I hate seeing posts about skinny is in, or curvy is in. It's really stupid, because I think it confuses people. I'm not sure why, but people have like a mindset where you must think one or the other statement is correct. You can't choose both, or think that all body shapes or equally beautiful, just either or. I am sick of it!
As a skinny woman, I agree that the media shows a biased opinion of beauty by stating that thinner women are the ideal. At the moment though, the ideal woman will look like Beyonce, or Kim Kardashian. However, why should that equate to bashing skinny people. The whole "women have curves," and all that other mantra that people spew to increase their confidence isn't making the media change their minds.
You see, we need to tell everyone that they are beautiful, whether their bodies look like a runway model or a pin up model. EVERYONE is beautiful! Stop thinking that a really skinny girl is anorexic, when an overweight girl standing next to her probably just flushed her vomit down in the toilet.
There are truths that even the eye can't see, and instead of us women bashing each other, we should all be loving one another ( I would love to see the day that happens).We should tell each other that they're beautiful. Not smirking and saying, "Eeew, she needs to eat!" , or "Wow! Someone needs to lay off those fries!".
That is when the war against women will stop in the media! We need to make our own rules of beauty, and it won't be a skinny vs. curvy rule. It would be everyone is included rule!
I hope I make sense, it's just something I have been thinking about lately. I think we as people make things more complicated than it really should be. We give media too much power, and it sucks! There needs to be diversity in the images that is presented to us. However, don't expect anyone else to do it, we have to do it ourselves.
