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Like...you believe women should have equal rights...mostly? Except when you don't?
Femnism isn't about proving that you're equal. It's about making sure that the law actually reflects that (it doesn't), and that we question cultural and social norms that seek to limit that equality.
So unless sometimes she thinks women shouldn't have equal rights, that makes no sense.
I can't even touch the ED comment because I'm kind of tired of people asking models about it. They tend to say the same thing...it's all the media, or it's barely the media. It's not particularly nuanced and it just furthers the idea that ED's are superficial. #cindycrawford
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FEMININE-ists on the other hand... #cindycrawford
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As a North American female, I have no idea what it's like to live in a culture without TV and where it's OK to be round. *Not* thinking about how my body measures up has never been an option for me. Since a very young age, I've never had a day when I didn't check my body in the mirror or think twice about what I ate. That kind of depresses me. I didn't get to choose my culture, and now I'm stuck with the body-image thing whether I like it or not. Yuck. #cindycrawford
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We are conditioned every day to believe something that we might not have otherwise.
I do not think I would have developed my eating disorder if it had not been for this conditioning. I know the leading organizations on eating disorder say that it is mainly genetic but how they say so when basically everyone has been through this conditioning? #cindycrawford
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However I think that the internet is making up, in some degree, for what the educational systems of the world lack. Photoshop disasters, Jezebel, and even those sites that show what food really looks like opposed to what it looks like in advertisements are helping. #cindycrawford
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is like saying "I'm not a Christian, but ... " and then reciting the Nicene Creed. #cindycrawford
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And some people, I think, are reluctant to call themselves feminists if they're not what I guess you'd call ACTIVE feminists. Like, they believe in all the tenets, but they don't read blogs like this one or spend a lot of time thinking/arguing about the specifics. I think the word "feminist" implies activism to a lot of people, whether or not that's valid and whether or not that's a good thing.
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Chicken/Egg
Egg/Chicken
? #cindycrawford
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Frankly, I'd rather have my (future) daughter think that unusal body quirks are what make you beautiful, rather than your weight. #cindycrawford
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Are you a feminist?
No. I mean, I believe women are equal and deserve dignity and equal pay and that we shouldn't be defined by our gender and that we should have autonomy, but no I'm not a feminist. I mean, I know I'm equal so I don't need to be a feminist. I think women are good drivers and that we shouldn't be beaten and that we should get to vote, but no... not a feminist. No feminists here.
Do people really think feminists think they don't already know women and men are equal?
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Q: Fashion gets blamed for encouraging eating disorders.
"That's a little bit of a stretch. I don't know that much about eating disorders, but I'm certainly not one of the people they've blamed, because I'm not super-skinny. I think people want to find something to blame. An eating disorder is way more than a girl looking at a magazine and seeing a picture of a skinny model. Maybe that's one tiny piece of the puzzle, but I think it's a lot more about self-esteem and self-love and control, so it's too simplistic to just blame it on models who are skinny." #cindycrawford
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It's just as fair to say that self-esteem isn't the main issue in an eating disorder, since plenty of people have that and don' t try to starve themselves to death (bearing in mind that not all ED's are restrictive).
Each individual has different triggers, different reasons why an ED was/is their outlet. Not only does our culture idealize slim bodies, but it also idealizes body control, weight control, and dieting/food. Our culture has an extremely dysfunctional attitude about women and their bodies, our role in the world, everything.
To me, it's the conflict between all of it that helps create an ED in the individual. It's all interrelated.
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It's certainly a component for some people but it's not all of it.
I think the media perpetuates certain cultural ideals, which influences the individual. So it's a component. But trying to make ED's only one thing bothers me. It feels like a way to ignore the complex nature of them. #cindycrawford
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Furthermore, while self-esteem does play a large role in eating disabilities, I do not think it is reasonable to say that the fashion industry does not create a climate that is detrimental to the self-esteem of young girls. Much of the marketing that is out there today is all about improvement, improvement, improvement, buy this product, try this exercise, do this, do that, don't do that - there is a low historical precedent for the message that young girls are good enough just the way they are. #cindycrawford
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