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Real Women Do Not Have Curves, well they might, but that's irrelevent

August 6, 2009 by bb-pawprint

They say real women have curves, but the only women young girls see in the pop culture they’re surrounded by are ones who look more like pre-pubescent boys. It is also a terrible message to send a young girl who is at a crucial point of self development (which makes her very impressionable) that she is not womanly because she does not have an hourglass figure. $0 Culture is condemning these skinny images by countering them with those of “real women”: large breasts and a curvaceous bum, but slender everywhere else. It’s harmful to attach any body onto the elusive “real woman” because no singly type of figure applies to all healthy girls.  $0$0 The whole “real women have curves” idea may appease young insecure girls who feel judged by the ribs jutting out at them from the magazines that try to be the guides to their lives. However, it’s a jab to the girls who are naturally skinny and do not have curves.  $0$0 Culture and magazines, if they genuinely want to help teens in their awkward transformation to adulthood, should stop emphasizing any kind of body they expect will make people feel better about themselves. They should seek to help in development of the personal confidence and security so that advertisements intended for a flippant glance won’t resonate so deeply.  $0$0 What a real woman is shouldn’t be defined by appearance in any respect. If magazines emphasized the development and the value of other aspects of a girl, like unique talents and personal character as a friend, stereotypes of vanity could be broken and self worth and esteem would build.$0

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