Excuse Me While I Bitch About “Perfection”
I think we need to do away with supermodels. No offense if you just so happen to be one of those naturally perfect people. I’m talking about those impossibly tall, anorexic, stick-figure-in-which-to-hang-clothing-upon sorts.
Eat a fucking sandwich. You just look plain gross, and I have no idea why society insists on pushing your disgustingness upon us.
Does anyone actually find the too-tall-skeleton-teenager-type attractive? Or the I-just-had-my-morning-dose-of-heroin-and-a-sniff-of-cocaine-eyes-glazed-over “beauty” sexy?
Growing up in a family with some very serious eating disorders, and going through points of my life where I struggled to swallow food myself (though thankfully, that has long since passed), I find it difficult to even glance in the mere direction of the I-just-barfed-up-my-bile folks. I know they are suffering from a horrible mental illness, and I can empathize with that. What I don’t understand is why the fashion industry actually seems to desire that.
Oh wait, that’s right, they don’t want them to actually *be* that unhealthy, they want them that way “naturally”.
Honestly, I would so much rather look at a real woman with curves model for a billboard or magazine. Skinny is not sexy. An ass to grab is.
And on a totally different rant, I would love to see unretouched photos for a change. Erasing every single cellulite ripple and stretch mark and pimple is giving viewers a completely false expectation of what women actually look like.
Even the size fours have fat in unwanted places and stretchmarks on their ass.
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Excuse me while I go make a batch of cookies.
Current Mood:
Angry
June 26th, 2009 at 10:07 am
After I had my son and could fit in size 5 I got brave and wore a bikini. A few photos of me were taken with the kids. I couldn’t stand looking at my ripples so I erased them with photoshop and fixed the blemishes too. Now I look back at the originals and wish I looked that good.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i totally agree.
i couldn’t force myself to have an eating disorder for five minutes if somebody paid me a million bucks per minute. i just love food too damn much.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I have a theory – they really aren’t all that interesting to look at. I think clothes designers like that so we pay more attention to the clothes.
But yeah, being that skinny and that unhealthy is totally unattractive and sad. I’ll take my curves any day over that!
June 27th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Oh look, a clothes hanger with legs and a head, sexy!!