Rosario Dawson: Body Pressure On Women Is ‘A Form Of Violence’

[Horse with no Name]

http://jezebel.com/5825516/rosario-dawson--body-pressure-on-women-is-a-form-of-violence

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Rosario Dawson says of receiving compliments when she lost weight to play a drug addict in Rent:

"I remember everyone asking when I was doing press for the movie, 'What did you do to look so thin? You looked great' and I'm like, 'I looked emaciated' ... It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be — for what sake? Not health, not survival, not enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that."

She adds that she's "grateful to be on the cover of Shape and be able to show myself, my normal self."

[derby378]

1. No, not violence, but certainly intimidation

Women's rights are vitally important - but so is the ability to express oneself clearly.

[DURHAM D]

3. You are male and out of line. end of conversation

[Jim Lane]

7. Do you believe there is such a thing as evil that is not violence?

I believe the post that you called "out of line" was making this point: that the word "violence" doesn't encompass every form of injustice or human wrongdoing.

That point, incidentally, is unrelated to the gender of the DUer making it.

[Merlot]

2. Rosario is awesome! Saw her in Rent - she played an addict who dies.

She was wonderful.

Good for her to speak out on this topic.

[qazplm]

4. shes still thinner than 99 percent of all

humans in that photo.

I think engaging in hyperbole detracts from a good message. It is not a form of violence. It is however something that should be snuffed out of our society.

[caraher]

5. Last summer a young woman I know was on her way to killing herself...

with an eating disorder, and it was frightening how many of her friends on Facebook complimented her on her weight loss and how "hot" she looked.

This forced her to leave college, she has been hospitalized... but the main thing they noticed is she no longer had the few extra pounds she used to have, and not the skin and bones her body had become.

[PoliticAverse]

6. I wonder if they airbrushed that cover photo any...

(well the Photoshop equivalent anyway)

[HappyMe]

8. I don't think it's a form of violence.

There is pressure on women to look young, thin, and have decent 'assets'. An actress probably feels this more than most. Society is very youth oriented. But just because movie & tv stars & magazine ads show beauty one way, that doesn't mean you have to run straight to the plastic surgeon. Most of this pressure comes from within.

There are plenty of women that experience physical & verbal abuse every day. That's the real violence.