Social Media and Body Shaming

This is just a small post here today. I'd like to talk more about body shaming. I hear and read a lot of it all over social media. I hear it against both men and women. Most notably against women of course and most recently I came across this article about arm hair.

Now I've come across many articles about what it is to be feminine and gender norms etc. This one here hit me only because admittedly I too have been shamed for it only it was years back when I was in grade 7 and 8. I wasn't even to my mid teens yet and here the girls were telling me I should shave my legs and the guys were telling me I should shave my arms because I had more arm hair than they did apparently and therefore I was not a girl I was more like a hairy ape is how they looked at me.

Emotional Stability,Disability and Accessibility

I do apologize to my readers that I have not written in so very long, since September to be exact. I've been very busy and didn't have the energy to focus in on writing. I not only was working but of course the holidays are always an emotional time for just about everyone, be it stress, anger, happiness. For myself it's always been a time of great stress and though I would like to think it's a happy time with friends and family most often it seems it is not. I did have some good times but for the most part for family reunion I didn't connect with anyone and really felt out of place and alone. I also have my birthday in December, and though that usually again is supposed to be happy, it usually has something, at least one thing, go wrong. This year, it was the passing of a good and close friend, think me silly for saying this, my cat Ozzy.