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Google "androgen insensitivity syndrome". I find it ironic that these women are supposed to be the epitome of femininity, when the majority of them have an extremely rare intersex condition. Since it is physically impossible for a healthy, average weight woman to ever look like that, the fashion industry has guaranteed that we will always be dissatisfied with ourselves. We will constantly wanting to buy the clothes "that we think will make us look like the women in the magazines." Not to mention the hair, the makeup, the shoes, the lifestyle, whatever they want to sell us in order to be perceived as "beautiful".
Next time you see a 6 foot tall, reed thin woman sulking on the catwalk, just think of these two words: undescended testicles. There's a very good reason why many women in the modeling industry choose to adopt children. They let the media assume that the women are so vain that they won't even get pregnant for fear of messing up their figures and their careers. They let everyone assume that they are shallow, when in fact they are infertile. (not that it's anyone's business in the first place!)
If you want more perspective, Naomi Wolfe's "The Beauty Myth" is a great place to start reading.
Google "androgen insensitivity syndrome". I find it ironic that these women are supposed to be the epitome of femininity, when the majority of them have an extremely rare intersex condition. Since it is physically impossible for a healthy, average weight woman to ever look like that, the fashion industry has guaranteed that we will always be dissatisfied with ourselves. We will constantly wanting to buy the clothes "that we think will make us look like the women in the magazines." Not to mention the hair, the makeup, the shoes, the lifestyle, whatever they want to sell us in order to be perceived as "beautiful".
Next time you see a 6 foot tall, reed thin woman sulking on the catwalk, just think of these two words: undescended testicles. There's a very good reason why many women in the modeling industry choose to adopt children. They let the media assume that the women are so vain that they won't even get pregnant for fear of messing up their figures and their careers. They let everyone assume that they are shallow, when in fact they are infertile. (not that it's anyone's business in the first place!)
If you want more perspective, Naomi Wolfe's "The Beauty Myth" is a great place to start reading.