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"body love" by Mary Lambert (2013)

Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral

Offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say,

"I only know how to exist when I am wanted."

Girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know

We're used up and we're sad and drunk and

Perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and tell us that we did good

Well, you did good.

(I know I am because I said, "I am."

My body is home)

Try this

Take your hands over your bumpy love body naked

And remember the first time you touched someone

With the sole purpose of learning all of them

Touched them because the light was pretty on them

And the dust in the sunlight danced the way your heart did

Touch yourself with a purpose

Your body is the most beautiful royal

Fathers and uncles are not claiming your knife anymore

Are not your razor, no

Put the sharpness back

I Know girls who are trying to fit into the social norm

Like squeezing into last year's prom dress

I know girls who are low rise, mac eye shadow, and binge drinking

I know girls that wonder if they're disaster and sexy enough to fit in

I know girls who are fleeing bombs from the mosques of their skin

Playing Russian roulette with death; it's never easy to accept that our bodies are fallible and flawed

But when do we draw the line?

When the knife hits the skin?

Isn't it the same thing as purging

Because we're so obsessed with death

Some women just have more guts than others

The funny thing is women like us don't shoot

We swallow pills, still wanting to be beautiful at the morgue

Still proceeding to put on make-up

Still hoping that the mortician finds us fuckable and attractive

We might as well be buried with our shoes and handbags and scarves, girls

We flirt with death every time we etch a new tally mark into our skin

I know how to split my wrists to reveal a battlefield too

But the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies

Spin-Off Movements:

No Photoshop/ #lessismore

"Big girl (you are beautiful)" MIKA (2007)

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Oh, you are beautiful

Get yourself to the butterfly lounge

Find yourself a big lady

Big boy, come on around

And there we're gonna do baby

No need to fantasize

Since the words are my praises

A watering hole with the girls around

And curves in all the right places

Big girl, you are beautiful

Big girl, you are beautiful

Big girl, you are beautiful

Big girl, you are beautiful

Big girl, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Walks in to the room

Feels like a big balloon

I said, "Hey girls, you are beautiful"

Diet Coke and a pizza please

Diet Coke, I'm on my knees

Screaming, "Big girl, you are beautiful"

You take your girl

And multiply her by four

Now a whole lot of woman

Needs a whole lot more

Get yourself to the butterfly lounge

Find yourself a big lady

Big boy, come on around

And there we're gonna do baby

No need to fantasize

Since the words are my praises

A watering hole with the girls around

And curves in all the right places

"body love" By Mary Lambert (2013)

Walks in to the room

Feels like a big balloon

Big girl you are beautiful

Diet Coke and a pizza please

Diet Coke, I'm on my knees

Screaming, "Big girl, you are beautiful"

You take your skinny girl

I feel like I'm gonna die

'Cause a real woman

Needs a real man, here's why

You take your girl

And multiply her by four

Now a whole lot of woman

Needs a whole lot more

Get yourself to the butterfly lounge

Find yourself a big lady

Big boy, come on around

And there we're gonna do baby

No need to fantasize

Since the words are my praises

A watering hole with the girls around

And curves in all the right places

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Get yourself to the butterfly lounge

Find yourself a big lady

Big boy, come on around

And there we're gonna do baby

No need to fantasize

Since the words are my praises

A watering hole with the girls around

And curves in all the right places

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Big girls, you are beautiful

Oh, you are beautiful

Get yourself to the butterfly lounge

Find yourself a big lady

Big boy, come on around

And there we're gonna do baby

No need to fantasize

Since the words are my praises

A watering hole with the girls around

And curves in all the right places

Lay your hands flat and feel the surface of scarred skin

I once touched a tree with charred limbs

The stump was still breathing

But the tops were just ashy remains

I wonder what it's like to come back from that because

Because sometimes I feel forest fires erupting from my wrists

And the smoke signals sent out are the most beautiful things I've ever seen

Love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet

And brother arm wrapping shoulders, and remember

This is important

You are worth more than who you fuck

You are worth more than a waistline

You are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts.

You are worth more than any naked body could proclaim in the shadows,

More than a man's whim or your father's mistake

You are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4

You are no less valuable as a 32a than a 36c

Your sexiness is defined by concentric circles within your wood

It is wisdom

You are a goddamn tree stump with leaves sprouting out

Reborn

"Beautiful" Christina Aguilera (2002)

SPin-off movements:

Dove campaign for real beauty

Don't look at me

Everyday is so wonderful

Then suddenly

It's hard to breathe

Now and then I get insecure

From all the pain

I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful

No matter what they say

Words can't bring me down

I am beautiful

In every single way

Yes words can't bring me down

Oh no

So don't you bring me down today

To all your friends you're delirious

So consumed

In all your doom, ooh

Trying hard to fill the emptiness

The pieces gone

Left the puzzle undone

Ain't that the way it is

You're beautiful

No matter what they say

Words can't bring you down

Oh no

You're beautiful

In every single way

Yes words can't bring you down

Oh no

So don't you bring me down today

No matter what we do (no matter what we do)

No matter what we say (no matter what we say)

We're the song inside the tune (yeah, oh yeah)

Full of beautiful mistakes

And everywhere we go (and everywhere we go)

The sun will always shine (the sun will always, always, shine)

And tomorrow we might awake

On the other side

We're beautiful

No matter what they say

Yes words won't bring us down

Oh no

We are beautiful

In every single way

Yes words can't bring us down

Oh no

So don't you bring me down today

Oh, oh

Don't you bring me down today

Don't you bring me down, ooh

Today

"Video" INDIA.ARIE (2000)

The body positivity movement

spin-off movements:

#fatkini Movement

Sometimes I shave my legs and sometimes I don’t

Sometimes I comb my hair and sometimes I won’t

Depend of how the wind blows I might even paint my toes

It really just depends on whatever feels good in my soul

[Chorus]

I’m not the average girl from your video

And I ain’t built like a supermodel

But I learned to love myself unconditionally,

Because I am a queen

I not the average girl from your video

My worth is not determined by the price of my clothes

No matter what I’m wearing I will always be

India.Arie

When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me

Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be

And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me

My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see

Am I less of a lady if I don’t where panty hose

My momma said a lady ain’t what she wears but what she knows…

But I’ve drawn the conclusion, it’s all an illusion

Confusion’s the name of the game

A misconception, a vast deception,

Something got to change

Now don’t be offended this is all my opinion

Ain’t nothing that I’m saying law

This is a true confession

Of a life learned lesson

I was sent here to share with y'all

So get in when you fit in

Go on and shine

Clear your mind

Now’s the time

Put your salt on the shelf

Go on and love yourself

‘Cause everything’s gonna be alright

Keep your fancy drink, and your expensive minks

I don’t need that to have a good time

Keep your expensive cars and your caviar

All’s I need is my guitar

Keep your crystal and your pistol

I’d rather have a pretty piece of crystal

Don’t need you silicone, I prefer my own

What god gave me is just fine…

  • social movement
  • goals:
  • embrace all bodies
  • advocate for all body shapes and sizes to be represented in media
  • raise confidence in all people, specifically teens and young women

"unpretty" TLC (1998)

I wish could tie you up in my shoes

Make you feel unpretty too

I was told I was beautiful

But what does that mean to you

Look into the mirror who's inside there

The one with the long hair

Same old me again today (yeah)

My outsides look cool

My insides are blue

Everytime I think I'm through

It's because of you

I've tried different ways

But it's all the same

At the end of the day

I have myself to blame

I'm just trippin'

[Chorus:]

You can buy your hair if it won't grow

You can fix your nose if he says so

You can buy all the make up

That M.A.C. can make

But if you can't look inside you

Find out who am I too

Be in the position to make me feel

So damn unpretty

I'll make you feel unpretty too

Never insecure until I met you

Now I'm bein' stupid

I used to be so cute to me

Just a little bit skinny

Why do I look to all these things

To keep you happy

Maybe get rid of you

And then I'll get back to me (hey)

My outsides look cool

My insides are blue

Everytime I think I'm through

It's because of you

I've tried different ways

But it's all the same

At the end of the day

I have myself to blame

I'm just trippin'

[Chorus]

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Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh (oh)

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh (oh)

[Chorus]

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Modern Barbie

Criticism

The Body Positive

  • Encourages fat/unhealthy lifestyle
  • Encourages 'skinny-shaming'

This is Mainstream Media

  • The Body Positive organization was founded in 1996, by Connie Sobczak and Elizabeth Scott
  • Beliefs:
  • "Create a lively, healing community that offers freedom from suffocating societal messages that keep people in a perpetual struggle with their bodies"
  • Help inspire people, specifically women and teens, to value their health and unique bodies regardless of shape or size
  • Better one's self through self-love and appreciation by building self-image and confidence
  • Tall, petite, curvy, original
  • Ashley Graham plus-size Barbie

The Body Positivity Movement

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