I'm 17, and I'm up in the club with no ID

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Further excursions into FREAKY SINUOUSNESS from Natasha on her new video...

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've often wondered whether the "real women are squashy and have curves" trope is as harmful as any societal pressure to be thin but every time I've said this out loud to a girl they've told me to shut up. But I'm sure this condemnation of waifs, even really unhealthily thin ones, can't be good! And it happens a lot, maybe not as much as thin girls appear on magazine covers, but it does seem that when people want to boost curvy girls like Serena Williams or actual fat girls like Beth Ditto - who I love but surely she is as unhealthily fat as Nicole Richie was unhealthily thin? and she is also now being held up as a role model based partly on her size? - they can't do it without saying things along the lines of

- the only men who want waifish women are gay fashion designers, real men want women with curves not sticks with not ass/tits like Maria Sharapova
- Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan are destroying one or more of the self-confidence of women worldwide, the upbringing of young girls, and SOCIETY ITSELF, and they should be DESTROYED

I kind of think societal pressure to be an acceptable size is a good thing, where an acceptable size = one which is healthy-ish give or take a few pounds either size, and one that the individual is happy with. This includes pudginess and waifishness but not obesity or anorexia.