Everyone seen the new ads for Dove soap yet? It features a handful of women who actually have flesh on their bones. Wow, whatta concept! And then I read this...
...Many men looked at the Dove ads and apparently went "blech." Guys chatting on BART or the Net saw "chunky" women, fatties in their tighty whities...
...and my good mood went down in flames.
Now, this is NOT by ANY means a "I Hate All Men" vent...but I do hate some of them. You know, the ones who seem to prefer Gift Wrap to actual gifts, rinds to fruit, pick your own metaphor. Men who undeservedly believe that they are gods gift to everything.
These girls are not fat. They're average. Even healthy. So why the hell do so many men seem to prefer girls who look like famine victims and who would probably snap in half if someone were to jump their brittle bones? Why do men want to feel a sharp, bony body rather than a soft, pillowy one? And where the fuck do these men get off passing such harsh judgements and hurtful words? My guess is that the men who uttered the highly thoughtful dismissala of "Blech" are men who have no asses, are balding, have beer guts, smell like week old farts, have saggy balls and shrimpy dicks and/or don't bathe as often as they should.
My ex boyfriend was like that - towards the end of our relationship, he rarely bathed, he stunk like sweat and shit, he weighed close to 200 pounds and looked for all the world like Baby Fucking Huey. Why did I date him? Because, in the beginning, he was nice. He was funny. We had a lot in common. He put on his best face for me, but it didn't last long. Then came the day when he started making jokes about "fat chicks" and told me he'd dump me if I gained too much weight. For the record, I am 5 foot 4 and my weight has never gone over 150. So who the fuck does he think he is? I can tell you who he is now...my fucking ex. I'd rather be fat and alone than skinny and dating an arrogant fuckstick like that.
And that goes for every other man who thinks that the Dove girls are "fat, chunky, blechy, ugly girls" who deserve to be ridiculed. Fuck you assholes. Take a good long look in the mutherfucking mirror before you lob insults at anyone else, especially a woman. You can be the most handsome magazine model in the world with washboard abs and huge pectoral muscles, and you'll still be ugly as fuck to me if you say such rotten, dishonorable things...because you are a narrow minded, shallow, appearance obsessed hollowed out Nothing Man who I wouldn't be caught dead with. You are not a man. You are a coward.
Youth and beauty don't last. We all get old and die. Why waste the time we have trying to perfect the body that's going to eventually get wrinkles, wither, bloat, shrink, develop liver spots, etc. despite our best efforts to remain immortal and flawless? Try investing in a personality and some intelligence instead - those things don't age or die.
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...Many men looked at the Dove ads and apparently went "blech." Guys chatting on BART or the Net saw "chunky" women, fatties in their tighty whities...
...and my good mood went down in flames.
Now, this is NOT by ANY means a "I Hate All Men" vent...but I do hate some of them. You know, the ones who seem to prefer Gift Wrap to actual gifts, rinds to fruit, pick your own metaphor. Men who undeservedly believe that they are gods gift to everything.
These girls are not fat. They're average. Even healthy. So why the hell do so many men seem to prefer girls who look like famine victims and who would probably snap in half if someone were to jump their brittle bones? Why do men want to feel a sharp, bony body rather than a soft, pillowy one? And where the fuck do these men get off passing such harsh judgements and hurtful words? My guess is that the men who uttered the highly thoughtful dismissala of "Blech" are men who have no asses, are balding, have beer guts, smell like week old farts, have saggy balls and shrimpy dicks and/or don't bathe as often as they should.
My ex boyfriend was like that - towards the end of our relationship, he rarely bathed, he stunk like sweat and shit, he weighed close to 200 pounds and looked for all the world like Baby Fucking Huey. Why did I date him? Because, in the beginning, he was nice. He was funny. We had a lot in common. He put on his best face for me, but it didn't last long. Then came the day when he started making jokes about "fat chicks" and told me he'd dump me if I gained too much weight. For the record, I am 5 foot 4 and my weight has never gone over 150. So who the fuck does he think he is? I can tell you who he is now...my fucking ex. I'd rather be fat and alone than skinny and dating an arrogant fuckstick like that.
And that goes for every other man who thinks that the Dove girls are "fat, chunky, blechy, ugly girls" who deserve to be ridiculed. Fuck you assholes. Take a good long look in the mutherfucking mirror before you lob insults at anyone else, especially a woman. You can be the most handsome magazine model in the world with washboard abs and huge pectoral muscles, and you'll still be ugly as fuck to me if you say such rotten, dishonorable things...because you are a narrow minded, shallow, appearance obsessed hollowed out Nothing Man who I wouldn't be caught dead with. You are not a man. You are a coward.
Youth and beauty don't last. We all get old and die. Why waste the time we have trying to perfect the body that's going to eventually get wrinkles, wither, bloat, shrink, develop liver spots, etc. despite our best efforts to remain immortal and flawless? Try investing in a personality and some intelligence instead - those things don't age or die.
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I'm 5-9 and 200 lbs even. Yes, I have a huge belly that makes me look pregnant that is not prominent when I wear black. Yes, my arse makes me a size 22 pants. But you know summat? I'm a freakin' WOMAN, not a goddamn little toothpick that I can break in half.
No woman, in my opinion, should be so thin her ribs show. That is DISGUSTING, not attractive. Besides, one punch to those ribs and she crumples. Pssh. This goes to show all men want to feel like Big Man because they will only date someone who is thinner, frailer, etc. Why? Because they know if they ever become asshats and try anything, they can break her. Literally.
On, and only a scant percentage of women aged 16-40 are actually like that: skinny and skeletal. Most of the women are just "chunky" and "fat" - but you know, they're far healthier than they look. I'm fat too, yeah, but my thyroid JUST got fixed. I'm healthy again. At 200 lbs.
Fuck them. Fuck them right in the ear. Same with the men that have a problem with this.
I'd seriously like to see one of those breed of asshole turn around and rattle something off about fat women around their mother. I know, in my family at least, it'd end in nothing short of either being called on being a total dick, or someone'd get slapped.
I know I'm a source of constant eyeing when I go shopping for clothes and such, as I'm 5'5'' and weigh 195 pounds. Don't really look it, which is nifty. Just how my body type is. Once I start hitting the gym again to turn a good chunk of this to muscle, I'll be getting the other commentary and stares. You know. The "Oh my God. Is that a man or a woman? No woman should look like that! Oh, that's disgusting!" bullshit cause I'll have muscle.
Yep. Fuck 'em all.
Skinny is typically not attractive. I don't go for the stick figures with huge fake breasts. Even Amanda isn't über-skinny, and I like it that way.
Then....you look at their stats, and they're fucking fat. I mean FAT. Grotesquely obese. And ugly?! Oh lawsy. I got fed up with this crap a long time ago and now if they dare to speak to me, they get a really bitchy answer back.