Controversial plus sized article

[lerxt1990]

Id thought Id share this after a woman I know sent it to me. Its very interesting. I dont like the pressure society puts on young ladies to be so, so, so very skinny.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-...n-industry.html

[1 of the 7]

I agree on the need for diversity, and think that anyone who'd modeling should be in a healthy range for her/his figure. We need to promote health above all, because anything else in life falls apart very quickly without it.

[Earthshine Emmeline]

Beautiful. I do love the look of curvaceous women, I wish that the media would encourage them to be confident and sexy as they are, not try to fit another mold.

[HowItIs]

As a plus-size woman, I like this sentiment. I prefer Reubenesque, though

[danielmclark]

There needs to be a shift in mentality. Skinny isn't beautiful, big isn't beautiful, healthy is beautiful. If we can change the mentality to promoting health, we'll be on a better track. All of a sudden, the underweight waifs wouldn't be thought of goals and overweight women might not feel the need to shed 20 pounds. You can be healthy and still be packing a few extra pounds, after all.

 

As a guy, I'm just as turned off by stick-figure women as I am 300 pound women (and while I hope everyone here is rational, just in case anyone takes offense at that, I'll just remind the room that everyone has personal tastes and opinions about who they find attractive). There's a middle ground that I personally believe most men consider "normal", despite the stereotypes about us that say we only like skinny women with huge... tracts of land. And in that middle ground, you'll find healthy women of varying shapes and sizes.

Edited January 19, 2012 by danielmclark

[An Enemy Without]

QUOTE (danielmclark @ Jan 18 2012, 08:29 PM)

There needs to be a shift in mentality. Skinny isn't beautiful, big isn't beautiful, healthy is beautiful. If we can change the mentality to promoting health, we'll be on a better track. All of a sudden, the underweight waifs wouldn't be thought of goals and overweight women might not feel the need to shed 20 pounds. You can be healthy and still be packing a few extra pounds, after all. As a guy, I'm just as turned off by stick-figure women as I am 300 pound women (and while I hope everyone here is rational, just in case anyone takes offense at that, I'll just remind the room that everyone has personal tastes and opinions about who they find attractive). There's a middle ground that I personally believe most men consider "normal", despite the stereotypes about us that say we only like skinny women with huge... tracts of land. And in that middle ground, you'll find healthy women of varying shapes and sizes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[HowItIs]

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/internet%20stuff/smilies/vrav2.gif

 

to both of you!

[NobodysHeroine]

QUOTE (danielmclark @ Jan 18 2012, 09:29 PM)

There needs to be a shift in mentality. Skinny isn't beautiful, big isn't beautiful, healthy is beautiful. If we can change the mentality to promoting health, we'll be on a better track. All of a sudden, the underweight waifs wouldn't be thought of goals and overweight women might not feel the need to shed 20 pounds. You can be healthy and still be packing a few extra pounds, after all. As a guy, I'm just as turned off by stick-figure women as I am 300 pound women (and while I hope everyone here is rational, just in case anyone takes offense at that, I'll just remind the room that everyone has personal tastes and opinions about who they find attractive). There's a middle ground that I personally believe most men consider "normal", despite the stereotypes about us that say we only like skinny women with huge... tracts of land. And in that middle ground, you'll find healthy women of varying shapes and sizes.

Yeah, what he said.

 

You read my mind, Daniel. I agree 100%. To me, all women are beautiful; beauty is in the eye of the beholder and comes in many forms. Healthy is beautiful, and we should be promoting genuine health instead of extreme forms of "beauty." Society needs to snap out of it.

 

And I loved the Monty Python reference.