"You're only beautiful if you look like her" rant on the media

This is a bit of a rant on the media.

It's not thin girls who say "you're only beautiful if you look like me" it's the media that says "you're only beautiful if you look like her".

I used to want to be thin, soooo badly I wanted to be thin. Later when I didn't so much care how I look, and began to care more about kicking ass and being 'strong woman', thinness was no longer my goal but fitness was.

What I'm getting at here, is that if record labels or magazines or movie producers want sexy women, they should be putting sexy fit women. Maybe having fit women rather than thin women would encourage a healthier lifestyle. One could also argue that it could quite possibly encourage over-exercising, but that could be avoided as long as the general consumer understands that over-exercising hurts more than it helps.

I think that if the women in the Bowflex commercials were the types of women in the magazines and movies, a healthy/fit body rather than a skinny/thin body would be the main goal of young girls.

Seeing those Bowflex commercial women in place of Paris Hilton and other very skinny no-healthy-muscle women, would (in my opinion) encourage going to the gym and eating right rather than not eating or purging food (I'm using the extreme case as an example).

Any thoughts?

Fit is within more peoples' reach than super thin, making it a more realistic, and therefore achievable goal.  I'm behind you 100% with my even-my-skeleton-isn't-thin self.

More realistic for sure. And nowhere near as dangerously unhealthy! I myself think that women with some muscle are more attractive than women who are just thin. Maybe it's just because they look so....healthy and strong.

I think big asses are more in style than rail thin. (J. Lo, Kim Kardashian)

Thank God! I was genetically gifted for this trend.

Are big butts in? AWESOME!

They are! It's a trend that has been building ever since the sir mix a lot Baby Got Back days and has reached fever Pitch in the last 5 years.

It's more a what is considered sexy thing though. hmmm

stilll

TURN AROUND

STICK IT OUT

EVE CHAIRMAN MEOW HAS TO SHOUT

I do think the OP has an excellent point worth discussing about responsibility in advertising. They have even gone so far as to ban models under a certain weight from the Paris run ways in an effort to set an example.

My thought is it's up to us what we consume, the can only sell us what we are willing to buy. That is a tough concept for young girls though. 

 

I want a bigger booty :( but that would mean not working my butt muscles as much. it would look weird if i had a big booty and tightness everywhere else lol! out of porportion for me lol. maybe ill just work my butt muscles harder! haha :P

The answer is definetly more butt exercises, otherwise you will burn the fat and have 0 hinder left!

the big butt thing is only a trend for some people. in my circle, in most circles for black people, big behinds have always been a desirable physical feature. i like my big butt (though it wouldn't hurt to be a little less big!)

My rant is AGE. Do we stop being beautiful when we stop looking like we're 23? Can't I be pretty and desirable at 39? Am I no longer pleasing to look at because I have some fine lines and wrinkles?

Of course I can, but it still irks me! What irks me more are beautiful young starlets being paired up with guys my age in movies, which happens to be all the damn time. I don't want to "age gracefully"; of course I want to look good. I also want to look good without being knifed up and airbrushed.

This is why I don't watch a lot of TV targeted to my demographic. Gag.