"How many of us, for example, with a certain sense of satisfaction, of cheerful American pragmatism, have turned our bodies into exteriorized projects - spending our off hours getting them into shape, giving them new faces, painting and remodeling them in quite the same house proud manner in which homeowners treat their prized and objectified secondary dwelling places ?" (46)
This part of Sobchack's "Is Any Body Home?" stood out to me when I read it. I love the way she related "painting and remodeling" a persons body to a persons house. Many times, people feel exiled from their own bodies and feel the need to try and change the way they look. They want to try and fit in or to be approved for the way they look. We all spend time in gym, hair salons, barbershops, shopping malls, looking for a way to alter our exterior. But are we doing this for self or for others ? And we do this for different reasons; low self-esteem, media, and past experiences have an impact on what we do to ourselves physically.
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