Question for the day
Jul. 21st, 2002 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenI was reading an essay wherein the author (female) basically said that for all that she's pro "Love yourself as yourself" she couldn't say with 100% certainty that she wouldn't agree to give up her ability to write if it meant she would be a size 8 for the rest of her life.
This got me thinking.
On the one hand I don't think I'd give up my writing ability for anything - or at least anything that frivolous - but on the other I did feel a bit of identification with the desire to magically be a size smaller for all that I don't hate the way I look now.
I thought about it a bit b/c the reaction surprised me, and what I realized was that for me it's twofold:
1) My breasts, which IMO are too big and need to get smaller or else I know I'll have back problems.
2) The difficulty of finding clothes that fit and look attractive (including bras, for all that my boob size is supposedly the ideal, if porn mags are to be believed) (not that I'm bitter).
So for me it wasn't so much that I've got problems with my size, as it is that I'd like to not have problems with my posture and I'd like to have a better selection of attractive clothing to wear. All things being equal then (and putting the sacrifice aspect out of the wish) if I had to wish for something in this area I would be pretty content with perhaps size C boobs and better clothing options. I don't, per se, have a need to be thinner, I just have a desire to stand up straight and look good.
That being said - what do y'all think? Would you wish for a thinner size, or would you wish for something which would take care of whatever problems being a larger size has for you (if any)? Same thing for those of you at the end of the scale - would you wish for bigger boobs and more curves, or would you wish for a change to things that made things difficult for petite bodies?
This got me thinking.
On the one hand I don't think I'd give up my writing ability for anything - or at least anything that frivolous - but on the other I did feel a bit of identification with the desire to magically be a size smaller for all that I don't hate the way I look now.
I thought about it a bit b/c the reaction surprised me, and what I realized was that for me it's twofold:
1) My breasts, which IMO are too big and need to get smaller or else I know I'll have back problems.
2) The difficulty of finding clothes that fit and look attractive (including bras, for all that my boob size is supposedly the ideal, if porn mags are to be believed) (not that I'm bitter).
So for me it wasn't so much that I've got problems with my size, as it is that I'd like to not have problems with my posture and I'd like to have a better selection of attractive clothing to wear. All things being equal then (and putting the sacrifice aspect out of the wish) if I had to wish for something in this area I would be pretty content with perhaps size C boobs and better clothing options. I don't, per se, have a need to be thinner, I just have a desire to stand up straight and look good.
That being said - what do y'all think? Would you wish for a thinner size, or would you wish for something which would take care of whatever problems being a larger size has for you (if any)? Same thing for those of you at the end of the scale - would you wish for bigger boobs and more curves, or would you wish for a change to things that made things difficult for petite bodies?
