Not sure if I want to leave permanently or if I should just let my SG account as it is, activated, and wait for a year or two to see how things go here. I may choose the second option and remain silent for a while. Seems somehow hypocritical though. And I hate hypocrisy.

SG has become one big, big paradox to me.

I wish it was a place where women would be allowed to express their opinions openly and say out loud:

I know who I am.

This is who I am.

I embrace it.

I know who I am not, and I am not the product of my society.

I have no complex. About my body. About my opinions. About my life choices.

I am free. I didn’t let anyone condition me to believe in the shitty things the society wants me to believe in. I am free from the education my parents gave me, from the prejudice, from the system telling me what is beautiful, ugly, good, bad. I am free from you – who see my naked body on the Internet – and from what you may think of it.

No tattoos or piercings involved here. Values, only.

Isn't SG supposed to be a place where difference and pride in being different prevail? Does it celebrate alternative beauty and way of life of women from all over the world, as it says it does?

All I personally see today here is the celebration of professional photo retouching, professional quality photography and the race towards perfect, flawless bodies in perfect, flawless sets. This is not me.


Questions:

Are over-retouched photographs helping in redefining beauty?

How cosmetic surgery could possibly be compatible with alternative beauty?

Which leads to the hardest one: how digitally manipulated photographs of surgically retouched girls could convey a positive message on alternative and redefined beauty?

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