Flat: Living Small in Large America

When they say you need a C cup for the role, and you’re an A: “Excuse me, perhaps we can try this again?”

(via Eat a Sandwich! — and Other Commands)

Gloria Steinem

(via An Ordinary Body in Miami)

Keep your Cristal and your pistol I'd rather have a pretty piece is crystal. Don't need your silicone, I prefer my own, What god gave me is just fine.

The mainstream hype will say that bigger is right. But these essays by a flat-chested gal will tell you otherwise. ;-)

I remember the many times I was laughed at for having “no boobs.” Honestly, I didn’t even know how to react to that. I’d laugh with my bullies in agreement, as if I did deserve it. As if it were my fault that I didn’t grow a bigger bust -- as if that were something to be ashamed of at all! Society makes you believe that you’re lesser of a woman if you have a small bust, and for years, I believed it.

I was so close to saving money for breast implants in order to fix my “abnormality” and seem “more appealing.” What?! I spent too much money on the Wonder Bra, push-up bras, and silicone pads. I was about to make the mistake of my life. Thankfully, I grew up...mentally. And I read a lot of blogs of support, like this one, that played a key in helping me to build confidence.

So for those who think that getting a “boob job” is the answer, I wrote this. You’re only pleasing everyone else (especially men), not yourself, when you enlarge your breasts to “lift your confidence.” You don’t need a large cleavage as much as you think you do. I got so over it, I couldn’t care less. I accepted myself as I am and, in fact, LOVE my body.

This is a short eBook about the path I took to boost my self-esteem, in spite of society’s messed-up beauty standards, and how you, too, can learn to love your boobies. Check it out, it will at least lift you up. :)

(Ask me for other formats!)

Absolutely LOVED this article by Beauty Redefined, calling Victoria’s Secret on their “empowering” bullshit. We need campaigns like VS to stop spreading such unhealthy message to our younger generation. Be in control of your body and soul! Here’s an excerpt:

This brand begs us to believe, and totally relies on us believing, that our power comes from enhancing, accessorizing, fixing, and flaunting our bodies. It relies on us believing beautiful and “sexy” look ONE very specific way — very thin, tall, young, and wrinkle- and cellulite-free — and that we must achieve those ideals by any means necessary in order to be “sexy, bold, and powerful.” If we believe we are empowered (and made desirable, happy, and healthy) by perfecting the looks of our bodies above all else, we are giving our power to an industry that profits immensely at the expense of our self-worth. What you’ll see from VS is not empowerment, but about asking girls and women to give away their power by doing one of two things in order to feel a fake and fleeting form of “power:” 1) fixing it, or 2) flaunting it. Both leave us at the harmful and stifling state of self-objectification* that hinders female progress,  health, and happiness in every possible way.