I am. a senior marketing specialist by title. I dabble. heavily in web & graphic design. I changed. my East Coast self for a Left Coast coat.
I collect. shoes, books, clothes and art supplies. I find. friends, memories, random joys and eternal hope. This is where I dabble. Here is where I write.
For some reason it’s NOT okay to call a woman out for being chubby, fat, out of shape, whatever, but it IS okay to liken her body to a 12 year old boy or assume she is anorexic/bulimic. It’s okay to tell a skinny person to “eat a sandwich!” but to tell a larger person to “eat a salad!” is unacceptable?
I think this whole “real women have curves!!” thing has gotten out of hand, to be honest. Real women come in all shapes and sizes. And fat does not equal curvy. I’m tired of seeing obese women champion themselves as curvy when they are in fact, not. After reading around online, I found out that most people have started equating curvy with fat and that quite a few seem to think that when a women is referring to herself as “curvy” it is code for “overweight”. I’m pretty sure the original definition of curvy was more along the lines of tits and ass, with a defined waist.
I’m not hating on anyone but I’m just tired of all of this. All that aside, I am madly in love with Miranda Kerr.
I agree. A few of my int’l friends and I have noticed that in other countries being fat is just a trait, not a damning statement on your success, beauty or anything else. I wish Americans would treat fat as just that. Sometimes we get chubbier or thinner, and people can comment on that w/o being afraid of offending.
Seems to me, the US’s weight figures are stretching towards the outliers: obese or anorexic. Let’s NOT champion the “curvy” woman but the “healthy” or “middle of the road” size instead. Yes, that means 4-8 for most women, and there aren’t as many exceptions as we think.
Mirand’s gorgeous. Just not my taste. :)