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Пост в Инстаграм про Адель побил все рекорды по просмотрам и комментариям - тема BODY IMAGE волнует нас не меньше, чем раньше, а возможно даже больше. Давайте в продолжение дискуссии почитаем Брене Браун и ее книгу «I thought it was just me but it isn’t»:
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«I think the best way to learn critical awareness is to apply the concepts to a real issue. Let’s start by looking at the issue of appearance and body image. I like to use this issue as an example because it is an almost universal shame trigger. To begin to understand the big picture we need to ask the following big-picture questions about appearance:
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• What are the social-community expectations around appearance?
• Why do these expectations exist?
• How do these expectations work?
• How is our society influenced by these expectations?
• Who benefits from these expectations?
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While each of us would probably have specific answers to these questions based on our age, race, ethnicity [этническая принадлежность], etc., for the purpose of the example I’m going to respond with broad, general answers.
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First, what are the social-community expectations of appearance? From a societal level, appearance includes everything from hair, skin, makeup, weight, clothing, shoes and nails to attitude, confidence, age and wealth. If you pile on [сложите] community-specific expectations, you might have to add things like hair texture, hair length, skin color, face and body hair, teeth, looking “done-up,” not looking “done-up,” clothing and jewelry.
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Why do appearance expectations exist? I would say they exist to keep us spending our valuable resources—money, time and energy—on trying to meet some ideal that is not achievable. Think about this: Americans spend more each year on beauty than we do on education.
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How does it work? I think the expectations are both obvious and subtle [тонкий]— they are everything we see and everything we don’t see. If you read fashion magazines or watch TV, you know what you are “supposed to” [предполагается что ты должна] look like and how you are “supposed to” dress and act. If you look hard enough, you also see everything that’s missing—the images of real people. If you combine what’s there and what’s missing, you quickly come to believe that if you don’t look a certain way, you become invisible; you don’t matter. What is the impact of these expectations?
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Well, let’s see. . . .
• About eighty million Americans are obese [страдающий ожирением].
• Approximately [Примерно] seven million girls and women suffer from an eating disorder.
• Up to nineteen percent of college-aged women are bulimic [булимия].
• Eating disorders are the third most common chronic illness among females.
• The latest surveys [опросы] show very young girls are going on diets because they think they are fat and unattractive. In one American survey, eighty-one percent of ten-year-old girls had already dieted at least once.
• A research survey found that the single largest group of high-school students considering or attempting suicide are girls who feel they are overweight.
• Twenty-five years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only eight percent less than the average woman; now they weigh twenty-three percent less. The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than five percent of the female population—and that’s just in terms of weight and size.
• Among women over eighteen looking at themselves in the mirror, research indicates that at least eighty percent are unhappy with what they see. Many will not even be seeing an accurate reflection. Most of us have heard that people with anorexia see themselves as larger than they really are, but some recent research indicates that this kind of distorted body image is by no means confined to those suffering from eating disorders—in some studies up to eighty percent of women overestimated [переоценивают] their size. Increasing numbers of women with no weight problems or clinical psychological disorders look at themselves in the mirror and see ugliness [уродство] and fat.