The Female Body

From my previous blog we have seen that the body is capable of doing a lot more than we thought. In the video I posted in the blog there was a short section that discussed ballet dancers and in that section we are told that 'women feel pain sooner than men but they have a higher tolerance for it'.
I want to explore this theory further.
When looking into pain tolerance between men and women it seems to be a little up in the air. Some scholars believe men can handle pain better and some women.
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/pain-management/do-women-have-a-higher-pain-threshold
This article above explains that, although we would have thought women would have higher pain threshold because they have to give birth, research has shown that it is in fact men.

http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/34/6/548.short
This article above also says that men can tolerate pain better than women.

It seems that most articles say that men should be able to cope with pain better because they are generally tougher where as others say women can cope with pain because they are made to deal with child birth. I think this subject is very up in the air and maybe has nothing to do with gender but more the individual.

The Ideal Women
Most men have a picture of the ideal women in their head and on average this picture tends to be the same. Research has shown that men prefer an hourglass figure (smaller hips with a larger waist) with large breasts. Gives me an idea for my costume in my performance. Could maybe try and create/ show an hourglass figure with my costume.
When people look at the female body the main thing we focus on is the breast and the bottom. Why is this?
The video below shows an experiment to find the perfect body.
http://www.maniacworld.com/perfect-female-body.html

The idea of having a 'sexy' female body is constantly spread about magazines and there is usually an annual rating of who has the sexiest body of that year. When you look at these magazines all the bodies are exactly the same and this then creates a social norm for what the perfect body should be. As a result females feel uncomfortable in their bodies because unless you're famous it is almost impossible to have one of these perfect bodies.
Social norms have also made it acceptable for us to judge the female body in the most intense way possible and people give their opinion on peoples bodies (mainly those in magazines) and these opinions can be extremely hurtful. This is another reason people are unhappy with their bodies, people are too picky and with that too strict.

What most people think is that, in order to be beautiful we have to change something about ourselves. For example, lose some weight or colour our hair etc. And this is not true. Women need to realise that no matter how much we change things about ourselves we will never be comfortable in our bodies until we accept who we are. 
I want to get people to feel comfortable in their bodies without having to change who they are but instead ACCEPTING who they are.


Weighing yourself in public is one of the hardest and most embarrassing things for a women to do. Could maybe have a live weighing in my performance?


'BELIEVING YOU ARE UNATTRACTIVE IS A LEARNED HABIT'

Some of the information above has come from this website:
http://www.emotionalwellbeingblog.com/2009/11/6-steps-to-feel-good-about-your-body.html