BODY SHAMING

the action or practice of humiliating someone by

making mocking or critical comments about their

body shape or size.

BODY SHAMING
THE GOOD BODY
by EVE ENSLER
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Eve Ensler is an internationally bestselling author and

Tony Award winning playwright whose theatrical works
include the Obie Award winning The Vagina
Monologues, as well as Necessary Targets, Emotional
Creature and The Good Body. She is also the author of
the political memoir, In the Body of the world.
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She is also the founder of V-DAY, the global

movement to end the violence against women
and girls that has raised more than $100
million for local groups and activities.
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Eve Ensler’s The Good Body was published in 2004 by Villard
Books. This 92 page book, which sells for $19.95 in the
United States, is organized as a play, and it is a short, easy to
read book full of unique stories. Through stories shared by
women all over the world, Eve Ensler communicates the
theme that the strive for “perfect” personal appearance can be
found anywhere.
 VOCABULARY WORDS
SCRAWNY – Very thin in a way that is not attractive or
healthy
TESTOSTERONE –qualities, (such as noticeable strength and
agrressiveness) that agree with traditional ideas about what
men are like.
DEPRIVED- not having the things that are needed for a good
and healthy life
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OMNIPRESENT- present in all places at all times

NEUROSIS- an emotional illness in which a person
experiences strong feelings of fear or worry.
MAPLE- a type of tree that grows in northern parts of the
world and has hard wood often used in making a furniture.
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CREEPING- developing or advancing by slow imperceptible
degrees
FLABBY- lacking resilience or firmness/ weak and
ineffective
CRACKS- to hit or press (something) so hard that it breaks
apart or opens suddenly.
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My body will be mine when I’m thin. I will eat a
little at a time, small bites. I will vanquish ice cream. I
will purge with green juices. I will see chocolate as
poison and pasta as a form of self-punishment.
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I will work not to feel full again. Always moving
towards full, approaching full but never really full. I
will embrace my emptiness, I will ride into holy zones.
Let me be hungry. Let me starve please.
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Bread is satan. I stop eating bread. This is the same as not
eating food. 4 days in, a scrawny actress friend tells me “Eve,
your stomach has nothing to do with diet.” “What?” Its the
change of life,” she says. “All you need is some
testosterone.”I try to imagine what I would be like, totally
bread deprived and shot up with tostesterone. “Serial
Killer”comes to mind.
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I’m walking down the New York City street, and I catch a
glimpse of this blond, pointy-breasted, raisin-a-day
stomached smiling girl on the cover of Cosmo Magazine. She
is there every minute, somewhere in the world, smiling down
on me, on all of us. She’s omnipresent. She’s the American
dream, my personal nightmare.
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Pumped straight from the publishing powerplant into

the bloodstream of our culture and neurosis. She is
multiplying in every corner. She was passed through
my mother’s milk and so I don’t even know that I’m
contaminated. Don’t get me wrong. I picked up the
magazine.
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No, no, no. It’s the possibility of being skinny good that
keeps me buying. I discover a Starbucks maple walnut scone
expanding in me, creeping out. Flabby age leaking through
the cracks. Big Macs, French Fries, Pizza Land, can’t stop.
My stomach is America, I want to drown in the cement.
Obviously, I’m missing something. Maybe if I go find the
woman who thought this up, she’ll reveal the secret
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