{"id":15855,"date":"2018-05-01T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15855"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:11:45","slug":"web-exclusive-open-space-a-sunny-reminder-dont-body-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/05\/01\/web-exclusive-open-space-a-sunny-reminder-dont-body-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Web exclusive Open Space<\/em>: A sunny reminder: don\u2019t body shame"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of gray skies, the sun is finally here! And with the sunshine comes a barrage of pressure to get that perfect beach body, a picturesque figure worthy of Instagram likes.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s your jam, all the power to you. Do those squats and burpees and own the shit out of your bathing suit\u2014if you\u2019re brave (insane?) enough to do burpees, you\u2019ve earned it.<\/p>\n

But, even if you don\u2019t do burpees, you\u2019ve still earned the right to rock whatever clothing you want, and to feel comfortable doing so.<\/p>\n

The reality is this: summer in Victoria is not an air-conditioned oasis. Although we have little right to complain about our weather in comparison to the rest of the country, there are those couple weeks in the summer where it goes from glorious to gross\u2014I\u2019m looking at you late-July, early-August. During that time, the idea of wearing more than a minimal amount of clothing is gnarly.<\/p>\n

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So, logic would dictate that if you\u2019re hot and need to cool down, less clothing would be a productive solution to swass and under-boob sweat (yes, gentlemen, this is a thing). The problem with this logic is that while less clothes equals more comfort, less clothes also equals sexualization and social stigmatism.<\/p>\n

Like it or not, we still live in a society where the amount of skin we choose to show has sexual connotations attached to it. I wish this wasn\u2019t the case, but the amount of heads that turn when a girl walks down the street in short shorts and a crop top tells me otherwise. The way those heads turn also tells me if they are turning in appreciation or degradation.<\/p>\n

Observation: how those heads turn is more often than not correlated with the size of the person wearing said clothing. It\u2019s almost as if society is saying, \u201cIt\u2019s okay to wear that, but only if you\u2019re a size-two burpee addict.\u201d And it\u2019s infuriating.<\/p>\n

The truth is that it takes a certain amount of body confidence for anyone to walk down the street in short shorts, but even moreso if you have heinie dimples or a plus sign on your size tag.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re one of the amazing, strong goddesses who has mastered the art of owning your curves (side note: can you give me lessons?), you likely don\u2019t give a flying rat\u2019s patootie what other people think, but for those not as body-confident it takes a lot of courage to walk out the door in weather-appropriate clothing when \u201cweather appropriate\u201d equals \u201cminimal.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so easy to take a swipe at another\u2019s ego, even moreso if it\u2019s whispered out of earshot\u2014<\/span>but why? In my humble opinion, if someone is daring enough to brave chub rub, they deserve those short shorts.<\/p>\n

So, as the weather grows warmer and clothes grow smaller, I implore you: don\u2019t judge. Don\u2019t sexualize or shame, and rock the shit out of whatever you want to wear. Because everyone, not just the size-two burpee addicts, deserves to be comfortable. And everyone deserves the right to express themselves through their clothing, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After months of gray skies, the sun is finally here! And with the sunshine comes a barrage of pressure to get that perfect beach body, a picturesque figure worthy of Instagram likes. If that\u2019s your jam, all the power to you. Do those squats and burpees and own the shit out of your bathing suit\u2014if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15859,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions\/15859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}