Girls Girls Girls Magazine recently posted a video that went viral instantly. The main character of the video is actress Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda in Sex and the City.
Cynthia reads an abridged version throughout the nearly three-minute clip.
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Camille Renville, originally published on her blog, Notes of an Angry Woman, in 2017. The entire text is a kind of poem, a feminist manifesto that clearly shows and denounces all the unrealistic demands that modern society and the beauty industry make on women.
“Don't be too fat. Don't be too thin. Don't be big. Don't be small. Eat with gusto. Lose weight. Stop eating so much. Don't eat that fast. Order a salad. Don't eat carbohydrates. Don't eat dessert. You need to lose weight. Get into this dress. Go on a diet. Watch what you eat. Eat celery. Chew gum. Drink plenty of water. You need to fit into these jeans. God, you look like a skeleton. Why do not you eat? You look emaciated,”Nixon reads alongside fashion videos and Hollywood movies.
This video contains everything: the eternal dissatisfaction with the weight, and the desire to be feminine and tender, but at the same time sexy and attractive, the constant habit of disassembling oneself in parts and editing them (eyebrows, hair, skin, lips, hands), and a million others conflicting stereotypes that women have been captive to for centuries.
The video does not offer any solution or moral at the end - it just shows the obvious and leaves it up to viewers to draw their own conclusions. More than a million people have already watched it online on various platforms, and comments indicate that the problems of gender stereotypes and the ruthless beauty industry can and should be discussed in the modern world.
The full translation is provided in the post below.
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