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Originally Posted by highthief
To be frank, I find your characterization of people who are slim/athletic to be highly objectionable and find this reverse discrimination as childish as anything you describe in the movie theatre.
I do not find it amusing, enlightening, or anything but frustrating to hear that women who happen to have a genetic inclination towards being slim or who actually don't sit around eating crates of Doritos of an evening and take care of themselves are "genetic freaks".
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Fair enough...my bad. I'm not talking about people who are naturally slim or who athletic. I'm talking about women who are so thin they have probably stopped menstruating. And by "genetic freaks" (an admittedly bad choice of words) I mean that many of the people who are held up as paragons are waaaay on the far end of the bell curve in terms of normal distribution, and whose bone structure, fat retention patterns, etc., are extremely unrealistic, if not impossible, as goals for the rest of the population.
However, I take the point.
Also, I'm aware thatthe standards of "perfection" cut both ways. For every stick-thin runway model there's a curvy Salma Hayek to live up to.