In 2017, people say what they want, when they want, and to whoever they want without thinking about the outcome. You get judged for everything you do, the way you dress, your haircut, your taste in music, the people you hangout with. You can't walk down the hall way in high school without being looked at by the "pretty girls" or being cat-called by the jocks. In 2017 it's not easy being a girl, and frankly, it never has.
You're allowed to love your body.
Let me say it a little louder for the people in back: you are allowed to love your body.
Tall, short, thin, thick, fat, full of scars, pimples, cellulite, all your flaws that make you who you are.
As young girls, our mothers or grandmothers or whomever would tell us how beautiful we were, and that we're so special and they love us so much; what has changed since then? From the day you were born and still now, you are beautiful and worthy.
Women are these beautiful creatures capable of more than what most believe to be true. Our body creates and holds tiny people in our wombs for nine months! Woman are special people, and it's time we stop shaming them for acknowledging it. If a guy is allowed to walk around in muscle shirts and his pants past his butt, then a girl is allowed to wear what she pleases. Society makes it almost impossible to love your body because it's all about what Kendall and Kylie wear out to social events, what Alexis Ren eats on a daily basis, and how a Victoria's Secret model works out to look the way they do. Young women are pressured to do what they can to look like this because of how society portrays these other women.
There is no "perfect body" no matter how strongly you believe there is. While you're sitting around wanting to look like the girl in your chemistry class, that girl is wishing she looked like the girl in her algebra class. If a girl loves her body and is confident, god bless her and I wish I could do the same. I've struggled with my appearance just as much as the next girl, but who are any of you to tell me my scars are ugly and my cellulite is hideous?
In this society we struggle to understand the concept of self love because of what we see on TV and what we hear people say to our faces or to our backs. I know I'm not the only girl who has dressed up for a night out totally feeling myself, then seeing myself in pictures and wonder, "why did I wear this?" or "did I really look like this all night?" If I feel confident to wear an outfit that I believe suits my body shape, then to hell with the guys who want to stare at me all night if they think I look skanky, I'm going to wear it and I'm going to rock that outfit.
You could post a somewhat revealing, but flattering picture of yourself on Instagram and get twelve comments, some from friends and some from guys complimenting you on how "hot" you look or whatever they might say. You know that you look good in the picture, that's why you posted it. But god forbid you were to say something back like, "thank you I know!" or anything along the lines of that, you will be judged. Someone will call you selfish, conceded, self absorbed, that you love yourself too much. Well, why would I post a picture of myself if I didn't look good in it?
It hasn't been easy growing up in this society, I'm sure others can agree, but in 2017 you can marry someone of the same sex, we have freedom of speech, you can vote, you can do all of these things so why can't we just love ourselves? Why does it have to be an issue when a girl actually acknowledges that they're beautiful. There are far too many girls who can't stand to see themselves in a mirror and not enough that are proud of the young, beautiful woman they are.