Comments on: Plus-Size Issue And Real Women http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/03/plus-size-issue-and-real-women/ Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: runwayrevolution http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/03/plus-size-issue-and-real-women/comment-page-1/#comment-3854 runwayrevolution Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:40:15 +0000 http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/?p=7254#comment-3854 This website has been around for a long time, and it often has some really good stuff on it, but I find it a bit hard going at times. The people on it like to talk about how some plus-size models aren't 'big enough' or shouldn't look a certain way (like have visible collarbones or skinny legs). I understand that people have their own ideas about these things, but models are just workers doing a job, and if there is one lot of people (the fashion industry) saying they are too big, and another (size lobbyists) saying they aren't big enough, then how are they supposed to feel about themselves? Why can't people just see beauty where it lays, and not feel compelled to draw lines in the sand? I'd much rather visit a site that just shows pictures of beautiful, different sized women and lets me make up my own mind instead of trying to do it for me. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, no? This website has been around for a long time, and it often has some really good stuff on it, but I find it a bit hard going at times. The people on it like to talk about how some plus-size models aren’t ‘big enough’ or shouldn’t look a certain way (like have visible collarbones or skinny legs).

I understand that people have their own ideas about these things, but models are just workers doing a job, and if there is one lot of people (the fashion industry) saying they are too big, and another (size lobbyists) saying they aren’t big enough, then how are they supposed to feel about themselves? Why can’t people just see beauty where it lays, and not feel compelled to draw lines in the sand?

I’d much rather visit a site that just shows pictures of beautiful, different sized women and lets me make up my own mind instead of trying to do it for me. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, no?

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