Super Sized Sex.

    The way that we have been brought up in life has a lot to with another topic that I have already blogged about. Media has had its dirty little hands in shaping our minds since its inception. The weekly ad mags and daily tv commercials help to distort our perspectives of our neighbors and selfs.
We as Americans strive to look like supermodels and gym trainers and when we don't reach these goals we are forced to feel horrible about ourselves.
  The idea that we must feel like horrible people if we don't live up to someone else's standards seems a bit contrite, in and of itself. Lets go ahead and make someone who weighs more,  is too short, or not the right fit, feel like shit just because they don't live up to what "society" thinks is beautiful. Isn't this kind of thinking elitist and didn't it bring about the practice of eugenics and World War I? So lets take a look at how we are shaping our society and possibly raising our selves and our children into little monsters that don't respect others. Lets take a look at how we treat big bodied people and lets talk about sex!!!!!!!!!
    What is it about large bodied people that we as a society feel that is so taboo? Why does one body type alertly make us feel uncomfortable when exposed nude?  It's because of the we way we are brought up that we believe that the only way to be sexy is to be thin (and if you're a guy, tall). For Americans this seems a bit unacceptable because two thirds of all us are overweight. So that means that two thirds of us feel guilty and wrong about our own body types? Thats insane! So why don't  we  start to utilize the media, advertisement, and entertainment to our own advantage. Why don't we make ourselves feel good for once instead of blaming ourselves for eating something that we desire?  Why don't we engage in healthy sex and not feel dehumanized for it?
   In the show the Homeland their is a scene where the main character has sex with a "fat" woman. The shocking part about this is that the scene is made to seem entirely honest and that both parties are doing this with no hesitations or strings attached. I say shocking because what we see normally in scenarios such as this is what follows this scene, where the couple goes out to breakfast and gets harassed by a couple of douche bags about a rather attractive fit man and fat (yet attractive) woman being together. This is a problem with society! Where men feel that they can harass someone because they aren't what society feels is Beautiful!
   As a collective we can start to feature more "normal" and larger sized people to replace models in advertising and in movies. Yes this may put out some  models from working such hard and long work hours, but don't you think this is the ticket to resetting our societies vision of what beauty is? Can't everyday people be beautiful? Yes we can and Yes we are!