Body Image

Leave it to me to blog about something that has zero to do with the actual meat of the readings but that’s just how it’s gonna be tonight. In Agrippa’s praise of women, I couldn’t help but notice how much the definition of beauty has changed in the last five hundred years.

I’ve never been one for women’s rights or whatever but I do have issues with society’s narrow view of attractiveness. The media has taught us for years that thinner is better. There has been a recent shift in this mindset and more and more body shapes are becoming accepted as pretty, but Victoria’s Secret is still the benchmark for beauty. 

Agrippa used awesome phrases like “wonderful softness”, “large and prominent chest”, “roundness of breasts and belly”, “full hips and thighs”, and “plump calves”. I’m not about to say that bigger is better because then I’d be just as bad as the rest of society but there is something about refreshing about complementing women as they are naturally, and not how they make themselves.

P.s. I commented on Collin's post