Realistic Women? a Rant by joddess (Nadia Jee) I'm not a waif, I'm not a fat chick, I'm just an average size 10. Does that make me abnormal? According to the media it does, they don't like the happy medium you see... If there's anything that really annoys me, it would have to be the apparent trend towards using the "realistic" woman for the model. There is nothing realistic about a size 20 model. Let's face it boys and girls, people don't want to see clothes modelled on models who can actually eat as much and they like and get paid for it The general public wants to see the clothes modelled on skinny, pretty models so the clothes actually fit and don't happen to bulge and stretch all over the place. We justyify their exorbitant pay checks with the simple fact that have to survive on 10 calories a day, or suffer from at least one eating disorder and their ability to still say to the media "I eat like a horse! I love hamburgers and french fries so much, I have it for breakfast, lunch and tea! I just eat chocolate all the time!" There's nothing really attractive about having your "dkny" or "ck" logo being stretched out of proportion. If we wanted to see "realistic" women modelling them, we wouldn't have to be paying people $10 000 to get out of bed. We'd simply be getting Aunty Norma and her friends to be modelling clothes for us inbetween their lawn bowls and tupperware parties. But the worst thing is, that it is really just a fad. The "fashion" industry has decided that fat chicks are going to be this year's flavour. Just like it's had the previous fads of the waif, the black models, the shaved eyebrow models and so on. For example, take Sophie Dahl. It's impossible to see any article regarding Sophie without using the words/phrases "realistic woman", "what a dahling!", "real woman", "curves and all", "volumptous", "you go girl" and "doing modelling her way" attached to it. However, despite all of this, the very next page of the magazine, they're back to using the standard size 8, +175cm tall model. Despite all the media rah rahing about how great Sophie is, do a search for her on the Internet, you return 4 matches. 2 of those don't work, one's irrelevant and the other does the whole "She's a Dahling!" routine while attaching a photo of a size 8, blonde, tall and blue eyed model. This is another "realistic woman" ploy that really annoys me. This is "Rubenesque Ruby", the Body Shop's latest say in the realistic woman business. How many people do you know that look anything like Rubenesque Ruby? Somehow, I doubt that having a computer get a Barbie sprite and giving her epic thighs and bosoms hardly qualifies as a realistic woman. Yeah, there's "3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do" but what you're neglecting here is that there's also 3 billion and 8 women in the world who don't look like Rubenesque Ruby. It looks like the supermodels are more realistic than this grotesquely proportioned computer sprite. Good one Body Shop. "Yeah yeah, cut the crap", I hear the politically correct section of the community cry. They're not fat chicks, they're realistic. Actually, I believe what you're trying to say is that they're "all women" and "volumptuous". Now excuse me whilst i skip past all these volumptuous, real models and gorge myself on triple cheeseburgers so I can emulate the media which is my soul purpose for living. Related Web Site Created on Mon, 15 Dec 1997 and last modified on Fri, 23 Jan 1998.

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