Searching for motivational weight loss images and quotes today, I came across this:
I am not sharing this because I like it. Quite the opposite. I think it’s pandering, trite, asinine bullshit.
What is the main message to this crap? That I should lose weight so that I don’t lose my easily straying man, who, according to the creator of this steaming pile of excrement, is so busy ogling other women that he won’t notice if I lose weight anyway?
In a nutshell, this image and its accompanying wordy (and un-proofread) text boils down to: (1) all women are petty, jealous bitches ferociously competing in a global beauty contest of epic proportions, apparently launching into cave-woman style MMA matches to declare ownership of someone’s man, and (2) all men are immature assholes constantly and hopelessly on the prowl for another woman, any woman but the one he is with, to check out and caress hungrily with his lusty eyes.
So, to answer the oft-repeated question above: no, I’m not okay with it. With any of it. I am not motivated by the concept of alluring other women’s dates to eye me up, thank you, and quite frankly, if my husband felt the need to “check out” other women as regularly as is implied in this moronic image, then he would not be my husband for very long. Luckily, I didn’t settle for an immature boy-child.
Maybe this image is the end-all, light-a-fire motivation for someone. Not me. Too insulting and catty and high-school-drama-ish for me. But I don’t like images or quotes, in general, that assume all women want to lose weight just so they can wear bikinis, meet society’s approval, and preen and hope everyone is staring at them and deeming them tiny enough. I prefer an emphasis on being strong, being fit, dominating, conquering, overcoming. Making yourself proud. Proving you can do it.
Now, those are much better!
Sweat & Sparkle 