Ah, I wish I could have that coat... Oh and those boots!

So when I read the blogging assignment I though okay this should be easy. WRONG. Finding things you do unconsciously everyday is tough. So I went looking online. After looking at picture after picture I realized something. That same activity is what countless girls do each day. Looking, looking, looking at girls. Not in the way that guys would look at girls, but observing comparing the girls they see whether in person, in magazines, on TV, or on Facebook to themselves. We compare like crazy! Hair, makeup, clothes, body type, body movements, everything and anything. We compare and then we take actions based on what we observe. We try to do our hair like the girl we saw on the bus yesterday, or try standing like the girl flirting with that guy last weekend, or maybe we go and buy some super heels because models are always so tall and we secretly want a piece of that glamour (or what we've been told is glamour). In this sense, we are all subjectifying each other constantly; a giant circle of being influenced and influencing or in a term we have been using "pursuits without terminus." Of course this is our given choice, but as Bordo points out it feels good sometimes to get dressed up or exercise. The "docile body" makes perfect sense to me because everyone all the time is "eagerly going along" whether it is with fashion trends, the new diets, the new body type, the new hair style, the new phone, the new shoes, everything we are constantly keeping up whether we actively have to think about it or not. So I am suggesting to maybe catch yourself the next time you try something new. Are you doing it for yourself or just to keep up and try to reach that "intelligible body" that is impossible to attain?