Things that suck
In the spirit of a emulating one of my friends (and the comments posted to her entry), I present you with a list of things that suck:
-Women who cut their beautiful, long hair short.
-Women who don't have perfectly shaped eyes.
-Women who don't fit into a size 2 or smaller dress.
-Women who don't wear high heels all day long.
-Women who don't wear the correct shade of lipstick.
-Women who don't wear lipstick.
-Women who don't wear eyeshadow.
-Women who wear colors that clash.
-Women without trust funds.
-Women who don't have the perfect rear end.
-Women who don't have the perfect front end.
-Women who don't smile enough.
-Women who don't look like the models on the magazine covers.
-Holding an entire gender to unrealistic standards of beauty and acceptability only broadly attainable by a miniscule fraction of that half of the species instead of admitting that beauty can be found in people with wildly different characteristics.
Perhaps there's something to be said for at least one of these things sucking.
-Women who cut their beautiful, long hair short.
-Women who don't have perfectly shaped eyes.
-Women who don't fit into a size 2 or smaller dress.
-Women who don't wear high heels all day long.
-Women who don't wear the correct shade of lipstick.
-Women who don't wear lipstick.
-Women who don't wear eyeshadow.
-Women who wear colors that clash.
-Women without trust funds.
-Women who don't have the perfect rear end.
-Women who don't have the perfect front end.
-Women who don't smile enough.
-Women who don't look like the models on the magazine covers.
-Holding an entire gender to unrealistic standards of beauty and acceptability only broadly attainable by a miniscule fraction of that half of the species instead of admitting that beauty can be found in people with wildly different characteristics.
Perhaps there's something to be said for at least one of these things sucking.
posted by The Academian | 4:11 PM
6 Comments:
I agree. Especially about the lipstick. Women who don't wear lipstick are bound to be miserable spinsters who have neither a husband nor summer employment.
I would wear high heels more often but they make me fall down.
p.s. Let's not mistake personal preferences for something more than they're worth.
"When I look, really look, at the people I see every day on the street, I see a jungle of bodies, a community of women and men growing every which way like lush plants, growing tall and short and slender and round, hairy and hairless, dark and pale and soft and hard and glorious. Do I look around at the multitudes and think all these people--all these people who are like me and not like me, who are various and different--are not loved or loveable? Lately, everyone's body interests me, every body is desirable in some way. I see how muscles and skin shift with movement; I sense a cornucopia of flesh in the world. In the midst of it I am a little capacious and unruly."
I'm not trying to suggest that there is something wrong about stating personal preferences. Far from it, in fact.
There is a fine line between stating that a characteristic is attractive to an individual and saying that a characteristic is ugly, though. Saying that I have a secret crush on Sasha Cohen (when she actually has a few curves) can be written off. Saying that all women who don't look like Sasha Cohen are ugly, however, is to take things a bit further afield.
Yeah, but would you love Sasha if she had a mustache?
That would depend on whether the moustache in any way interfered with how independent, sassy, saucy,and spunky she seems to be.
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