Love yourself beautiful: Raising the self-esteem of athletic women
Apr 21, 2015
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Women are assaulted every day with the definition of what our culture deems “beautiful”. Thick or thin, curvy or flat, pale or tanned, tall or short, dressed this way or that, it seems the requirements for being beautiful morph alongside seasonal fashion.
Women participating in competitive sport have yet another obligation: to be a tough competitor while also maintaining this social expectation of feminine beauty.
“How are athletic women supposed to love and appreciate themselves while adhering to these “beauty” requirements?”
The answer: by redefining beauty altogether.
The skinny on skinny.
First off, by “skinny” I don’t mean “slender”, I mean the BMIs shown off by the likes of ultra-slim runway models, of whom many are left to wonder, “Are you sure you don’t want fries with that?” I want to make it clear that this article is NOT skinny bashing. I’m not...
