She had hips; she had breasts; she was a proper woman!
Kind of a double-edged sword there, though, isn't it? The current standard being that stick-thin is what a woman "should" be, but someone else saying that a "proper" or "real" (god, how I hate the term "real") woman has some fat on her.
I mean, hey, I've got hips and boob to SPARE, so I'm not complaining about that, really. I'm just saying that there shouldn't really be ANY standard for what a woman should be.
Well, other than "she has to have a vagina of some sort." That should really be the only criterion.
I don't know if even THIS has to be the criterion. Gender doesn't necessarily have to match the genitals. I have a friend who's a woman and she has a penis!
I get your point. It's not my place to dictate what a woman is "supposed" to look like. If a woman is naturally skinny, then I'm hardly going to hold that against her. I'm simply tired of looking at women who are clearly underweight and being told "this is beauty." Because in my eyes it's not. There's a difference between being naturally thin and grossly malnourished.
This is very true. I don't think emaciated is beautiful, either. But for some reason, society does.
I honestly think it's misogyny at work, here. These days, women are told they can be anything they want to be. It almost seems like the price we pay for this "generosity" is that the beauty standard is changed to something so impossible, that we'd have to practically kill ourselves to live up to it. We still have to please. They're just making it harder because we've been "given" more freedom these days. So I guess this is how we have to earn it.
That probably makes no sense. I still have a fever, and I had a horrible dream about being tortured last night. So my brain don't work so good.
Kind of a double-edged sword there, though, isn't it? The current standard being that stick-thin is what a woman "should" be, but someone else saying that a "proper" or "real" (god, how I hate the term "real") woman has some fat on her.
I mean, hey, I've got hips and boob to SPARE, so I'm not complaining about that, really. I'm just saying that there shouldn't really be ANY standard for what a woman should be.
Well, other than "she has to have a vagina of some sort." That should really be the only criterion.
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I don't know if even THIS has to be the criterion. Gender doesn't necessarily have to match the genitals. I have a friend who's a woman and she has a penis!
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Whether they are born with the vagina or not doesn't matter, as long as at some point, they have it.
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I honestly think it's misogyny at work, here. These days, women are told they can be anything they want to be. It almost seems like the price we pay for this "generosity" is that the beauty standard is changed to something so impossible, that we'd have to practically kill ourselves to live up to it. We still have to please. They're just making it harder because we've been "given" more freedom these days. So I guess this is how we have to earn it.
That probably makes no sense. I still have a fever, and I had a horrible dream about being tortured last night. So my brain don't work so good.
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