>>Just my reaction to all this negative body image crud that gets shoved down our throats all the time.<<
Go you! That nonsense needs to be stabbed to death with pencils.
>> And the belief that the first person you need to learn to love and care about is you. After all, you have to live with you. And it's hard to form healthy relationships of any favor when you hate yourself.<<
Absolutely. A majority of the wrecked relationships I write about include that as part of the problem. This is especially true for cases where parents are causing problems for their children. If you look at Shiv's parents, Cassandra's parents, Lawrence's parents, Mallory's parents, Faramundo's rejection of his daughter's superpowers, etc. there is some fucked-up shit going on there -- and the base of it is they aren't very nice people who aren't okay with themselves in the first place.
>>All Bodies All Beautiful is Jean-Claude's brain-child.<<
I like him a lot, and would enjoy seeing more. Terramagne really needs that company, and especially, that meme.
>> I'm certain there is a story about why he feels so strongly about this but he's so far been keeping pretty quiet about his background.<<
Then it's probably a sad one. :( Many body image stories are.
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Re: Thank you!
Date: 2016-02-01 09:35 pm (UTC)Go you! That nonsense needs to be stabbed to death with pencils.
>> And the belief that the first person you need to learn to love and care about is you. After all, you have to live with you. And it's hard to form healthy relationships of any favor when you hate yourself.<<
Absolutely. A majority of the wrecked relationships I write about include that as part of the problem. This is especially true for cases where parents are causing problems for their children. If you look at Shiv's parents, Cassandra's parents, Lawrence's parents, Mallory's parents, Faramundo's rejection of his daughter's superpowers, etc. there is some fucked-up shit going on there -- and the base of it is they aren't very nice people who aren't okay with themselves in the first place.
>>All Bodies All Beautiful is Jean-Claude's brain-child.<<
I like him a lot, and would enjoy seeing more. Terramagne really needs that company, and especially, that meme.
>> I'm certain there is a story about why he feels so strongly about this but he's so far been keeping pretty quiet about his background.<<
Then it's probably a sad one. :( Many body image stories are.