Okay, so all women should be happy with their body types, right? Right. But have you ever noticed that no one is?
I don't mean necessarily that women always complain about their figures (stereotype, I know, but it's true in a vast majority of cases). That, of course, is additional proof, but I mean that they devalue other body types in order to feel better about their own. Think about it. My guess is, you're thinking of skinny girls who always make fun of larger girls. While this is true, it's comparatively rare to the reverse.
A movie came out a while ago, "Real Women Have Curves". Even if you've never seen it, the title basically says it all. But where does that leave the skinny girls? They are somehow lesser women, and thereby lesser people, simply because they were not given fuller figures, for better or for worse. You always hear men in the media discussing the fact that they prefer women who have more "meat" (for lack of a better term). This, of course, is a matter of personal opinion, but no one ever quotes a man saying that he prefers a skinny woman; that might be deemed offensive.
There's a war on thin women going on, and it's entirely unfair. It's easy for people to make fun of these girls, calling them anorexic, skin and bones, and all the rest of it. No one calls bigger women fat anymore, because that's offensive. And it is -- but so are those other terms. Skinny girls are dehumanized in our culture; they aren't even considered to have feelings, apparently. (Most) thin girls can't help their figure any more than (most) larger girls can help theirs. It's really disgraceful that only large women get to be happy with their bodies; skinny women have to gain weight if they want to be normal.
In ads and promos for "real beauty" and the like, one will find that it's only more curvy women who are represented in this: you can't see the ribcage of a single one. Look if you disbelieve me, it's sadly true.
In a world of self esteem uber alis, one would think that everyone would get equal treatment in the boosting of it. Not so, apparently. It's not rare at all to hear someone telling a thin girl, "I can see your ribs, that's disgusting! Gain some weight!" No one EVER says, "Hey, your fat rolls are pretty nasty, you should go on a diet!" Neither of those things are kind or funny. And yet, people seem to think that the former is both those things.
I'm not so sure about how this works for men, because I'm not a man, but I think I can fairly safely say that the same rules apply as far as muscular versus more wiry builds on their part.
My point, then, is: shouldn't all women get to feel beautiful, even the ones who make everyone apparently feel sick, since you can see some of their bones? I'm not saying that curvy women are lesser in any way. I'm just saying that they are equal, and should be treated as such. Again, there are some areas of this that are questions of personal taste; that still leaves the fact that no one seems to want skinny women to exist anymore.
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