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"They look like 12 year old boys with breasts."
We're out here, but we're told we aren't fashionable.
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I was watching a movie with Betty Grable and another with a huge Busby Berkley dance number. I realized very quickly that NONE of these women would have been employable in Hollywood today unless they lost at least 40 to 50 lbs.
How sad.
It is called Metrosexuality...coming soon to a theatre near you...
The standards of female beauty in the arts and media are dictated by male fashion designers, art directors, choreographers, etc.
These men are not like normal men. They are almost universally queer, and a large majority are hebephiles (perverts who are sexually attracted to teenagers.)
They want their women to look like adolescent boys because that is what they consider most beautiful.
-ccm
I personally am not attracted to over-weight or anorexic looking gals.
After all is said and done the perfect female form is slender but a little fat in the right places. They can be tall, but not over 6'2" or as short as 4'11". Anything over or under is a little odd looking.
Well, one of the women with curves lives with me. She's my wife.
On the one hand, I have often thought I was born in the wrong century. It seems to me this attitude started sometime circa 1920. I was born in 1950. If you look at snap shots of the beautiful women at the turn of the last century, it seems to me that the most desireable of that era carried more than a nuance of curve.
The whole thing is pernicious. Not only are the lasses told by popular culture what they need to be in order to get the best lads, but the lads are told what must appeal to them in order to be normal, perhaps even sane. Luckily, I learned in my youth that you can sometimes be happiest by sticking your thumb in the eye of popular culture. I have found that once I suggest a woman looks better with a bit of the curve, I find more than a few on the men in the conversattion agree with me.
On the other hand, luckily, few of the lasses are really built to be 5 foot 6 and 93 pounds. Even if they want to look that way, Mother Nature moves against them at every turn. Then, during a pregnancy, Mother Nature rearranges the parts even more. Then, WOW!
What I find to be the sexiest of them all are women of the curve who know as they know their ABC's that, despie the best efforts of the chattering people, most guys find them irresistably attractive and revel in that knowledge.
Oh, yes, it's been years since I looked at most of what came out of Hollywood as much more than mindless entertainment. I need that now and then because real life can be stress filled despite the fact that there are so many sexy lasses out there to see.
Wow. Have I been waiting for a question like this!
When I was young, I 'developed'by the age of 9. I was the only girl in the 4th grade to wear a bra. Thus began my travels into a world I was truly not prepared for, nor would I understand the consequences of it until much later.
Remember the late 60's early 70's when Twiggy came into light in the fashion world? She was tall, beautiful, and EXTREMELY thin. Thus began the craze of the quest to be thin, as the MEDIA picked up on it and lead the American public to believe this was the only way to be accepted.
My mother worked for a modeling agency in the 70's, owned by her high school friend. It was called 'Cosmopolitan 3", and located in Louisville, KY. I used to go there after school when I was a child - played with the make-up, walked the runway, and dreamed of being 'in the business'. Now remember, this was the time of 'Twiggy', and girls like me did not get parts for anything. Mother sent me on a job one time, because there were no others available - but I was too big, and didn't get the part in the commercial. It went to the daughter of another model - this girl was my age, not developed, and pencil thin. I learned early that 'curves' were not in.
This continued through the 80's (my high school years), as all the small girls got the guys, were picked for the plays, and usually stole the limelight wherever they went. If you were not a size 4 or smaller, you were not 'in'.
In 1984, I was 17, 5'5 1/2 and wore a size 10/12. By Marilyn Monroe standards, I was exactly where I should have been. By the modeling world's standards (and my mother's) I was much too large. I married in June of 1984, just one month after graduation - having given up on all my dreams, as 'mommy dearest' told me the man I was dating (5 years my senior) would be the only man I would ever find. This is not something you tell a 17 year old, but nonetheless, the way my 'Adult' life began.
Back to topic - when you look at the MSM,all you see are tiny models and actresses - a tradition carried on from the 70's through today. Hollywood sets the standards, the media puts it out to the public, and convinces young girls that only size 2's and down (yes Virginia there is a '0') are acceptable in society. And then people wonder why there is such a HIGH rate of Bulemia, Anorexia, and drug abuse among teen girls.
When I got pregnant with my first child in 1985, my mother told me she was very upset because she wanted me to lose weight before I got pregnant. Not happy to be a grandmother - and concerned about how her daughter was going to reflect on her. I gained 50 lbs. with my 1st, lost a little (7lbs.9 oz., to be exact ), and then my second son pushed me to add another 37 lbs. On his first birthday, I weighed 230lbs. and knew I had to do something.
Okay - back to topic. As a 'heavey person with curves', I was told a million times - you have such a pretty face, if you would just lose weight'. It took 4 years, but I dropped 100lbs.
When you are heavey, you are invisable. When you are thin - the whole world will give you attention (well, your world), and add blonde hair - and you are in!
The 'thin revolution' is something that began in the 70's, was pushed by the MSM, and carried through til today. It has been the cause of countless sessions with psychologists, depressed teen girls and women. Have you ever picked up a 'woman's catalog'? The sizes begin at '12'. Unless you are under 5'tall, a size 12 is not large. Marilyn Monroe was a 16!
Okay, this concludes my rant for today. You see nothing but thin women because the MSM has convinced American men that thin is sexy. It has convinced women that the only way to be accepted is to be thin. And, the more America buys into the myth - the more it will continue. Sex sells - plain and simple.
Women like Queen Latifah, Starr Jones, and Oprah are helping to change the image. But have you noticed - they too have had to give a little and join the dieting world. They are who they are and will be who they are and will not accept anything else. But look at Kirstie Alley. She has gained some weight - but she is BEAUTIFUL, too! But, she is now starring in 'The fat actress, something to makes the rest of us girls feel, again, like we must conform to be somebody. And it's TRUE! I'm guessing here, but I assume for Kirstie, it was this job or no job, as she had been 'black listed' by Hollywood. 'Branded', if you will.
Until Hollywood goes with the Oprahs and Queen Latifahs of this world, and makes it acceptable for all, girls like Kirstie (and the rest of us) will be forced to continue this diet-go-round until we are taken seriously.
As for me - the fluctuation of 5-10 lbs can be the difference between acceptance and invisibility. And that's the way it is....Just Kimberly, 5'5 1/2", size 10/12 or 14/16 (depending on the day) and struggeling to be me.
Thanks for asking this question!