My rant

  Ok, I know this has been a long time coming but whatever. I wanted to express this right as it is in my mind. It pisses me off to no end because of the crap it forces people to go through when they have no reason to not be happy as they are. I've seen it make countless people unhappy and most importantly it has made my wife unhappy which is why it pisses me off.

  The thing I'm talking about is people's self image, more specifically the image women have of themselves. It is kind of obvious that the prevailing image presented in the media is for women to be thin. This is bullshit. Women don't have to be thin to be attractive. Too often images of women are of people who have no figure at all. They are simply two straight lines down the sides, no hips, no curves, nothing at all to give the aura of being female at all. This more than often is achieved via simply being as thin as possible and yet this destroys any semblance of their true figure and shape.

  Now I know there are variations in body shape. You could read the wikipedia article about it for more details but even within the basic shapes there are no straight lines. Being able to pass as a man body shape wise does not make a woman attractive. Having no hips is simply not a nice shape despite how often you see it.

  I've posted pictures of people I consider attractive on this blog and every one of them actually has some form of shape. Yes some of them are thin but given the prevalence of that within the range of people I was selecting from (TV, film people) I had to work with that a bit. All of them have a nice shape in one way of another. I could select more to prove my point. A better way would be to point out something that struck me when I watched a TV program that was around for a couple of seasons.

  This show is Dollhouse, a show I enjoyed for when it actually told a story despite being buggered about by the television network in how the stories on the show should go. The whole point about it was to have a collection of "attractive" people who could be programmed to be whomever the clients of the dollhouse wanted them to be. To be honest watching the program I didn't see a single "doll" (I'm talking about female here, male is not my area of expertise :-) ) that I considered to have an attractive body. It wasn't until they introduced someone "normal" (who in fact ended up being a doll) that there was even the chance I would consider them nice to look at. The funny thing about this "normal" person? They were within the normal weight range for their height, had curves on their figure and didn't look like an anorexic stick insect. (In case you are wondering who I'm talking about here it is Miracle Laurie which is a silly name but so what).

  Hopefully I'm starting to get my point across here. Women end up convinced that what they need to do to be attractive is to be this tiny thin person and not the beautiful person they already are. They force themselves through all sorts of torture and stupid stuff just to conform to a "standard" that is totally ridiculous and unobtainable. I could go more on about how it is actually unhealthy to try to be thin, the fact that models have actually died from malnutrition trying to keep their "shape" (models being an even more extreme form of being thin) is a scary thing. People would rather virtually starve themselves to death than be considered "unattractive", this is not something that should exist.

  Please also consider as I write this I'm not damning plastic surgery. There are many good reasons for it from correcting something that simply can't be done naturally to enhancing other areas of the body. There is no reason not to have it if that is what the person wishes, I'm simply expressing what my feelings are on how women perceive themselves and what I personally consider attractive. If they want to have plastic surgery to change how their body is I have no problem with that. My wife has had some surgery to correct a problem and even though watching her there in recovery afterwards was one of the most harrowing things I've done (I literally almost passed out from seeing my wife in so much pain) I could not deny her need to have the surgery.

  I know not everybody is going to agree with me on this but I'm writing this down so people understand how much it pisses me off. I don't get angry much if at all really but this is one topic that really raises my hackles (other subjects being ignorant people and the supposed "right to life" movement in the USA trying to outlaw abortions but they are subject for another day).

  There is more I want to say on this subject and I want to illustrate it a bit more with some visual examples but I think I have expressed the feelings on my mind with what I have written here. I also want my wife to know that with the amazing figure she has right now she is the most beautiful sexy women ever.