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发表于2024-11-08
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Like a great many women, I am a product of a culture that says thin is<br >better, blond is beautiful and buxom is best.<br > From as early as I can remember, my mother, her friends, my grand-<br >mother, governesses, my sister--all the women who surrounded me-~<br >talked anxiously about the pros and cons of their physiques. Hefty<br >thighs, small breasts, a biggish bottom--there was always some per-<br >ceived imperfection to focus anxieties on. None of them seemed happy<br >the way they were, which bewildered me because the way they were<br >seemed fine to my young eyes.<br > In pursuit of the "feminine ideal"-~exemplified by voluptuous film<br >stars and skinny fashion models--women, it seemed, were even pre-<br >pared to do violence to themselves. My mother, for example, who was a<br >rather slender, beautiful woman, was terrified of getting fat. She once<br >said that if she ever gained weight she d have the excess flesh cut off! I<br >remember a friend of hers talking about being injected with the urine of<br >pregnant cows, which was reputed to make fat dissolve.<br > Maybe I simply wasn t privy to their more intimate conversations, but<br >I don t remember the men in my life being as concerned about how they<br >looked. Not with the same angst at any rate. If anything, they seemed<br >more interested in performance: making the team, doing the job, being<br >brave. The message that came across was clear: men were judged by<br >their accomplishments, women by their looks.<br > Like many young girls, I internalized this message and, in an effort to<br >conform to the sought-after female image, I abused my health, starved<br >my body, and ingested heaven-knows-what chemical drugs. I under-<br >stood very little about how my body functioned, and what it needed to<br > be healthy and strong. I depended on doctors to cure me, but never re-<br > lied on myself to stay well.<br > It wasn t until I was thirty, and pregnant for the first time, that I began<br > to change the way I treated myself. As the baby grew inside me, I began<br > to realize my body needed to be listened to and strengthened, not ig-<br > nored and weakened. I discovered that with common sense, a bit of<br >
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Jane Fonda's Workout Book 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024