Question on Millionaire today: "A unibrow is a fashion faux pas remedied by what type of grooming?" Dude, the levels of wrongness. "Faux pas"? Like Frida Kahlo wasn't a total hottie.

After a comment thread with ranaeressea last night, I was thinking I could use an androgynous person icon; and I've been wanting a "real women have curves" icon for some time (I lack any picture to use for it); this makes me think I need a Frida Kahlo icon (complete with unibrow and mustache) for a "nontraditionally beautiful" icon. [Though I would still like a "real women have curves" icon. And no I don't endorse the "zomg, you are so skinny you must be anorexic" type of thing; I don't mean to elide the women who are naturally skinny; being a female who has passed through puberty you have some curves, though, so you are not being negated by the still-theoretical icon.]

I was thinking about writing a disclaimer about choosing/owning your own aesthetics and I remembered that last night kurukami posted a poll about preference for smooth-chested vs. hairy-chested (for those attracted to males) and in this context it got me thinking about how when we're talking about men the hairiness issue gets to be an aesthetic choice, but with women it becomes this huge deal -- and interestingly, women are in many ways less restricted in terms of appearance choices (women wear pants all the times, but how many guys get away with wearing skirts?) but whereas guys get to make choices about shaving all the time (facial hair especially) it's a given that women will shave everything except their heads (and that one's okay either way) and if you don't shave and don't cover that up then it's this huge deal.

So Prof. Millington told us in class today that there’s an English Dept. “picnic” this Monday, at the Field House, from 5-7. Dork that i am i really wanna go. And so i shall. And Joan’s going to try to come. I’m going to drag her.

At lunch today, some people were talking about a friend who is anorexic. (Recurrent themes are weird things, huh?) It makes me so sad that even students at a place like Smith have eating disorders. I know anorexia is often more about control than it is about body image, but it still makes me so sad that Smithies of all people would develop this obsession with fitting into society’s image of the perfect body.

This site is so great. I own the "Start a Revolution --- Stop Hating Your Body" t-shirt. For my birthday this year i am getting this "If the definition of beautiful gets any thinner no one will fit" t-shirt.

Oh, and i would like to state that my mother is one of the bestest people ever. Thank you.

For anyone who didn’t read her comment, one of the reasons she cited for why i won’t really have an emotional breakdown is the fact that i “seem to be developing” a “community of good souls.”

jessikins4774 added me to her friends list. (Incidentally, it’s weird to read the LJs of Smithies because so many of them are so wonderful and i would love to get to know them better and of course they all must live within 10 minutes of me--during the school year that is--but because it’s the Internet i have this mental block that they exist in some faraway never-shall-we-meet realm. But i digress.) And on her friends page i’m grey writing on black background, which i like so much better than yellow or green on pink, which is what i am on the friends pages of those who color their friends pages (this should make sense to most people who are on livejournal; if you’re confused lemme know and i’ll explain). And the random Amherst boy who had added me to his friends list a while back just because i listed my location as Massachusetts took me off. My world is a saner place now.