Realist

Recently there has been a lot of hype around the blogger  Zoella  after an article by  Charlotte Hamilton  was released on Tuesday. To summarise, very briefly, Chloe suggests that Zoella is not a good role model for young teenage girls due to her providing tutorial videos for teenage girls on how to do make up, hauls on what products to buy and so on, thus Chloe evidently felt that Zoella saying "girls should not fret about their appearance" is contradictory. I'd like to make it clear that I'm not on either side of this argument, it just raises a rather interesting debate I think. A lot of things I post on my blog particularly are very "serious" I suppose, truthfully I would love to publish more beauty related things but I'm conscious that it may come across as contradictory since a lot of posts deal with feminism, body issues and serious topics like this. I suppose more broadly this raises issues of feminism and beauty. Are you expected to...

Undoubtedly the female body is something which is everywhere and an issue of controversy for a lot of reasons. Though I think a lot of people don't consider the "reasons" for the controversy or criticism. Needless to say unfortunately most women and young girls are unhappy with their body, which to me is worrying and also very upsetting. I'm not suggesting that there is an ideal body for a woman at all. What I am hoping to shed some light on however, is that no matter what size or shape you are, all female body types are experiencing criticism and scrutiny. Most significantly, women are the contributing massively to this - thus we can change it somehow. Smaller Women. A while ago I read a post on  Leanne Woodfull 's blog about how skinny girls are getting heavily criticised, at the time I recall being confused and dismissing it, but it's an extremely valid argument. Unquestionably as a result of the fashion industry, largely, smaller/skinner body sizes ...