It’s not Fat or Thin. It’s Judging.

As we have learned throughout the semester, females are very often considered as sexual object—born to be looked at, appreciated, and criticized. Even though the idea of femininity has been popularized overtime, female’s bodies are still being looked at in a different way compared to male in the society nowadays. In my point of view, females, just like any human being or even animal, have more value and life goal than simply attaining an ideal body shape according to the social standard. The link below is a piece of homegrown music called “Flat Lady” by Michelle Glavan, who has her song inspired by being criticized of having small breast.

Flat Lady - Michelle Glavan
http://youtu.be/40ZSIXDgNC0

Obviously, Michelle is a talented lady because of her guitar playing skill, singing skill, and song writing skill. She is also very open-minded as she bravely admits that fact that she is being “flat.” Then, what is wrong with her? I found the social standard for female bodies really interesting: if she has a larger body size, she is pure fat, unacceptable, and should go on diet immediately; if she has a skinnier body size, she should “go to sell the guitar and use the money to do plastic surgery” as mentioned at the end of the video when Michelle shows the others’ comment in the video. The society should stop judging females in such way as females, being intelligent human beings, also have their own life to care about other than busying about the nonsense judgment.