There is an interactive forum on the BodyPositive website that asks readers to finish the following sentences:
1. “If I let myself eat anything I want … ”
2. “If I could get as much power as I really want …”
3. “If I had all the sex I wanted … ”
4. “If I really let myself cry … ”
5. “If I got as mad as I really feel sometimes …”
6. “If I let myself go … ”
After the feature had run for awhile I posted the answers I had received, and then the readers could see how similar their reactions were. The modal response to the first sentence stem, for example, was, “… I’d be big as a house.” There must have been a thousand of those.
A certain theme emerges as you look at the responses. Women are deathly afraid of
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