All right, time to rant So I was on Facebook last night when I came across this article
talking about something called the bellybutton challenge.
Weird name, I know.
So I read the article and my first response was: Seriously?
Stupid, stupid, stupid, so freaking stupid once again we see another trend aimed at young
women that make themselves feel horrible about themselves.
The Bellybutton Challenge is supposed to test your healthiness and what you do is you wrap
your one arm around your torso and you try to touch your bellybutton.
If you can touch your bellybutton, then you're healthy.
If not, apparently you're not healthy.
I'm not a scientist and I'm not a doctor, but I already know that this test is so beyond
inaccurate.
This challenge is so stupid; it is not accurate.
It does not test your skinniness or your healthiness.
It doesn't test anything except maybe flexibility.
The one thing I will give the bellybutton challenge is that it makes you want to try
it.
Because even if you can say logically in your head that this is stupid not at all an indicator
of healthiness you still kind of want to see if you can do it.
For those of you guys who haven't seen it, I'm going to do it right now just so you guys
can see what it looks like but then also realize how ridiculous it is.
All right, I'm going to try to do the Bellybutton Challenge.
Here we go!
So you're supposed to take your arm, wrap it around your torso, I don't know how you
do it!
Ow, this really hurts.
I'm going to try with my other arm.
See how that goes.
I can't do it!
Yeah, that was really dumb.
Look, I consider myself a very healthy person, fairly thin, and I could not do the Bellybutton
Challenge.
And even if I could, it doesn't matter cause guess what?
It's pointless!
Doesn't tell you anything about yourself.
Except that you did succumb to trying it, which I did.
You know what else I noticed when doing this Bellybutton Challenge is, besides how silly
I look doing it, is that it really hurts.
Like, it physically hurts me to do it.
Because you're wrapping your arm around your body in a way that it really isn't supposed
to bend or twist.
It hurts.
Let that just sink in that people are actually hurting themselves trying to prove how skinny
they are.
In a way, this challenge is almost poetic, it's showing the pain that people will put
themselves through to fit beauty standards.
Cause you're literally twisting your arm trying to see if you're deemed skinny enough for
society.
So stupid.
What I don't understand is why we keep insisting that beauty is some exclusive thing.
As if to be beautiful, you have to be part of some secret club; a club that keeps upping
its requirements to enter.
First, you just had to be thin.
Then you had to be tan, then you had to have long hair, then you had to have white teeth,
then you had to have long lashes, then you had to have a gap between your thighs, then
you had to have big lips, now what?
You have this ridiculous bellybutton thing?
And then the other day I saw some collar bone challenge where you try to fit coins in your
collar bone to see if you have a strong enough collar bone.
Where is the intelligence?
Who makes these?
Is there some center for idiotic trends where they just pump these things out?
Last week people were making out with jars trying to have Kylie Jenner lips.
And now they're trying to be contortionists with this Bellybutton Challenge.
I don't understand.
And what I find so horrible in all of this is that there are some people who believe
that this is an actual indicator of healthiness.
That if they can't touch their bellybuttons they're inadequate and they need to change.
To those people who believe that, I need you to know that you are worth so much more than
this meaningless test.
The #BellybuttonChallenge or whatever other crap beauty trend comes along does not determine
your value as a person.
Nor your beauty as an individual.
That is up for you to decide.
Screw what the magazines say, screw the stupid challenge, screw all the people who say you're
not enough.
Because you are.
If you're healthy, and I don't mean the size 0, flat abs healthy that the media tries to
sell you, but I mean actually healthy, then you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
You've got one body, and only one life so don't waste it worrying about these challenges
and trends that tell you you're not enough.
So that was a bit of a long rant.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed watching that little rant of mine.
I just really wanted to get that message out there; I saw the challenge last night and
I saw how it was negatively impacting a lot of people so hopefully it can help somebody.
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Byeee!
Guys I found the secret to doing the Bellybutton Challenge you just take your hand -- I did
it!