[The Toll]

I'm not picking on you for your comment but it keeps coming up on this thread. Not everyone that thinks Marilyn Monroe was fat is a gay man who likes 12 year old boys. Many normal men like myself and even great men like Ronald Reagan like thin women. By no means would I consider Marilyn Monroe an icon of beauty, at one point yes, but that may have been prior to breast augmentation when her attributes were rare.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Beauty is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. It is those who set themselves up as arbitors of beauty (the fashion industry--the majority of which are gay men) who have basically presented the waif as the 'look.'

Sorry if you took offense...I happen to think MM was very pretty (in a movie star, larger than life way).

[exnavychick]

Thank you for sticking up for us skinny chicks, lol. :) I have been small all my life. Literally, they had to wait to start immunizations for me until I reached 10lbs...and I still wasn't that weight at 6 months. 33lbs at age five, and now at pushing 30,(after five babies) I weigh right around 100lbs, give or take. (Of course, I'm also short at 5'2)

I get tired of being accused of having an eating disorder because I wear a stinkin' size two. My permanent nickname is Miss Skinny...wonder how an overweight person would like it if I called them Miss Fatty. *sigh*

Some people are naturally heavier, and some are naturally thinner...there's room for all sizes of people, imo. Sorry for the rant, but this is a sore spot with me. :)