(sorry, that was me on the anonymous post previously. hadn't remembered to log in.)
I think that statements of the form "I hate my body", especially when made in a public forum, are sometimes very useful. For example, if the person stating that has nothing visibly out of the ordinary with their body, then the feedback she (i'm saying "she", since I think the vast majority of people who would make that statement are female) receives from people who care about her may cause her to learn things she didn't know before (her friends care when she makes statements like that, they don't think there's anything the matter with her body, they think she's beautiful or striking or whatever positive adjective applies to her).
Some people say it because they don't know anything else to say that would represent how they feel. Some people say it because they haven't thought about what saying it would mean about them, and their relationship to themselves. Some people actually do hate their bodies, and wish they lacked some physical trait that is hateful to them.
Some people say it simply to get attention, which may in itself be useful (it's hard to get attention if you're only talking to yourself...).
Not amazingly sure whether this has any point other than "their mileage may vary". :)
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Date: 2012-04-08 06:03 pm (UTC)I think that statements of the form "I hate my body", especially when made in a public forum, are sometimes very useful. For example, if the person stating that has nothing visibly out of the ordinary with their body, then the feedback she (i'm saying "she", since I think the vast majority of people who would make that statement are female) receives from people who care about her may cause her to learn things she didn't know before (her friends care when she makes statements like that, they don't think there's anything the matter with her body, they think she's beautiful or striking or whatever positive adjective applies to her).
Some people say it because they don't know anything else to say that would represent how they feel. Some people say it because they haven't thought about what saying it would mean about them, and their relationship to themselves. Some people actually do hate their bodies, and wish they lacked some physical trait that is hateful to them.
Some people say it simply to get attention, which may in itself be useful (it's hard to get attention if you're only talking to yourself...).
Not amazingly sure whether this has any point other than "their mileage may vary". :)