yay for 1020 members in ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
curvygirls!!! / loving your self and others' selves.
curvygirls!!! / loving your self and others' selves.
We broke a thousand! My comm ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
curvygirls now has 1020 members! *crazy weird dancing*
Seriously, when I think about the impact this community is having, I'm blown away. Creating it, I thought it would end up being just a group of people like myself who like curvy women. Instead it has become a movement; girls come in with no self esteem and learn their own beauty through seeing beauty in others, slender-curvy to zaftig-curvy. People post so often about how their lives have been changed that it's become commonplace to me, and I don't realize just how astonishing that is until I step back and think about it. All I can credit to myself is having the passion to form the community and the graks to keep it focused -- the reason the community is such a huge force for positivity is because people are coming in with the desire to grow and learn love. All they want is relief from self-hate, and what they find is acceptance, care, admiration, friendship. Reading the comments in the community is so encouraging, because they are so consistently wonderful. It's wonderful because the women are wonderful. And it makes me want to cry with joy because all it takes is giving someone the chance to be supportive and caring, and they will take that chance! At core we all want to love each other, we're just too scared of rejection to do it, and if we find an environment where it's the culture to care and show admiration, we will.
It takes spending time with someone who's of 'normal' cosmo-culture to realize thatcurvygirls is a revolution, a quiet but continuously-building force of change. And we all go out and influence others, in tiny or major ways. And yeah, the comm is about body-love, but it goes so much deeper than that. It's about learning to love ourselves for being OURSELVES, rather than rating ourselves and everyone else according to how we match some tyrannical unhealthy standard set by greedy fucks who want to beat us down and charge us for it. The body is just a symbol of the self, it is our SELVES and each other's selves that we are learning to love.
Viva La Curvylution!!!
curvygirls now has 1020 members! *crazy weird dancing*Seriously, when I think about the impact this community is having, I'm blown away. Creating it, I thought it would end up being just a group of people like myself who like curvy women. Instead it has become a movement; girls come in with no self esteem and learn their own beauty through seeing beauty in others, slender-curvy to zaftig-curvy. People post so often about how their lives have been changed that it's become commonplace to me, and I don't realize just how astonishing that is until I step back and think about it. All I can credit to myself is having the passion to form the community and the graks to keep it focused -- the reason the community is such a huge force for positivity is because people are coming in with the desire to grow and learn love. All they want is relief from self-hate, and what they find is acceptance, care, admiration, friendship. Reading the comments in the community is so encouraging, because they are so consistently wonderful. It's wonderful because the women are wonderful. And it makes me want to cry with joy because all it takes is giving someone the chance to be supportive and caring, and they will take that chance! At core we all want to love each other, we're just too scared of rejection to do it, and if we find an environment where it's the culture to care and show admiration, we will.
It takes spending time with someone who's of 'normal' cosmo-culture to realize that
curvygirls is a revolution, a quiet but continuously-building force of change. And we all go out and influence others, in tiny or major ways. And yeah, the comm is about body-love, but it goes so much deeper than that. It's about learning to love ourselves for being OURSELVES, rather than rating ourselves and everyone else according to how we match some tyrannical unhealthy standard set by greedy fucks who want to beat us down and charge us for it. The body is just a symbol of the self, it is our SELVES and each other's selves that we are learning to love.
love you B!
You know, that's a way of looking at "thin culture" I hadn't before... and I've given it loads of thought! I know a lot of it has to do with greed and money for selling an image and selling "sex", and I've known that fitting into a certain image can make insecure people feel like they have something special, something "ideal", but I never really thought of it as... wanting everyone to be the same way so there is more of the same, for them. So that less people get happiness and body love. Wow. But yeah, I think that's another effect of the similar thing... of feeling insecure and so not wanting others to challenge your "idea" that you are on some path of happiness by being thin...
wow.
Anyway, thank you. For posting this. For making that community, for everything.
I have some questions about it and curvy positive image in general, actually. Do you mind if I email you on it?
DOWN WITH THE FUCKING TYRANNY!!!!!!!
Bel, you have created something wonderful.
I AGREE! SO PASSIONATELY!!!!!!
I'm serious about my part in the Curvylution and will do the job and display my curvy body with pride.
amen sistah, you rock! Me too, forever and ever and ever!!!
Just wanted to add my applause to the crowd here. ;)