Stand Tall Tuesday

This is Ashley Judd.  Ashley, at first glance, is the daughter of Naomi Judd, sister of Wynona, and a very successful actress in her own right.  She also happens to be very smart,  having graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.  She has given her time to innumerable philanthropic projects, including Defenders of Wildlife, Equality, Eracism, and the International Research Center on Women.  


But you know what people want to talk about?  They want to tear her apart for looking "puffy" on her new television show.


"But, the actress writes, the conversation is really a misogynistic assault on all women."  The article in its entirety is below.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/09/ashley-judd-slaps-media-in-the-face-for-speculation-over-her-puffy-appearance.html

This is a reflection of a larger problem that is happening in our society, and without going into it too deeply, I will simply say that there is a larger denigration of women happening right now, with men going on about how Jessica Simpson, who is in the last months of her pregnancy is fat, how remarkably beautiful and smashingly bodied Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz at the Oscars were "long in the teeth."  Now we have lawmakers working very steadily at stealing reproductive rights that women have legally had since 1973, quietly signing laws that take away women's equal pay, etc.


Please read the above article, everybody.


I am in a business that regularly castigates women for not being thin enough, young enough, pretty enough, and fill in whichever "enough" strikes you personally.  And last but not least, know that you are "enough" of everything.