Robin Marantz Henig and Jess Zimmerman (of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty Fame) wrote a piece about bodies, fat and the mother-daughter relationship.
It pushed about every button I have. I’ve been in an internal debate with myself ever since I read it last week: as the mother, as the daughter, as the writer, as the health conscious, as the overweight one, as the girl advocate, as the typically aesthetic one, and as the spiritual being in a physical body.
I’ll encourage you to have your own emotional reaction when you read The Fat Fight on Oprah.com.
I invite you to come back to The Girl Revolution and tell me what you think. I’d love to hear what other readers, mothers and daughters think about the fat issue.
There appear to be a great many still-existing Brick Walls in front of girls and women. Take this article Guys Still Hog Role of Intellectual Heavy Weight, which examines my professional frustrations.
My own Brick Wall is generally in the form of The Family Budget. Sometimes I, unfairly, imagine my husband as the guard dog protecting the wall.
When we come on brick walls we need to ask ourselves some questions and teach our daughters to do that same:
