The use of anger
Looking back, and forward, I'm wondering about the place of anger. At least now in my life, I can see how angry I am about these issues, how much emotion and frustration gets tied to them. I don't think anger is an answer in any way, but I do believe that anger brings up issues that might otherwise be glossed over or ignored by more positive minded thought process. I don't think that anger is bad, I think it needsEa to be identified as such, and examined, because in its roots are some gems. But staying angry? I think that might be where things get ugly and stuck.... rather than moving forward with new understanding, having learned. Easier said than done ;)
I hope my next post is on the co-optation of "health" by the beauty ideal. That's what I'm stewing over at the moment....how totally invisible many forms of oppression make themselves these days in order to stay powerful.... through disguise and misdirection they cloak some of their more sinister objectives or implications.
I'm thinking of many "inadvertantly" racist, classist, sexist things- there are also many things that purport to be beneficial to women, or even nuetral, which really further the claims of the beauty ideal as legitamete and thus feed the frenzy of body hatred and obsession.
