Ladies, curves are where it's at

[alchemy]

You know, I don't know what all the ballyhoo and hubbub is about (yes, they're both words). I'm also not sure why the brainless talking heads in the media are making it out to be some big reveal or epiphany.

Men prefer curves.

Granted, not ALL men do, but I feel pretty safe is saying that MOST men do. I know I do.

Yet, this bit of information, that everyone has apparently known for a while now is being treated like somebody found the lost ark. Fucking Duh! Ladies, THIS is why men stand around baffled while you pace back and forth complaining about gaining 5 pounds...THIS is why guys resort to the old "deer-in-the-headlights" look when a woman with a sexy curvy body complains that she's too fat...THIS is why you wonder why guys delight in ticking your beautiful soft tummies whilst all you can think of is that they're "pinching your fat".

Want more evidence, fine. Betty Page and Marilyn Monroe are the two biggest sex symbols of the 20th century. ...and yes, they BOTH have natural, healthy, curvy bodies.

Case in point:

<img src="http://www.fresh99.com/images/bettie/bettie_16.jpg">

<img src="http://marilynmonroe.canalblog.com/mmosecoul104.jpg">

Anyway, I don't understand any of it. Since the 70's the film and fashion industry has been promoting this anorexic skinny version of a woman as the "ideal" to which all women need to aspire (which I think, simply as a concept, is bullshit anyway. Leave people alone!). It's all been a fabrication. It's not reality. It's not even close to reality.

Health and confidence are sexy...regardless of your natural body shape. (Be proud of it, it's YOURS!) Self-inflicted poor health and constant self-deprecation are not.

I guess what I'm trying to say ladies is:

Curves DO NOT make you unattractive

Curves DO NOT make you undesirable

Curves DO NOT make you inferior to skinny women

Curves ARE sexy

Curves DO make you attractive

Curves DO make you desirable.


So....enough already.

...this rant is done.

 

[Artoo]

What he said. Curvy ladies are beautiful.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Curves make a woman feminine.

But obesity is a serious health risk.

So yeah, go curves, but with moderation.

 

[kered]

I like girly curves!


Especially on women!!

 

[-Hari-]

Bravo sir, altho they still wont listen 🙂

 

[RobAce]

I agree 100% alchemy!!

Appreciate women for what they have, not what they lack.

That is my motto.

Rob

 

[JPie1]

curves, they are like little slides for your fingers! Yippee for curves

 

[slacker2114]

I find I have nothing to add to what alchemy said. He hit the nail on the head.

Lady curves ROCK!!!

 

[Musicroxmysox]

Epic rant.....go you!

The media is seriously special....

 

[KrazieDog]

I quit preaching it because most of the time they think it's horseshit, but clearly it's not. We're guys and we hear what other guys think when we get together, and that is said more often than not. And it is not to take away from people who are naturally petite, as women are just fucking beautiful. But yeah curvy ladies, quit listening to Cosmo and start listening to the fellas that count.

 

[Dave2112]

I completely agree, curves are what women are all about. But, to play devil's advocate, let's not pick one "side" or the other here. All women have a beauty that's their's alone. I remember speaking to someone quite awhile ago about women with curves being "real" women. Now, if I were a thin woman, I'd be wondering what's not "real" about me. Are thinner women artificial lifeforms or something?

That being said, I've always found it troubling that the media keeps pushing this ideal vision of female beauty...no curves and 0% body fat. As Alchemny cited, Marilyn and Bettie were among the most desireable women ever and were far from a size 1. Beauty is something that goes far beyond what you look like, people. There are a lot of heavy people (women and men) who are beautiful people, and many large-breasted model-types who are, in reality, very ugly people.

I say, don't base things on looks. Curves are hot.

 

[Sultrybrunette]

Want more evidence, fine. Betty Page and Marilyn Monroe are the two biggest sex symbols of the 20th century. ...and yes, they BOTH have natural, healthy, curvy bodies.

I would like to add another name to that list. Mae West. That lady was not skinny but boy her curves were well defined. She always dressed to make sure and show them off to the max and she had the tude to go with it. I loved that lady.

 

[Tortuga]

emmm *grumble* damnit John

 

[slacker2114]

emmm *grumble* damnit John

You hush, you hot, curvy little piece of sexiness!!

 

[chicago]

Speaking of Marilyn Monroe. She was a size 14. This was considered average back then, but it's considered "plus size" today. The majority of women in America are a size 14.

 

[Tortuga]

Okay okay lets get the record straight here....I know why John brought this up....*mumbles* Turd.

Okay I was talking to a girl that was somewhat attracted to me, we went to the same bar in my home town. So she was kind of stalking me out for a little bit at the bar, and found me on myspace. Her message was "Your so beautiful, do you get that often". That was the first message. So we talked here and there. Then I got this random message saying "how do you handle being chubby?" So I kind of had a confused dog head tilt going on, and just ignored it for a couple of days. Then she contacts me on YIM and this is how the conversation went last night:

sara: you like girls?
cassandra: yes
sara: good
sara: single?
cassandra: i'm in an relationship right now
sara: girl or guy?
cassandra: guy
sara: oh
cassandra: he....participate?
cassandra: what like a threesome?
sara: well yeah
cassandra: no
cassandra: I don't do threesomes, it isn't exactly safe, and that's how diseases spread.
sara: ok
sara: are u looking for a relationship?
cassandra johnson: not right now
cassandra: i'm kind of just trying to get my life back together, because i don't plan on living here for more than a year
sara: i see
sara: can i ask u something
cassandra johnson: yes
sara: how do u handle being chubby?
cassandra: i'm actually happy with my body
cassandra: i'm not obese
cassandra: and my shape is mainly in fault from my ethnicity because i'm half hispanic and wide hips run in the family genes
sara: you seem to be a fat girl
sara: no offense i like those
cassandra: yeah i'm curvy so what
sara: too much pizza lol
cassandra: uh no
cassandra: i eat actually very healthy and i really don't eat junk food at all
cassandra: i don't eat fast food or any of that crap either
cassandra: i'm curvy and i like it, it shows off my heritage
cassandra: i'd rather be curvy than a stick
cassandra: why are you so insistant to asking that question?
sara: just wondering
cassandra: do you ask all girls that?
sara: sorry, most girls i talk to arent overweight like u
sara: i wasnt trying to be an ass
cassandra: okay well you need to be a little more considerate about how you say things, because from what it sounds like you have a fat person phobia
cassandra: I don't consider myself fat, fat is like ridiculously huge, i think of myself as curvy, this is my shape, this is how i've always been shaped even way before i was smaller and not on birth control
sara: im not phobic
sara: i dont think i can be with u
cassandra: um well i wasn't planning on being with you so that makes us even
sara: right
cassandra: um okay
sara: u meet with people u dont wanna
sara: c'mon fat girl
sara: be for real
cassandra: what doesn't even make sense
cassandra: i can't be more real than i am right now
sara: ok then
sara: doesnt make sense
sara: whatever you say u fat curly haired freak
cassandra: okay whatever, your the freak and very immature, grow up
sara: haha ok
sara: fat bitch
sara: u know u were attracted to me but u cant live up
cassandra: i wasn't attracted to you one bit, i was just looking for a friend and someone to get to know. you are not all that sweetheart
sara: who are u trying to convince?
cassandra: nobody, because that is who you are, a nobody in F***ville
sara: you fat monsterous bitch
cassandra: wow you are so getting to me...seriously, i can not take this....get a life whore
sara: i have a life, i dont make myself puke lol [ This is the part where she really draws the line]
cassandra: yeah you prefer to be ugly white trash in F***ville [This is where I get ghettofab]
sara: me and my friends saw u up there, laughing at u
cassandra: like i care what you and your friends think
sara: yes you do sweety, dont act like that
sara: dont front now, you're a mess both mentally and physically
cassandra: don't "front"?...you can't be more trashy than that
sara: now be gone
cassandra: whatever bitch
sara: bye bye sweetheart
sara: you're done
sara: go
sara: by the way, you got any pie? i know you have some leftover pie

And from here on she just keeps going and I put her on ignore. I just kept going along because it was entertaining as hell, considering I was driving all day yesterday. So I needed something for amusement. She didn't get to me like she wanted, because I was gradually getting a cookie 2 minutes later.

 

[chicago]

Let me find this bitch. I suh-wear-ta-God. It's gonna be on like donkey kong.

 

[slacker2114]

Invite her to ride up here with you when you come up, babe. We'll dump her off on the south side of Reading where she can live out her life in her chosen profession of crazy crack-whore.

That is, after you and Skippy put the boots to her. 🙂

 

[Tortuga]

yeah it was pretty ridiculous and sadly catty. It doesn't bother me but I do wonder what the fuck triggered it.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Somewhere along the lines, society changed it's ideals for women. Women are expected to be beautiful and thin. Hollywood and magazines have shoved these ideals of beauty down the throats of impressionable young girls for years. The message has always been you must be thin to be beautiful, to be attractive, to be desirable.

The thing that should be preached is to be healthy, not to be thin. Healthy and thin don't mean the same thing.

 

[Sandrock74]

I love a woman with curves. Chicks who are too skinny tend to look like little boys and I'm just not into that.

 

[kered]

yeah it was pretty ridiculous and sadly catty. It doesn't bother me but I do wonder what the fuck triggered it.

Sara seems to be a very classless person. Funny how you were attractive to her until you said you were in a relationship and didn't want to be with her.

And it is said guys can only be assholes.

 

[Adam]

I agree 100% alchemy!!

Appreciate women for what they have, not what they lack.

That is my motto.

Rob

What Rob said. 🙂

 

[Capnmad]

yeah it was pretty ridiculous and sadly catty. It doesn't bother me but I do wonder what the fuck triggered it.

Some people take pleasure in trying to destroy others, think it's fun because they have nothing constructive or positive enough in their own lives to fill whatever gaping hole they have in themselves. She's totally disingenuous, looking to bait you from the start, trying to pull you in with the initial compliment and then destroy with everything else.

Happens a lot on the internet where people are separated from the repercussions of their actions and therefore feel they can act cruelly with impunity.

Rest assured, this girl probably has deep emotional problems herself and karma is already taking its toll on her -- this act was just a manifestation of it. ...which isn't to say she couldn't use some... ...vigorous physical personality readjustment. People need to know there are repercussions for their actions, as otherwise unfulfilled and unchecked, they continue and worsen.

But anyway, don't take any of that bullshit personally. The girl's got serious issues. And when I have to say something like that, I've found it means that the consensus among other people is that "she's a psychotic fucking bitch". So feel free to use those terms interchangeably.

Finally, and not that my opinion should have any bearing, but I agree wholeheartedly with Alchemy that curves are wonderful, but I've told you as much before. And curves are fun to draw when I've got time. 🙂

You take care, and give a call any time, babe. You are missed.

 

[sasaxrah]

sara

Well she spells her name incorrectly... what do you expect? 😛

I kid... there are definitely some crazy girls out there!

And also, it's very nice to read this thread.
-saraH