This Video Perfectly Explains Why Body Image Is Different For Women

"Women in my family have been shrinking for decades," declares Lily Myers. Her slam poem, "Shrinking Women," which won Best Love Poem at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in April, perfectly expresses the pressure women feel to take up less and less space, to be quiet, to be small and to eat sparingly. She explains the difference between the ways men and women are socialized to her brother: You have been taught to grow out, I have been taught to grow in. You learn from our father ...