More feminist bullshit!

There's a silly political roundtable show on PBS. I chance to catch it once in a while after watching the McLaughlin group. There is a hideous manbeast hostess, all died black hair, who completely disproves the idea that all Italian women are beautiful. They have her all got up in makeup to try and soften her edges. Anyway, it is a feminist show and Eleanor Holmes Norton attends, talking of issues she knows nothing of, like marriage and childbirth.

This week there was talk of the Milan Fashion Week festivities and the new rules set up by some European socialist board, saying that models that are "underweight" by a certain percentage shall not be allowed to walk the runways. 6 models were determined underweight and disqualified from modeling. The reasoning being, that young ladies are given over to anorexia and bulemia and made that way by the evil fashionistas. The reporters and social commenters mostly agreed, one radical Hispanic journalista saying, "I don't want my 2 daughters to feel pressure to fit a certain body image." Ms Holmes Norton went on in the same vein, though she seems naturally slim. Even the conservative commenter agreed. The one dissenter was a woman I am not familiar with who is the head of a woman's organization. She is a beautiful Black woman, an ex model. She said that she did not feel it appropriate for any government to tell people that they could not work because of their weight. Hurrah, hurrah!

Miss C rides public transit and sees scads and scads of teenage girls and she is here to tell you that far from suffering the dreaded disorder of anorexia, they are suffering from eattoomuchia. They are rarely ever without a McDonald's bag in hand, chomping away at apple pies and fries, after which the bag ends up on the ground. They proudly flaunt their "muffin tops," (the roll, or rolls, of fat that bulge over the low cut jeans of a girl who has not the body for low cut jeans) They constantly pull at their skin tight shirts that encase their Michelin Man like blubber and give them the appearance of overstuffed sausages. these young ladies are fat as seal puppies!The feminists can convince themselves that the problem with American teenagers is poor body image, but they can't convince me! These girls actually think they look good, but they are obese at the age of 15. This is the real problem with American girls.

Men do not choose beauty standards, women do. Men are usually happy to go along with the program. There are standards of beauty in every culture, some are surface, like sharpened teeth and lip plates, some have to do with body size or skin color. Every woman can not meet the standards. Often you hear Black women saying that they would be considered beautiful in Africa, but they can't know that for sure. In Africa all woman are not considered beautiful, Africans have standards as well. Africa is not a perfect world where every Black woman is considered beautiful. Surprise, surprise.

As for the fashion magazines being the cause of anorexia, I do not believe a bit of it. If the anorexics were interested in looking like a supermodel, they would stop dieting after they reached supermodel size. They do not. Anorexics are perhaps more influenced by reruns of Tales from the Crypt and are seeking to look like the Crypt Keeper.