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I was driving my girls to the grocery store, accompanied by Shania Twain's singing in the background. I'm not much of a country music fan, but Shania gets my respect because she's got decent music and she changed the face of country music. I took a moment to explain this female empowerment to my girls, something that I do often when the opportunity presents itself. There's tons of unrealistic expectation placed on women (duh), so I hope my efforts will counter that just a bit.
Enter Kim Kardashian.
We see a magazine cover in the checkout line with Kim on it, showing off her goodies in a small black bikini. Nothing new, but this one was a little different. It was in response to someone giving her crap over having airbrushed photo shoots. Even worse, they called her fat. To defuse any negative press (and to gain a load of positive press), she posed on a whim in her backyard wearing her mom's bathing suit. The accompanying cover lines read, "This is the real me. I love my body. You should love yours, too."
Whenever we see someone doing something wrong or acting in a behavior we probably would find inappropriate, we usually keep our opinions to ourselves.
