Friday, June 10, 2011

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I don’t want to be 16, 18 or 21 years old EVER AGAIN
I don’t want to be a SIZE SIX
I don’t want to hear that I ‘can’t wear’ anything that doesn’t require a bra
(Btw, I REALLY like bras)

I don’t want to be a FUCKING BLONDE!!!

I don’t want to pretend to be vegan/gluten-free/wheat-intolerant/‘only organic’
I don’t want CIGARETTES for BREAKFAST
I don’t want to only be as good as whom I’m photographed with at stupid parties
where everyone’s just killing themselves slowly anyway, and pretending they weren’t picked on at school
or even worse: pretending that they were
“Everyone was just so JEALOUS of me because I was so TALL and so THIN and it was just REALLY, REALLY HARD, y’know?”

I don’t want my career to suffer because I refuse to use my VAGINA as CURRENCY
I don’t want to bite my tongue when someone says something personally offensive TO MY FACE (or ABOUT my face)
I don't want it to sound like I'm suffering delayed teenage angst just because I think what is expected of me, my friends, my job, is fucked. up.

I WANT TO BE A WOMAN!!!
(Just like I always wanted to be when I grew up)
and I want you to be okay with that.

And if you say “So go get a different job”
I say “Why should I have to change, when I’m not the one fucking up half the population with the idea that being a hungry, poisoned, perpetual girl-child is only way to be attractive?”
or hell, just look nice in some expensive clothes

Oh, and did I mention

I DON’T WANT TO BE A FUCKING BLONDE!!!!!!!!!!?!
Posted by at 2:26 AM

8 comments:

  1. I wish there was a LIKE button on blogger!

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  2. Hi Tiah,

    I love your blog. You're words are brilliant and your photos are beautiful. I have made a blog on wordpress (www.frockswithdocs.wordpress.com) all about young ladies working hard and achieving really cool things. I was hoping to feature you in a blog post. Would you be able to answer a few questions for me? My email address is esthergallois@gmail.com.

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  3. I love this Tiah, it made me smile. A young girlfriend of mine just moved to New York, all starry-eyed and excited, and the first thing IMG told her is she needs to lose an inch and a half off her waist and hips. I think she's a AU 6/US 0-2. Never mind that she's gorgeous and fresh and her body as a whole is phenomenal, or that for her to lose that weight she'd have to starve completely or consume nothing but cock and cocaine. She's only 19 and it makes me sad that her spirit might be broken because some faction of the fashion industry is still so effing backward. Vogue Italia is putting plus sized models on covers and in New York City they're telling a girl who can run around inside a sample that she needs to lose weight? That's fucked up.

    You're gorgeous. Who told you to go blonde? Snore! Your hair is amazing.

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  4. i was just thinking that too, i wish there was a like button!

    love your blog, following x

    wander-lustt.blogspot.com

    ps. dont go blonde!

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  8. Beauty AND Brains...

    Love this post xx

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