Unrealistic View of Women

Having a daughter and two granddaughters of my own, I have to say it makes me a little angry when I look at what is considered beautiful for a woman today and then when they try and correct it to the way women really look they go overboard.  Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with skinny women but that’s not realistic. Women usually don’t look like they weigh 300 pounds either. If you’re like me, I have struggled with my weight most of my life and so has my wife.  She was no skinny minnie as she said when I met her and I never looked for someone like that.  I have always hoped that I was attracted to beauty but it was their personality and their soul that I treasured most.  I have dated both what I would call skinny and what I would call curvaceous women.  I once laughed when I was watching Dancing with the Stars and Sherry from The View made the statement that” if you go thick you’ll never go back”.  I honestly think that there’s too much emphasis put on girls to be a skinny size all of their life, that’s just not going to happen. The emphasis really should be on being a good person. Some of us get smaller and some of us get larger. It’s usually never made any difference to me how I felt about someone because of their size.  Yes, size does matter in things like your health but that should not matter in getting a job, being accepted by your peers and especially in beauty contests, which brings me to the reason I wrote this post. It was something that I read about a Miss America or a Miss World or whatever she was a contestant in, that she wasn’t the typical beauty contestant.  I looked at her pictures and she is thin too and a size 4, so where do they come off saying that she weighed more than the typical contestant. What’d she weigh, two more pounds than the other contestants.  I’ve fussed about this long enough but I found a picture that I have to share with you. It’s of a doll, which is ridiculously skinny to start off with, but then they put a not so thin doll that went overboard next to her. I know this was not the makers of the dolls that did this

but can’t anyone get it right, not that a lot of us don’t look that way and not to say that that’s not beautiful too, it is.  I just don’t think that you can represent every body with two completely overboard ends of any spectrum, especially weight.  Take a look at these dolls and tell me if you don’t think that it’s going overboard either way.  My thought is that women really fit somewhere in between these two.  I wish they would make a doll that fits in that category so that young girls don’t go through life with the wrong expectations. All women are beautiful in their own way.