I recently had a conversation with a friend around the
subject of dignity. How we allow people
to either uplift or belittle our own sense of dignity and self worth. I try to keep my “Random Thoughts” postings
short and sweet so I won’t go into details, but a lot of what we discussed led
back to the issue of stereotyping and expectations (good and bad) based on
perceptions with no solid grounding.
Stereotyping is usually unfairly based on many factors most
of which are totally out of the realm of our control; color, sex, heritage,
social status (or lack thereof), job (or lack thereof), education
(or lack thereof) and, yes, even weight and body type.
On the heels of the conversation I came across the following
picture. Strangely, this happens
frequently? Maybe my brain is just
tuned to the recent topic of conversation and notices appropriate material more
easily? But that sounds like a
discussion for a different blog! Back
on topic … this picture exemplifies the idea of stereotypes surrounding body
types. Whether overweight or not, some people
have preconceived notions of what other people are like. It’s not fair to the person believing the
stereotype, or to the person who is the subject of the preconceived idea. I think everyone loses out.
It made me think … so I thought I’d share it here.
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