Real Women!

Just a quick note to say, I saw this today and it made me :D

http://roflrazzi.com/2009/09/02/celebrity-pic tures-sherman-mabius-real-men/

The guy from Ugly Betty has a normal and may I say very pretty wife! Yay.

A great ad for real women everywhere!  They look happy, healthy and in love :D

Good for them.

So a woman who is very skinny, is not real?

Original Post by turnertower:

 They look happy, healthy and in love :D

Good for them.

 

 

So do they: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/20 09/04/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-400a072307.jpg

I think it was moreso an emphasis on you don't have to be a size 0 to be happy, healthy and in love.

As far as the "real" and fake This is moreso talking about the images we see in magazines/billboards, because they don't really like like that, they photoshop the hell out of these women and i'm not talking about removing a zit, but shrinking their waistline, moving their eyes I mean it's quite ridiculous lol

Hear hear Amayou82 !

the 'real women' quote was the headline on that website, not my ideal choice of words.

...but that said...I shall ignore the skinny comment because I don't want to descend into a skinny related body image thread.

Healthy glowing curvy girls rock - that was my point. 

Original Post by synergy317:

So a woman who is very skinny, is not real?

Thin women are as real as fat women.  Short women are as real as tall women.  Old women are as real as young women.  Pretty women are as real as ugly women. 

Trouble is that if a woman has the bad luck to be on the wrong side of any of these parameters (and there are a lot more) she will quckly find that she is not represented anywhere outside of her immediate environment, workplace and family.   Someone 18 years old, plump and short will not find people who look like her in a magazine or in a movie & they will not walk onto the TV screen or down a catwalk.  Neither will someone tall, skinny and over 60.  Despite being completely normal, she is constantly sold the idea that she is unusual in some way

But there are exceptions.   The Dove brand launched a wonderfully obvious 'Campaign for Real Beauty' a few years ago that traded on the simple concept that all of us are real and all of us are beautiful in our own way.... Wrinkle cream advertised by people who actually had wrinkles!!!   Models used in adverts that had flawed skin, grey hair or saddlebags.   And pointing out that 'anti-ageing' was a discriminatory term in itself.... so they renamed their products 'pro-ageing'.   I love the campaign and only wish it could be extended to other areas 

But there are exceptions.   The Dove brand launched a wonderfully obvious 'Campaign for Real Beauty' a few years ago that traded on the simple concept that all of us are real and all of us are beautiful in our own way.... Wrinkle cream advertised by people who actually had wrinkles!!!   Models used in adverts that had flawed skin, grey hair or saddlebags.   And pointing out that 'anti-ageing' was a discriminatory term in itself.... so they renamed their products 'pro-ageing'.   I love the campaign and only wish it could be extended to other areas 

 I love the Dove real beauty campaign too!  I think it was a wonderful idea on their part, and a smart marketing move.  I'm more likely to buy Dove brands than any other simply because of it.  (I'm also a self-proclaimed slave to marketing!)

Original Post by synergy317:

So a woman who is very skinny, is not real?

 No, she is not real.  You heard it here first.

Once she is married she will reveal her true (padded) self.  ;)

Fun fact: Unilever is Dove and AXE....   Think about the AXE commericals for a sex... I mean sec.  ;) 

Considering real women are the majority of the planet I would assume that more of these guys do actually have real women as their partners, we probably just don't see them because they shun the spotlight due to the inherent nastiness of comments from magazines and show biz types. lol

Original Post by turnertower:

Healthy glowing curvy girls rock - that was my point. 

 

I will never be curvy. I am shaped like a banana. Just because I'm not curvy doesn't mean I don't rock.

I think women of all sizes rock. Who cares if you're curvy, or very thin, or overweight? We are all beautiful in our own way. 

Okay, but if you're slender, the media already tells you you rock.  ALL healthy glowing girls (and women and boys and men) rock - but the curvy ones don't get told that as much.

It's a similar situation to encouraging girls that they can do math.  You're not saying that boys can't do math.  You're simply emphasizing that they can too.

Healthy glowing curvy girls rock TOO.

susiecue totally conveyed the point.

A good friend of mine is a size 2 & works part time for BCBG, well it’s only the plus girls that make the real women comments to her. She doesn’t get this hatred form even the 7 & 9’s.

I understand the whole media not representing us bit but in these instances that doesn’t apply.

She’s also told things like “you’re as skinny as a string bean do you eat”? And she said to one girl “wow your as big as a linebacker how much do you eat”? (after years of being insulted by virtual strangers she snapped).

She asks me why is it ok for thick women to comment on her weight if it’s considered taboo for a skinny woman to comment on a thick chic’s weight.

I told her being called skinny isn’t considered an insult, she says you should hear how they say it & the looks on their faces. Plus you have no idea what kinda of body image a person has of themselves & saying things like that doesn’t help. In other words she knows she’s skinny but can’t gain to save her life & is self conscious about it.

 Why do we feel the need to put someone down because we aren’t happy with ourselves?