“Birth Markings" and Bellies After Babies
By Taylor Newman
Posted 01/25/12http://www.parenting.com/blogs/natural-parenting/taylor-newman/birth-markings-and-bellies-after-babies?src=soc&dom=fb
Real women’s bodies aren’t given much air time in our culture (beyond the political battlefield, anyway). In fact, the accepted female beauty standard has strayed so far from what's real that even ‘flawless’ fashion models are losing work to computer-generated images of bodies more uniform, and less unique, than theirs; what consumer culture projects into our collective consciousness as female perfection is literally a flat, lifeless depiction of a human. But the fact remains that it's not, and never will be, human... let alone have the capacity to create one.
