Kozmohs a place for people who have no idea whats going on.
I had a friend tell me in regards to her wanting to lose weight: "Oh you know how it is, men just like pretty things. They like to see fit girls."
I had all the words in my head to tell her that this isn't the way you should be thinking, but I stayed silent. She was forced to believe the lie her family and society has enforced on her since forever.
I mean, that's all we grow up learning, is that only skinny pretty girls will receive attention.
I myself was always sort of confused as to what it all meant. I struggled with my own issues and at that point in time, I didn't have an outlet to learn about the dangers of living in a patriarchal society.
There are approximately 65% of girls who feel insecure about themselves.
Who probably also feel lost in who they are
Who don't have an outlet to let them know its okay to feel that way, but to be able to pick themselves up from it and learn what is going on in their world
I was clueless at 14, I didn't know know how the world affected me. How its long "traditions" of constantly putting women down and making them feel less than was personally affecting me.
There needs to be a better outlet for young girls and boys who feel lost in this patriarchal world.
The kind that I didn't have growing up.
So i decided to create one, it's called Kozmohs.
Why the name "Kozmohs"
According to Google, "Cosmos" means
The universe seen as an ordered whole
and
A system of thought
I want Kozmohs to be:
- Informative
- Creative
- Sort of like "big sibling" relationship with who ever ends up reading the blog.
- A way to learn about this world that kids are being thrown into
It's a learning experience
BECAUSE ITS OKAY TO NOT KNOW IT ALL.
Body image
- Unfortunately, a lot of people feel insecure about themselves.
- Who don't know it's okay to not fit a certain mold
- I wrote post representation and how that can fit in feeling insecure about yourself, but how that it's something that has been going on for so long
I write about my own personal struggle with beauty
and being fed up not fitting this "beauty" mold given to me as a kid
I always incorporate a sort of personal narrative into my posts
bUT I WANT IT TO BE INFORMATIVE
Ideally...
I'd want different people to write on this blog as well. There are so many things that I personally can't write about.
I can do all the research I can, but it won't be the same.
I decided to reblog posts already on tumblr as a way to fill in that missing gap.
I don't want it to just be my voice, I want it to be everyone's voice.
A Tumblr user wrote....
"A pledge to myself"
I remember when I was sixteen, and I was taking Media Studies as a high school subject...There were about ten boys in our class of around thirty. Most of us hated learning about this stuff. We felt we were being perpetrated as the ‘bad guys’ who were objectifying women and making them feel like shit... Looking back, I still hated the class, and the people in it, but it opened to my eyes to how much of a shitty deal women are offered in the world. Really, if you’re a white heterosexual male like myself, you really have nothing at all to bitch about. You don’t have to face battles for race, gender, gay rights or other large movements that have been occurring across the globe for the last 100 or so years, nor do you HAVE to do anything about it. But you have a choice to change that... Most of all, I will uplift and support whatever roles the women in my life commit to and play through with. My mother, my wife, my daughters, my friends, my classmates, my co-workers. I will work to improve not only the world they live in so they can make a change, but I will work to improve myself into a brighter, stronger and more well-rounded person. I will change who I am as a man
another tumblr user wrote
Since I was very young, the pressure to look a certain way or have a certain weight were always present, they were ideas pushed even by my mother and other family members. Growing up as an overweight girl has never been easy for me. And it still isn’t. Personally, I don’t really get harassed about how I look anymore, and I guess that this is because more people are realizing how rude and just disgusting it is to put someone down because of the way their body looks. Regardless of that, learning to love and accept myself in my own skin is still not a reality for me. I have felt and continue to feel insecure about my body, and this interferes with so many things in my life. I find it really sad that so many people are still feeling pressured to lose or gain weight, to achieve this prototype of a body, through unhealthy ways. There is such a distorted view on what a healthy body actually is, because skinny doesn’t mean healthy.