Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
Interpretation
The quote discusses how societal ideals can lead women to alter their self-image and ultimately dislike themselves.
Susan Griffin's quote highlights a societal issue where ordinary women feel pressured to modify their bodies according to unrealistic and pornographic standards. This can lead to a disconnection from their true selves and foster self-hatred as they construct a false identity based on external expectations rather than embracing their authentic selves.
In practice
In a speech about body positivity, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of self-acceptance.
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
To advance the Gospel by political lobbying, by any form of pragmatism, shallow Gospel entertainment, emotional manipulation, acceptance of sin and sinners, is to cross over into the devil's work.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
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