Apparently clothing is a prerequisite for intelligence.
Recently Cassie's friends and colleagues found out that she has been a nude model. Cassie is studying Psychology and is about to undergo her masters degree. According to Cassie her photos have quickly circulated around her circle of friends and academic colleagues. She said she is having trouble dealing with their response and is concerned it might affect her future work and studies that they won't take her seriously. All I can say is... Seriously? Not Cassie's dilema, but her "friends" and "peers" reaction.
Cassie is a brilliant woman. She has to be if she is doing a masters degree. If her peers found out that she has also been a nude model, do they really think that because she posed nude that makes her "simple" and incapable of doing her job or continuing her studies, or that she no longer can supply any further valuable knowledge? What a Victorian attitude in the 21st century. In some things we really have made little to no progress at all in several centuries.
If people really do think like that then they have to look deep within themselves. Cassie nude or clothed, model or academic, is still the same person. She is bright vibrant, funny, brilliant, caring, warm, genuine person. Her clothing or lack thereof has not changed who she is. If anything it shows that she is capable of being more than the average person. To go the extra step. To be more than her peers, because she was willing to put not just her body on the line for art, but people's perception of her. Unfortunately if her peers are psychologists, if they are people that study human behaviour, and if they did indeed react in such a negative way, well.....what great paper this is for them to study. They have first hand experience as to how so called rational educated people can so quickly turn on and disavow one of their own....because they saw her naked.
What is even more astounding is that this reaction to seeing Cassie nude is a pavlovian response. Something that Cassie as a student of psychology should have noticed. We are not born with this irrational reaction. As children we are happy to run around totally naked. So called "primitive" cultures also happily run around naked, totally unselfconscious of theirs or others nudity. It is only our "modern" and "advanced' civilization that reacts to nudity in this way. Using the two examples before it is clear that we are conditioned to respond to nudity with such overreaction, judgemental manner.
It is a conditioning we pass onto future generations, dooming them to go through the very same problems, issues and consequences as before. it is time we take a stance to this and just accept that we are naked beings. That we are happy in our nudity. That no matter if we run around naked at home, or for leisure, it does not make us deviants, weirdos, or danger to society. it does not mean we are incapable of performing our duties, it does not mean we are incapable of being professional in our chosen field or represent the organisations we work for. It is a part of us as much as taking breath. We are born naked and we live naked. Deal with it!
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