So, I decided to wait and pay full price and my one year comes up this Thursday. Is renewal automatic or do I just send some more money your way? Either is fine.
When I was in middle school I started going to a sleep away summer camp. I lived in a platform tent with a group of other girls and a counselor. And we were in a group of other platform tents, and at the bottom of the hill was the bathroom for the whole group, and the showers were a room with shower heads and nothing else.
So we all showered together and were naked together, and in some ways I think this was great for a body neutrality mindset: we all have bodies! They’re all shaped differently! Your summer camp counselor, a.k.a. The Coolest Person Simply Ever, has a body! And it maybe has hair, or maybe doesn’t, and probably has some bug bites and some pimples and probably doesn’t look like people in magazines because real life isn’t air brushed.
And on the other side, this was still the 2000s and seeing other girls be thinner, or talk about wanting to be thinner etc etc was rough! Because everything was out there and everyone could see who was thinner and who wasn’t and while I am sure we weren’t making judgement calls on who was prettier, the American middle school mindset brought on by The Media was still there.
And eventually, I was a camp counselor there for a few summers. And it’s the reason I don’t shave any of my body hair: I wanted the girls I was counseling (seems like the wrong word but also wasn’t far from true sometimes) to see that their Coolest Person Simply Ever had body hair all over and that having body hair isn’t a bad thing.
So that’s all rambly but basically: I think you should be nude with your friends! It’s fun! And affirming! And if you go skinny dipping and have saggy boobs: THEY FLOAT AND IT IS A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.
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So, I decided to wait and pay full price and my one year comes up this Thursday. Is renewal automatic or do I just send some more money your way? Either is fine.
Congratulations on your new job, Sophie!
Some thoughts on nudity:
When I was in middle school I started going to a sleep away summer camp. I lived in a platform tent with a group of other girls and a counselor. And we were in a group of other platform tents, and at the bottom of the hill was the bathroom for the whole group, and the showers were a room with shower heads and nothing else.
So we all showered together and were naked together, and in some ways I think this was great for a body neutrality mindset: we all have bodies! They’re all shaped differently! Your summer camp counselor, a.k.a. The Coolest Person Simply Ever, has a body! And it maybe has hair, or maybe doesn’t, and probably has some bug bites and some pimples and probably doesn’t look like people in magazines because real life isn’t air brushed.
And on the other side, this was still the 2000s and seeing other girls be thinner, or talk about wanting to be thinner etc etc was rough! Because everything was out there and everyone could see who was thinner and who wasn’t and while I am sure we weren’t making judgement calls on who was prettier, the American middle school mindset brought on by The Media was still there.
And eventually, I was a camp counselor there for a few summers. And it’s the reason I don’t shave any of my body hair: I wanted the girls I was counseling (seems like the wrong word but also wasn’t far from true sometimes) to see that their Coolest Person Simply Ever had body hair all over and that having body hair isn’t a bad thing.
So that’s all rambly but basically: I think you should be nude with your friends! It’s fun! And affirming! And if you go skinny dipping and have saggy boobs: THEY FLOAT AND IT IS A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.