Will plus size become the new skinny ?

I was checking the newspaper today, and one of the titles was: " Glamour chooses more naked plus size models". (http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20110816_041)

We have all heard people talking about how in the past, heavier woman were considered to be the most attractive. And these days, being skinny is the main beauty standard in a big part of our society and culture (western) and some others.

In the september issue of the American Glamour magazine, were naked pictures of the 20 year old model Lizzie Miller. She was only wearing a thong and looked abit fuller than the average model.
The result was a flood of positive reactions from readers. They wanted to see more of these kind of models. Thats why Glamour (who follows the money flow) is planning a november issue with more naked plus size models.

Glamour tries to re-awaken the dialogue that the readers had started. Angry tongues say the magazine only publishes the picture as a publicity stunt. Glamour ofcourse argues the opposit.
The makers say more magazines should show models with a realistic figure instead of 0 sizes. So they call to designers to make bigger clothing, and not only for woman with size 0.

In this system where insecurity feeds the market, will they seriously do what is best for all? As long as profit is behind it, they need to create the things that will make them profit. They need to create the desires and standards for people to buy buy buy and feel insecure enough to buy it. It needs a certain "im not good enough" culture to do this. It also requires a big mass of working ants to create all these products and a commercial business to promote it to the people that dream of becoming more and better.

I agree that the whole 0 size thing is insane. I am a slender girl myself but I cannot imagine fitting in a size 0. I have a size 38-40 in my pants and I am 59 kg and 1m76. What the hell would I require to do to get to a size 0? I would have to start dieting, and get to an unhealthy weight which includes all kinds of health risks. You can get hormone problems, heart disease, brittle bones, infertility etc... Not only that, you are also mentaly destroying yourself to fit into a certain image. Saying to yourself that your not good enough when your not THAT image. After a while models get used to it and claim this is their natural self. But it has been programmed, and it is a business that is shown to us since we are little children. Its everywhere, even during the commercial brakes when your watching cartoon's.

When plus size would become the new skinny, again a market would be made of of it. Now they have it going well you know, all the diet products that battle against the junk food products and the people inbetween, the various therapies and the docters who get money from all the sick anorexic and obese patients, the media who gets attention with it and lots of viewers and thus money, lipsuctions, personal trainers etc... If they bombard plus size as the new standard they would start making a big business from it again (as long as profit is the drive). You can have new clothing styles, good sales of food as well, same for the media and readers, plastic surgery also to get the "right curves". People would feel alright with emotional eating or eating things that are damaging to their body (not saying that this isnt already the case).

So a solution within a profit driven system is actually not really possible. 1 thing which they desire to improves, leads to abuse on other levels. Money is nr 1 and will always be in such a system. Females will want "normal people" in magazines to feel better about themselves, but it has to sell or they wont do it. It has to sell equally as good and profit has to be made from it.

http://www.equalmoney.org

This hype around pipa middleton - WTF!?!

Since the marriage of her sister Kate Middleton, pipa has been all over the news - and it all started with ... her ass.

Sooo... the woman has an ass put her on the front page of every magazine and paper!!
LOL.

This article is not to complain about Pipa the person, the human being. Im sure Pipa herself didn't ask for it, she came to her sisters wedding and the next day she was all over the media. Although I don't know if this was set up or not. It irrelevant to the message I want to get across with this blogpost.

Because of the possitive attention her body gets, woman get jealous and even a facebook fan page has been created in her ass's honor.

The UK has also seen a rise in tanning due to the younger Middleton, and now they are reporting a spike in plastic surgery procedures as well. The tabloid also reported that one such clinic has even gone as far as to name the surgery "The Pip Package Perfect Posterior".

Since the first day I was like "wtf". And now after months I am still "wtf" with an added o_O.

All I see is a regular woman, with a normal body. But the media has kind of bombarded it as something more than it is and now people jump on it like puppets. It's pipa now and someone else in the next few months, thats how it goes. And you know why? Because it makes money. People go and look to be that way, get plastic surgery, get a gym membership, go tanning, buy her clothing or clothing that will make them look like her or equaly as "good", buy extra make up, maybe hair color, special diets and god knows what.... And this always happens time and time again. The system simply feeds off our insecurity and the sad thing is that we are the creators and maintainers. Who is in charge of beauty salons, of magazines and media, of beauty products and fashion items? People, people like you and I. Who is in charge of companies, of those promoting and teaching skills to get more buyers and pursuade people to consume and buy? People.
This is a world of people, programmed people. And we always seek to blame something or someone else, while we should really start by taking a good look within. We haven't been taught to think, we have been thought to copy and follow the thoughts that pop up into our minds or get taught to us.

At desteni we stand for the rebirth of humanity, the rebirth of yourself without the fear and shame and insecurity. To bring about the equal money system and live as the equals that we are. No one is better than another. When will we stop being these actors walking around with our gigantic ego's trying to pursuade others or buy their attention. Like those who walk around portraying the attitude of "look how important I am". Actors in their suits with their mansions and big boats and cars. When it comes down to it, we are all just living beings. Strip us naked and put us next to each other, and gone is all this seperation.

So don't wait for the rest to follow, start with yourself.