Women's words
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This women in one of my text books brings up a great point. She argues with a saleswoman about sizes. Sizes are dictated by those in power, forcing women to either conform to those sizes or be 'ugly.'
young and thin is the "weapon of use against women in the West like limiting access is the weapon used against women in the East."
This was a smart woman!
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I can see how the "young and thin" thing is a sort of oppression, but to liken it to eastern oppressions is difficult for me. Here in america we oppress ourselves. We are shown a model and told that it is good to look like her, and so we choose to strive after that goal. Perhaps it is easier to live with oppressive societal law, than it is to live with the pressures we put on ourselves. I don't know.
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