ashleyisboss:

miss-r:

“Today’s ideal body shape seems to be a bizarre combination of male desire and waifish androgyny; thin, no hips, big bust. For most this is only possible with a genetically-blessed bone structure along with surgery - something which America is pursuing with a vengeance. Couple this with the “toned” look, where muscular (but not overly-so) women play lead roles in Hollywood, and champion the fitness industry.”

Maybe it’s just that when the standards get so high that they’re nearly unattainable, we give up. I mean, what’s the point?

“If at first you don’t succeed, quit!”  - Homer Simpson

Just kidding. Kinda. Millions of people around the world aren’t tuning in to see the normal kids at the YMCA do laps, they want Phelps. Or Kobe or Manning… When people watch Tiger Woods play golf, it’s because he is exceptional, his talent is [virtually] superhuman. People don’t read stories about the boring suburban family next door (unless they’re Philip Roth fans?), and they don’t pack arenas to see shitty garage bands than can barely keep a tune. We want fantasy - we’re watching them because they’re good at what they do, but it doesn’t mean we can’t shoot some hoops down at the park, or get wasted and shred some Rockband.

Of the stack of fashion magazines sitting on my table, few of the models are blonde, and with the exception of the south american girls, most of them are porcelain-skinned to fairly light. As for the waifishness, I think designers are artists and certain bodies present their work as they envision it. When you’re looking at a vintage or couture dress costing $10,000 and up, the model inside should be as impractical and ridiculous as the dress outside.

I’m too tall to be a fighter pilot and too short to be a NFL quarterback.  I’ve also never in my entire life wanted to be either. And even if i could drop a few thousand dollars on threads I’ll never squeeze my ass into a Heidi Slimane tux or a Thom Browne three-piece, but I still think they look fly to ‘def on the david beckham clones in GQ, better than they would ever look on Horatio Sans.

For the record, I like skinny girls with no boobs, giant waterpolo chick with biceps and lats that put mine to shame, buxom curvy girls, and yes, even sometimes the tramps at Kress and Foxtail that look like blowup dolls… Just own your shit, shake your body down to to the ground!  If Beth Ditto and that Hairspray chick can do it, no one should have an excuse.