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How about this is absolutely incorrect.
1. This person’s commentary assumes that “confidence” = “finding oneself physically attractive.” This is a huge mistake. Confidence in oneself pertains to a multitude of things, only one of which is finding oneself physically attractive. A person can be confident in his/her ability to perform athletically, academically, socially, comically, professionally, mischievously, musically, artistically, or really any manner of things. I can think I’m ugly as sin but still think that I can calculate circles around anyone when it comes to math. It’s belittling to say that because a person isn’t confident in his or her appearance, he or she isn’t confident period. Or, moreover, that someone’s confidence in one area is totally moot if they aren’t confident in every area.
2. I simply don’t understand how this “continues the construct that bodies are not our own.” I think it’s just a jumping-to-conclusions sort of thing. Confidence is, unarguably, attractive. It is attractive to see someone recognize their own success in a firm yet unpretentious way. That’s what confidence is. It’s sad when people feel that they need to downplay their strengths in order to make themselves overly-humble. I think that’s way more of a problem than asking people to give themselves a bit of credit.
I’m just so tired of seeing things like this. You hate yourself? Wonderful. You’re confident that you hate yourself? Even more wonderful. Someone else who is self-hating will see how confident you are about hating yourself, and you’ll fall in self-hate-love together and neither of you will realize the irony of it whatsoever.
Came across this while looking through my past “liked” posts. Reblogging this because it’s great.
