Bird Liberator!
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secondlina
Before everyone starts telling me in the comments - Yes, i'm aware that as much as birds are cute, they are nasty. I was afraid of getting near it and afraid that I would have to go to work with Owl scratchies or worse. I was very cautious. I only tried to pull on the plastic wrap because it looked loose, almost as if somebody had sandwich-wrapped the owl's wing. It was trying to get it off by scratching. I never would have tried if it looked stuck. I wanted to help because the owl was in the park I cross everyday to go to work... and well kids start to play there EARLY. If the plastic looked stuck, I would have just continued to work and called animal control. I'm not silly or cruel to animals. Plus I love owls.
I was still afraid this one was going to kill me. Sweet Oz. I was scared. This counts as my courageous and good Samaritan action of the week as a double-combo.
In other news. I have no life. A combination of lack of hours, travels, general geekdom and laziness after a day of work have made is so that my art-related-work is in a horrible bottleneck of badness. I'm pretty much turning into a hermit in the next few weeks to catch up. I'll tell you guys more about that in the next post, along with a bit of an explanation about life as a part-time artist.
For now, I am AMAZED, in a bad way, at Japan again. Apparently, the ideal size for a woman over there is a size 2. Anything beyond is considered fat. WHAAAAAAAAAT! I know that asian women are smaller but, WHAAAAT? This is apparently encouraging anorexia and suicide nowadays among our sisters of the island. I'm outraged. Whenever I feel shameful about my weight (a pitiful size 8 to 10) I just read some kind of tabloid. The pure outrage I feel towards these outrageous standards and unrealistic expectations boosts my confidence.
Ridiculous.
Lemme tell you that a size 10 character is a lot more fun to draw then a size 2. Curves are awesome.
- Isa
EDIT : As mentioned in the comments, you should not encourage people to be incredibly thin or tell them to let it be and remain overweight. Feminism is not an excuse for laziness on unhealthiness. Perfection should be being healthy.
Really thin people don't exercise more then overweight ones. They usually try to do exercise to become thinner, and then discover that muscles actually take a lot of room. So the stop exercising, atrophying the muscles and stop eating to diminish the fat. So neither thin or fat people are necessarily healthy. What should be encourage is health, no matter what your "healthy weight" is. Because some people are naturally smaller and others bigger. And charts can determine that according to origin, diet, exercice routines and height.
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Date: 2010-07-14 03:47 am (UTC)/dies a little every time she thinks about it.
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Date: 2010-07-14 04:12 am (UTC)@_@ Seriously? Wow, I would be in big trouble if I had to live in Japan. (Granted, this would also explain why weight seems to be such a big issue to female anime characters. I remember there being a Sailor Moon episode regarding Usagi desperately trying to loose weight.)
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Date: 2010-07-14 01:21 pm (UTC)I don't know if you read Gajiin Smash, the blog of the professor in Japan, but apparently it's a pretty big issue in the school. And people aren't afraid of telling you they think you're fat.
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Date: 2010-07-14 04:14 am (UTC)A-fuckin-men! I looooooooooove curvaceous women. Both for drawin' and for datin'.
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Date: 2010-07-14 05:28 am (UTC)I feel your pain (pain in this case meaning "terror and desire to help at the same time"). It can get pretty scary when you're dealing with a scared critter who needs help!
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Date: 2010-07-14 05:38 am (UTC)Mais pour le truc des japonais... J'en sais rien.
Oui c'est vrai, il a beaucoup de pression sur les femmes pour qu'elles gardent un corps jeune et mince qui est souvent irréaliste, mais je trouve qu'aujourd'hui les féministes en font sérieusement tout un plat pour rien.
De tout temps les arts et les médias ont encouragés le corps parfait parce qu’ils sont directement liés à l’imaginaire et au visuel. Certaines femmes ont dues souffrir sérieusement plus que nous à plusieurs autres époques. Elles n'étaient peut être pas autant bombardées par la télévision mais il y avaient toujours les arts pour leur rappeler leur culotte de cheval. En plus elles n'avaient pas la contre culture et l'internet pour leur faire connaitre les attirances sexuelles divergentes. Je ne vois pas pourquoi aujourd’hui il faudrait tout à coup baisser nos exigences en matière de beauté pour plaire à mesdames.
Je crois qu'il est tout à fait normal de valoriser la beauté et de demander à nos mannequins d'être belle, parce que c'est leur job après tout.
Et je crois que ce n’est pas à la représentation de la beauté de changer mais bien à notre mode d’éducation. Je trouve que toute cette histoire ressemble beaucoup au débat de la violence dans les arts. Oui une œuvre violente peut donner des idées à quelqu’un, mais seulement si cette personne était déjà à la base violente. Si une jeune fille veux se suicider parce qu’elle voit une fille jolie à la télévision, c’est qu’elle était déjà malade au départ. C’est de la surprotection, de l’infantilisation, de la victimisation et surtout une projection du blâme sur quelqu’un d’autre que le moi. « Ce n’est pas de ma faute si ma fille est malheureuse c’est la télé! » Ce n’Est pas ma faute si je suis grosse c’est que les médias donnent une idée faussée ».
Je déteste les campagnes anti-minceur où on fait la promotion du mode de vie américain. L’embonpoint et l’anorexie sont à mes yeux deux problèmes majeurs et équivalents. J’ai l’impression que plusieurs féministes y cherchent qu’une raison de ne pas s’activer.
Oui une femme peut être belle (et même surpasser plusieurs mannequins) même si elle ne correspond pas aux proportions suggérées mais reste qu’en règle général, la plupart du temps le corps idéalisé est en générale plus plaisant à l’œil. Soyons clair, je ne suis pas pour la maigreur extrême mais je suis pro corps ferme mince et en santé (fit) et je crois qu’il y aura toujours de la place à l’amélioration.
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Date: 2010-07-14 01:34 pm (UTC)Je trouve que les campagnes de minceurs et celles qui disent "rester comme vous êtes même si vous n'êtes pas en santé!" sont tout les deux horribles. D'abord, parce que oui, le poid peut être représentatif de santé, mais pas toujours. Je suis pas très grosse, mais je ne suis pas en forme. Par contre, mon père en "gros" mais il fait de l'exercice 3 fois par semaine.
Il existe des "poids santé" qui peuvent être déterminé selon ton origine, ce que tu bouffe et ta taille. Les médecins les ont et les "vrais" pro de gym aussi (ceux qui sont vraiment entraîné pour). Je dit plutôt qu'on devrais encourager les gens à s'informer, manger mieux, faire de l'exercice, et quand tu sera en santé, tu aura le poid que tu aura, un point c'est tout.
J'ai l'impression que beaucoup de gens font de l'exercise pour maigrir, sauf que, dépenddant du type du corps, tu ne maigris pas nécessairement. des muscles, ça prends de la plate. Alors autant chez les super maigres que j'ai ceux qui sont gras, il n'y a pas d'exercice. Si ton poid santé c'est un 8, tu va faire de l'exercice et tu va être un 8. Pour qu'un 8 passe à un 6 ou un 4, la personne arrête de faire de l'exercice (atrophiant les muscles) et arrête de manger (diminuer les masses de graisse sans augmanter les muscles). Alors dans les deux cas, on a du monde vraiment pas en santé.
Je pense pas vraiment que c'est des feministes qui cherche des raisons de ne pas s'activer, mais plus des gens qui prennent le feministe comme un belle excuse (un peu comme les femmes qui clâment qu'elles couche avec tout ce qui bouge par feministe). Assume tes envies et ta paresse et arrête de l'associer avec un "cause grandiose".
Mon seul problème avec les mannequins, c'est que je trouve que oui, c'est normal qu'elle soit belle, mais j'ai l'impression qu'elle sont de plus en plus traitée comme des cintres. Plutôt que créer des vêtements à la mode pour une femme en forme de taille normal, les designers font pas mal du linge sans courbes. Ça me rends un peu triste.
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Date: 2010-07-14 05:54 am (UTC)RE: JAPAN
Tell me about it. I'm considered "big boned" for being size 6. -_-
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Date: 2010-07-14 01:41 pm (UTC)As mentioned in the above comment by someone else, neither thin or fat is good. Perfection should be being healthy. Really thin people don't exercise more then overweight ones. They usually try to do exercise to become thinner, and then discover that muscles actually take a lot of room. So the stop exercising, atrophying the muscles and stop eating to diminish the fat. So neither thin or fat people are necessarily healthy.
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Date: 2010-07-14 05:58 am (UTC)But, Japan...size 2!? I'm in the 8- 10 size range, too...I was ridiculously thin years ago and I'm much healthier at this size. Plus...curves! :)
It makes me so very sad that women are being driven to hurting themselves over something like this...:(
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Date: 2010-07-14 08:28 am (UTC)Heck, I've never encountered an owl in need, but when I was a kid I found a song bird trapped in the chicken mesh surrounding our garden. I didn't even think about getting scratched or pecked, I did what I could to free the poor thing, and once it was free it took off. I didn't get a single mark from that bird. How I wish I could say the same of Bird E. Bird! ^_-
Still, go you! In a way this makes me feel a bit better for the bird we encountered up in Toronto. We can never save them all, but we should always do so when we are able.
(Forever ago I read about the experiences of an American teacher in Japan, and he did get into a discussion with a Japanese man on women. The Japanese man pointed out that American woman were very fat compared to Japanese women, but then the teacher pointed out that American woman also had much bigger chests than Japanese women. It made the Japanese man stop comparing. ^_^;; All men like women with some shape, even if they don't want to admit it!)
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Date: 2010-07-14 01:57 pm (UTC)Asian and Caucasian have different body types. You can't compare one with another. That's just wrong.
Toronto bird...oh that poor thing. I saw dead baby birds the other day too. During the heat wave. Poor birdies.
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:56 am (UTC)8-10 eh? Me too! =D
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Date: 2010-07-14 01:58 pm (UTC)Japan is just plain weird when it comes to fashion and apperance.
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Date: 2010-07-14 10:17 am (UTC)I sorry to heard you haven't a life. We're like pemdulums: one day we're busy till become exhasued... and other day we spend the full day on the armchair because we have nothing to do. That's just nasty.
I hope you can get some half position in the coming days.
Idela size for women? Then, all those hentai books are terribly wrong, aren't they? That people is contradictory.
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Date: 2010-07-14 02:00 pm (UTC)Pendulum life sounds accurate for me XD Oh, I really should schedule my stuff better. I'll probably advance faster then I think I will. Now that i,m pouring all my energy in it.
...nothing in hentai books is realistic. Why believe anything from a book that brought us phantom penises and fountain sperm. I can't even look at those things. it's really disturbing.
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Date: 2010-07-14 03:29 pm (UTC)I knew that the Japanese had different size standards. But I didn't realize that it was causing a bunch of suicides over there! That is so depressing. :(
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Date: 2010-07-14 04:02 pm (UTC)Japan has a pretty high suicide toll for such a small country. Their society is so strange. I feel bad when anime fans glorify it. It's not perfect. And it's not like in anime, where characters often go against the standards.
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:21 am (UTC);A; I AM APPARENTLY FAT IN JAPAN. *sobs forever*
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