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I should be used to this by now, after almost a year's tenure on this blog, but arrrgh! I mean, personally, I'm not a fan of the super-buff female bodybuilder look (and really not a fan of Sarah Jessica Parker, but that pertains more to my bitterness that she married Ferris Bueller, even though he now looks like a creepy manchild) but hell, I still admire the fact that Madonna can totes kick my ass if she wanted. And the accusations in this article! For shame, starlets, you've ruined your looks with your vanity! Your addiction to Pilates! Your attempt to adhere to an ever-changing expectation of attraction! Can someone tell me what the perfect female beauty ideal is supposed to be? You can't be too thin. You can't be too thick. You should be fit but you shouldn't look like you can actually lift anything heavy. Your boobs must be neither too big nor too small. Your face must be perfectly symmetrical and have lips that are plump but not too plump. Where is this mythical creature? Does she even exist? What percentage of the population is able to meet all of these criteria and, most importantly, for how long can a single person sustain it? And if I, a 36-year-old with a pretty jaded view of the media, can't figure this out, how can we really expect a 12-year-old girl to deal? 6 CommentsLeave a comment |
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I rarely trust photos of celebrities. They always publish the most unflattering ones, even if they don't really look like that.
Honestly, the only way I've found to do it just not to ignore large sections of the media. I can't even enjoy fashion/gossip magazines as airplane reading anymore, partially because of the fucked-up body image shit and partially because of the stultifying repetitiveness. I mean, there are only so many ways to do crunches or wash one's hair, you know?
I find this appalling! Really, if you're super thin and have any muscles at all, the muscles and veins will look quite prominent, because you don't have any fat to hide them under! Although I'm not up on my feminist theory these days, it just seems to me that women are being placed into an impossible paradox: we have to be super thin to be acceptable, but we must only starve ourselves to do so, because if we exercise to maintain impossibly thin figures, we'll get muscles and those are bad too!! It seems that we have to weak and sickly to be considered feminine, and we can't show any signs of efficacy or strength (mental or physical) or we are no longer feminine enough! Wow-didn't see that rant coming... funny how they sneak up on you sometimes...
thank you psychsarah for saying both what I wanted to say(these women aren't super muscular. they're underfat, with normal muscles) and adding a more insightful feminist commentary than I immediately thought of. You rock.
I've decided that I am the perfect ideal of female beauty and you should all aspire to be me! I HAVE SPOKEN! *nods and starts singing "I'm Too Sexy"*
"Can someone tell me what the perfect female beauty ideal is supposed to be?"
Um......be thin, but don’t have such craze low body fat that your veins show like craze. I mean it’s pretty clear the problem here isn’t how much they workout, it’s that they don’t have enough body fat.