Bird Liberator!

[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.

Comments

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I though about that, but why would the owl let that happen?

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

...that's what I thought too. I was like "Cute shirt! OK I might fit the M size..."

NOPE.

"L then.."

NOPE.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

(was that Gajiin Smash?)

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.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Woo *high-fives*

Japan is just plain weird when it comes to fashion and apperance.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really didn't know how to do this *laughs* But I wanted to try.

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.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

And you're so tiny too! Jaysus! Can you imagine if you had muscles? you'd be XXL.

...Oh wait, what am I talking about. It's asia. Strong women? What's that? Pshaw. *sarcasm mode*

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Exactly. With anime, you have to take it with a grain of salt as they say. I rather hear it from a more reliable source for learning about culture, although I do know that Japanese schools are a lot stricter than North American schools, so it wouldn't surprise me.

People put WAY too much emphasis that thin is healthy, when it's not. Like you said, you need to have a healthy body, being one of the two extremes isn't healthy. (Although, it's funny what each culture considers to be beautiful. I remember once watching a program about a small country, in Africa I think, where over weight women were considered the ideal women and you can imagine they have a lot of health issues there too.)

[brendala.livejournal.com]

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.

I remember that entry. I still can't believe Japanese doctors blame every health issue on "fat" if the patient is over a size 3! I sure hope I never get sick in Japan! O_o

[brendala.livejournal.com]

It's awesome that you liberated the Owl even though you were freaked out by it. I also grew up being told that wild birds are little disease factories; so I'd be wary of touching one, too.


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. :(

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

(Apparently so, since I just dug out the link, but I read it so long ago that back when I read it it was not called that at all.)

It's not different body types really, it's diet. They have limited land space for farming over in Japan, so they don't have access to many foods like we do. Milk, for instance, is not commonplace at all since there's just not enough space to raise milk cows. Heck, cows in general are a rarity that you'll pay an arm and a leg to be able to eat a steak from. In any case, if you've ever seen second or even third generation Asians raised in North America, they look very different from the people they came from. Sometimes smallness is inherited (I inherited my petite proportions from a great-grandfather, while the rest of my siblings did not and have more normal proportions), but it's amazing how even just growing up eating different foods will affect a person's body.

Case in point, we had a Filipino family in our ward way back when (the parents have since moved back to help the family they left behind). The mother and father both grew up over there. The mother was especially small due to malnourishment as a child. It wasn't intentional, they didn't have access to a lot thus her body didn't grow beyond what it could handle on a limited diet. The husband wasn't any taller than his wife. But when they came to the U.S. to raise their children, all of the children grew up big and healthy, more on par with a 'normal' American citizen.

Heck, my Korean-born but American-raised coworker actually carries a lot more weight around than I do, this despite her Asian heritage. Access to more and better food does that to a person. ^_-;

You can compare different cultures to each other, but it's really important to know the factors behind each. No matter where you go, access to more varieties of food is always going to result in a more healthy build. Heck, if I was raised on a typical Japanese diet of rice and soup, you better believe I'd be a lot thinner than I am having been raised on things like wheat, milk, and meat.

Long ramble aside, I'd not heard about Japanese girls/women being pressured into being small sizes. Last I heard, the Japanese in general were coming to realize their small stature was due to lack of certain food types in their diet and were working to change that. For all I know, that might have been tossed out the window when Japan's economy started flailing. Plus, old habits die hard. I'd not blame men so much as society as a whole for not realizing change is always going to happen.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

O_O

And we are back to the Venus of Willendorf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Strange. For a bacterial-obsessed culture, they sure like to diminish potential problems to nothing.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

There's so many factors entering the life of a person to affect their weight, like diet, as you say, that their should not be a weight everyone has to conform to, especially not one as insane as that. People should focus on having healthy, stong bodies rather then "perfect ones". I would be happy to be a size 10 if it ment I could run up stairs and look and feel healthy. Excercise and fruit, FTW.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Gah. GAH! I wasn't even thinking about the diseases! NOW I AM! I was worried about the claws and the fact that the owl was going batshit crazy. *laughs*

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.

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

how do they handle anorexia... O_o

[miss-maggiemay.livejournal.com]

On demande habituellement aux mannequins d'être maigre justement pour qu'elles s'effacent derrière le vêtement. C'est la création qui est la vedette et non le support. On les veux très grande et très maigre pour que le vêtement coule sur elles. Les mannequins vedette c'est une erreur des années 90. Ça n'a jamais été le but.

Je te confirme pour les féministe http://www.lameute.fr/index/
Tu as surement aperçus les millions de collant qui traine sur les panneaux de publicité à Montréal. SALE PUB SEXISTE!!! Pour elles c'est sexiste de mettre de jolie femme sexy sur des pub de shampoing. Moi j'appelle ça normal de présenter du beau pour vendre et ce n'est pas comme si les hommes sont épargnés (les hommes dans les pub ne sont habituellement pas des laiderons (sauf pour les pub drôle mais ça c'est la même chose avec les femmes).

Pour les féministes pro-sexe, elles ont de bon points. Quelques unes exagèrent peut être mais ça c'est la vie. Sur le sujet je te conseil Porno Manifesto de l'ex porn star Ovidie. C'est un livre qui a vraiment changé ma vision des choses.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Dans le fond, c'est l'aspect "vedette" qui a créé cet espèce d'engouement pour avoir un corps de top model. J'aurais préféré un culte au pin-ups tiens. Elles avait des formes géniales.

Je comprends pas pourquoi le "beau" est sexiste. Personnellement, quand je créer des personnages, je veux des personnages attirants et c'est la même chose pour les publicités. Une belle femmes, c'est pas nécessairement sexiste. J'ai jamais vraiment trouvé la publicité sexiste. Le beau semble être plutôt normal. De plus, je me suis toujorus dit que les agences de pub doivent faire attention à ne pas être sexiste quand même.

Côté média, quelque chose de plus sexiste serait peut-être l'âge maximal des femmes à Hollywood. Difficile pour une actrice (à moins qu'elle soit un super star) de trouver du travail passé l'âge de 27, même si elle est encore super jolie. C'est pas vraiment la beauté le problème, mais plutôt la manière dont ont traite ces jolies femmes?

La beauté ça me semble plutôt normal dans les médias. Après tout, c'est une dramatisation du monde réel et c'est censé être attirant.

Je suis pro-sexe, j'ai pas de problème avec ça. Mais j'aime pas les gens qui utilise le feministe comme une excuse. En gros, qui balance le feminisme comme une carte à tout va même si elle ne vivent aucun autre aspect de leurs vie comme des feministes. Plutôt que dire "Je baise parce que c'est féministe!" et d'obéir au mec aveuglément, il faudrait dire "Je suis une femme emanticipée et j'explore ma sexualité car j'ai le droit" et vivre le reste de sa vie avec cette même mentalité. Le feministe est un style de vie, pas une excuse. Et je commence à trouver que les gens utilise l'outrage feministe comme une excuse occationnelle plutôt que d'adhérer au style de pensée. C'est pas mal ça qui me dérange. T'est pas obligé d'être feministe à fond pour aimer baiser non plus. Alors pourquoi l'utiliser pour le justifier même si la personne ne le pense pas vraiment?

Merci pour le titre du livre. Je vais checker ça!

[savageknight.livejournal.com]

"Give me a curve, not a straight narrow line" - The Go-Go's

:)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Hahahahah. You betcha.

[engelen.livejournal.com]

I'd be considered gross and huge over there... then again, my boobs are pretty, so I'd probably still get me some mens ;D

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

A, japanese men and boobs. THERE'S a story!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Eh .... um .... maybe the owl's into bondage? Or maybe it just didn't give a hoot.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

........*snicker*

Those darn S&M owls and their shenanigans.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Now we know why they're up all night ...

[jason-register.livejournal.com]

Kind of you to help the owl. That is good Karma for you.