We hear lots of talk about ‘real’ women these days. Folk moan that magazines don’t use images of ‘real’ women, labels don’t design for them, and that they’re having a hard time coping in a world full of supposedly perfect (I’m guessing ‘unreal’?) models, actresses and assorted celebrities. However, in their attempts to right these supposed wrongs, many people are actually making it worse by alienating an awful lot of the women they are championing.
Real women all have curves, apparently. Well, I know plenty of most-certainly 100% real* women who don’t. I know short, tall, curvy, straight, fat, thin, toned, squishy, flat-chested and large-breasted women. My friends, colleagues and acquaintances come in all shapes and sizes. Whether or not they fit any stereotype, they are all women and they are most definitely all real. Hell… even models are real people too. So, can we please stop all this nonsense now?
* By this I mean “being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verifiable existence”. I’m certainly not questioning anyone’s gender.
Ha! LOVE this. Personally I am not a subscriber to the “real women” thing when it comes to clothes. I accept that some things are not made for my shape and I spend my money elsewhere. Their loss, not mine 🙂
Accepting that the reason clothes didn't fit was because I was a different shape, not because I was fat took me years and years.
All this “real women” crap just encourages exactly the same one size fits all mentality that this is the shape that a woman “should” be.
Load of nonsense. So there.
“I know short, tall, curvy, straight, fat, thin, toned, squishy, flat-chested and large-breasted women. “
I'll order one of each of these real women please 😀
First expressed my frustration with ‘real women’ back in 2011. After reading @NatashaDevonBG’s piece I may revisit it http://t.co/bt0cXVj9Fg