Are Your Lady Parts Pretty Enough?

I was appalled to read this blog post. (It's going to be a long post)

Apparently the Vagina institute wants you to look at your vagina, not as a way to feel empowered, feel beautiful or feminine, but as a way to find out if it's pretty enough. You know that after a long day of classes, work, and projects the last thing you want to think about before being intimate with your partner is if your vagina is pretty enough. You are constantly concerned that the person with who you will be intimate will make a disgusted face or bluntly tell you 'Your vagina is gross, let's just go to bed. Playtime is over.'

Let's face it, in a nation where everything has to be pleasing to the eye (god forbid you have hair anywhere but on your head, then again 'mustaches' and 'unruly eyebrows' or 'short lashes' are frowned upon) we all need surgery because we are imperfect. We've taken care of saggy and small breasts by enhancing them, we have liposuction to get rid of all the unnecessary fat, we have face lifts because no one wants to look at wrinkles, for people who feel self-conscious about their butt we have implants, oh and let's not forget cellulite. So once we got rid of all the stuff you can see while wearing a bikini, let's go for the vagina.

Looking through any magazine you'll feel pretty crappy about your body. One ad tells you that you have way too much facial hair, only men have mustaches so get it removed with a laser, wax and creams. So you go to your local grocery store and walk into the beauty section buy yourself some of that wax, or walk into a doctors office and get your mustache removed by a laser and you feel relaxed! A big hairy burden has been lifted off your shoulders! When you go to the store to buy groceries you pick up another magazine,you go home feeling good about yourself because you don't have a mustache anymore, you're beautiful.

So you sit down to relax, open up the magazine and see an ad in every other page about weight loss. If you buy these pills you'll lose 40 pounds in a week! If you pay about $10 a day you will get meals scientifically proven to make you lose weight (of course they do, you're eating 1/4 of what you're used to). A surgeon can suck that fat out of you or they can do weird things to your insides so that you're not that hungry anymore. So once again the burden is upon you, the weight comes back in the shape of two giant greasy cheese burgers and it needs to come off!

You go to a doctor and ask him for liposuction because you're 10, 20, 30, or even 200 pounds overweight and for the price of a car he will suck what he can out of you or staple your stomach if you're too big. If you can't afford it you call the 1-800 number and order those pills, only to find out a week later that you're not 40 pounds lighter. After that disappointment, you call a company that sends you tiny meals scientifically proven to promote weight loss. After the doctor visit or many weeks, months or years of eating tiny meals you're finally thin, every man's dream! You buy smaller clothes because the others are way too big and those giant cheeseburgers are finally off your shoulders and you drive home to relax in your smaller clothes. Yay!

When you come home you realize that the shirt doesn't fit very well. It must be a mistake, it's probably irregular, there's no way that my bust is not big enough fill in the shirt. Convinced that your body is fine but the shirt is irregular you decide to return it to the store the next day. You lay in bed turn on the tv and after seeing so many beer commercials, Victoria's Secret commercials, and plastic surgery shows you realize, 'OH NO, my breasts are way too small!' The next day you make an appointment with the plastic surgeon and he tells you that your suspicion is correct. Though the burden on your shoulders is in the shape of tiny breasts it's still pretty heavy so you pay the man to painfully insert implants into your body. It takes a while for your breasts to look normal not bruised, cut up, and scarred and you think to yourself 'my breasts are perfect!'

Oh the drive home from work you see an billboard telling you that your teeth aren't white enough and to avoid another heavy burden you rush to your dentist and whiten your teeth.

The next day you fell good so you think to yourself 'I'm thin, mustache free, have white teeth, my breasts are adequate, and I'm healthy. My life is perfect!' But then you run into an ad for The Vagina Institute and it makes you wonder "Is my vagina pretty enough?" There's another burden on your shoulder, this time in the shape of an ugly vagina. You decide to beautify your vagina, you went out of your way to look beautiful, your vagina will not be ugly!

I think that it's ridiculous that after being exposed to so many make up ads, weight loss products/services, hair removal of all sorts, and so much plastic surgery that you can look like a celebrity, we should get a break. Leave our vaginas alone! What is a beautiful vagina? Hair free? Symmetrical? Formed in the shape of a rose? Who decides what a beautiful vagina looks like? Do they take pictures of many vaginas, put them on a wall and have many people take a vote on the perfect one? I don't get it!

Fine, I'll shave my legs, my arm pits, I'll remove my mustache, I'll join a gym, have my teeth whitened, but my vagina is to be left alone. I will let no one modify it, it is to be left as it is until the day I die!

America has put beauty on a pedestal, many women have mutilated their bodies in an attempt to become beautiful. For example Jocelyn Wildenstein who has spent over 4 million dollars on plastic surgery and the result is horrifying!

She was a beautiful woman, and now she looks like the Elephant Man.

So ladies, embrace your beauty, leave your armpits hairy, leave your eyebrows alone, let your hair down naturally, and throw out that makeup, let's all embrace our inner 'Ugly Betty'!