shapes

well myspace is certainly fun. one of the things cliff didn't mention in his homages to it were the amount of women on it.
actually this isn't all that surprising that there are lots of birds on there as my extended network is something like 66 million people (all of whom i am now on first name basis with!)
but with that many women on the site you need to be able ot filter them down to a number that is manageable and corresponds to your own desires. thankfully myspace does that as well.
so i have been merrily searching the site to see who is there. (so far spotted two people i know from other places!)
now as you may know (and i have admitted this in the past) i am a lech who finds teh female form beutiful in it's myriad forms. currently i have been going through a bit of a chubby chasing phase (as the great frank zappa once said "the bigger the cushion the better the pushin") so using the filter function i have scanned the site to have a look at the lovely ladeeeeez.

the main thing that has struck me is the number of people who seemiingly have a negative vision of their bodies. the number of willlow like women who claim that they are chubby or fat is amazing.
trust me i know what fat is - as i can grab more than an inch or three... and these women who think that are fat or large are not.
i work with a woman who is gorgeous, true she is of a larger size, but she carries it well. instead of seeing the fact that she is very attractive she completely worries about the few extra pounds that she has (and she does carry it all very well).
i was at an exhibition of some very bad photographs in which there was a picture of a naked woman, who was fairly lithe looking. in the text for the exhibition it was mentioned that she felt she was obese but once she saw the photos she changed her mind. now i have to say someone of her size who had the idea that she was obese makes me think that there is something obviously going wrong with her head.

perhaps old naomi was right about the "false" visions of beauty - we are bombarded with a particular type of what beauty should be like (and mostly we all understand that the models that smile at us from billboards, advertising hoardings, magazines, tv and cinema) are not "normal" and they are not what real people should aspire too.
well at least that should be the case, but more and more as we get sucked into celebrity culture and so now we are bombarded with images of people who we are told are living the lives we want to lead and part of that life is having that "look".
yet i can't help it too often the current vision of celebrity beauty just looks too scrawny to be healthy.
but then i suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder - just wish more people were able to see their own beauty.