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How Kim Kardashian's Nude Photo Can Teach Us A Lesson

Women are allowed to be smart and sexy.

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How Kim Kardashian's Nude Photo Can Teach Us A Lesson
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On March 7, Kim Kardashian posted a picture on her Twitter account that featured her nude with two black bars covering her. As a result of this picture, she received a lot of negative responses from celebrities like Piers Morgan , Bette Midler, and Chloë Moretz, essentially shaming Kim for posting this photo saying that it was "time for Kim Kardashian to put her clothes back on."

While some might agree that this picture was taking it a bit too far, Kim replied with a message on her personal website that has been re-posted on multiple Twitter accounts. Her message essentially states that she is proud to be a mother to two children but is also proud of her body. She writes "it's 2016. The body-shaming and slut-shaming -- it's like, enough is enough." Kardashian feels like she is allowed to be empowered by her body and still hold her titles as wife and mother. She feels like she should be able to show off her body because she is proud of who she is and what she's become now.

A lot of people don't agree that this is a proper way to teach girls how to feel empowered. Singer P!nk spoke out on Twitter writing that women shouldn't have to use money or their sex or their physical attributes to feel empowered and that they should be using "their brains, their strength, their work ethic, [and] their talent." She goes on to say that by using these things you will find a sense of pride and self-respect.

The main problem I find with this constant argument, over using sex appeal or brains to be attractive, is that why can't we use both? Am I not allowed to be an attractive woman who also makes Dean's List? Am I not allowed to be sexy when I pursue my Master's degree? No. A woman should be allowed to be whatever she wants and not have to fit into one category. Women are constantly told not to be proud of the bodies they have because they feel like, if they do, they'll be called a slut or a whore.

This is a problem and it needs to be fixed. Why don't we start to teach girls that they can be comfortable with their bodies and become a doctor? They should not have to feel cornered by society's pressures to be just one thing and keep their bodies locked away. Girls and women alike should be able to freely express who they are through the clothes they wear as well as who they choose to be. We should allow everyone to be comfortable with who they are because self-love can happen in so many ways.

As Kim Kardashian wrote, "I am a mother. I am a wife, a sister, a daughter, an entrepreneur and I am allowed to be sexy."

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