The Woman

[_just me]

I am confused. How did my statement that I prefer the Marilyn Monroe body type to the ultra skinny fashion model types, a type which I feel is an unhealthy ideal promoted by the fashion industry, turn into a personal attack on Just Me? An individual that I hold in the highest esteem.

Anyways, again I am sorry for my faux pas.

It was actually an attack on all thin women.

You said "too skinny." The only way a woman or man is "too skinny" is if she has an eating disorder or illness that is causing unhealthy weight loss.

I look like those women you said are "too skinny." I have had many ugly things said to me about my weight over the years. I am well aware that I am thin and I am well aware that I don't have big boobs. I know not everyone will find me sexually appealing.

There are meme's out there that say "Real women have curves." Well, pardon me, but I am a "real woman" even though I may not be voluptuous.

When you say women should have curves that implies that something is wrong with women who are not curvy. Why do you think the breast implant business is booming? Because women are well aware that big breasts are viewed as sexier and more appealing than small breasts.

I was born this way and short of cosmetic surgery this is my body. I eat healthy, take my vitamins and exercise.

Marilyn was a size 8. She was pretty damn thin, she just happened to have boobs and booty. Like J-Lo. MR had a nose job. So even as gorgeous as she was it seems she had some body image issues, too.

Steelhead, I still love you!

[_SteelHead]

JM, having witnesses a couple of your pics you are a elegant, healthy, vibrant specimen of womanhood.

At the desire of not making further gaffs I will now shut my yapper.

[_just me]

Wow. Just found out that Marilyn Monroe had a thinner waist than me. In fact, she was about the same weight as me. Today she would probably be a size 0/2 and need to have things tailored to fit her tiny waist and larger chest.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... ize-12-16/

[_SteelHead]

22 inches? I did not know that.

I am yapping again. My wife, who I consider extremely beautiful, has a 26 inch waist, a large bumbum and larger thighs. While she is outside of the American ideal of body shape, she is very much in the ideal zone for her native Brazil. Brazil having a very different ideal body type than America.

No disrespect was meant to skinny girls, I was merely noting a: my personal preference and b: that the ideal body as espoused by our fashion industry can be unhealthy. I am at times not the most politic when expressing my self, possessing the subtly and manners of a water buffalo.

Most of the time I don't care if I offend, some times I do care.

[_Bret Ripley]

I am at times not the most politic when expressing my self, possessing the subtly and manners of a water buffalo.

Sir, a representative from Water Buffalo Admirers International is holding on line two -- shall I tell her you're in a meeting?

[_cafe crema]

I look like those women you said are "too skinny." I have had many ugly things said to me about my weight over the years. I am well aware that I am thin and I am well aware that I don't have big boobs. I know not everyone will find me sexually appealing.

I know what you mean about ugly things, I've heard a lot over the years too. "The schools' got walls and walls are flat" my cousin and I used to hear that all the time. But I think what never failed to surprise me was how people just couldn't help but comment on what I ate or didn't eat. Total strangers, waitstaff, near by diners all just had to tell me what I needed to eat and drink because I was too skinny. It's still rather tedious.

[_zeezrom]

for the party

[_zeezrom]

OMG

[_just me]

OMG

Hate the shoes. Like the rest of it.

[_zeezrom]