in the drafts so i could check it out….-sighs- summadatbull… :(

I have watched 1, 3, and 5. And they only touch briefly on WOC. America the beauty moreso and I think it’s because it was made by a Black man. They talked about the colourism within POC communities and there was a scene where a tried to make a Black actress lighter and he was just so racist playing into that eugenics crap and of course blamed it on bipolarism.

Honestly this is addressing one problem. To bring race into the issue seems rather left field. Why is that a main focal point instead of the message of good self esteem these videos are trying to convey? I understand that only a few ethnic women are shown but isn’t that true to the marketing world? Ads on a general scale are mostly white people. Is that a good thing? Of course not. However it’s how America views the campaigning world. It’s unfair and unjust though really the underline principle here to the love yourself. Don’t criticize it.

It’s hard to love yourself if media companies think you’re not even worthy of being represented, and this is especially the case for WoC and other women of marginalized identities. It’s pretty bad when someone makes a documentary towards women and doesn’t even try to do better than the media industry itself in reaching out to all women.

The fact that you think race is irrelevant to this conversation of self perception is why better documentaries and media analyses need to exist.

And we should just let go of the fact that so few WOC are represented in the OP in and in the media instead of criticizing it? What? You just went against one of the messages of the OP.

And Annie Elainey is oddly silent.

I’ve been without computer access so I am just finding out about this thread. There is a lack of POC in the media, there is no denying that. Documentaries about media physical ideals (which most of these are TRAILERS for, not full pieces) will often actually bring up this issue. The sentiment remains the same, “be more critical of the media than yourself”, take your self-esteem into your own hands and do not fall mercy to our current media and the ideas of “beauty” that they want to sell.