Tuesday, February 20, 2007
The skinny model debate
I don’t want to offend anyone, particularly not gay men with my true feelings, but do finally want to commit them to writing.
Years ago, before modelling agencies started branding women who were only 20lbs underweight as being too fat, the great majority of men preferred women with at least some curves. My own rule of thumb was that if a woman felt she needed to lose 10-15 lbs, I probably thought she was perfectly proportioned. I don’t believe men’s taste has changed. I know mine hasn’t.
Now, I hear models being blamed as being bad role models for young women. WRONG! Their employers set the standards. If a woman must look as if she needs a month long eating binge in order to become a model, good luck to her if she can turn being sickeningly skinny into a means of making money. I actually watched about 3 minutes of coverage from the recent New York fashion week. It was about all I could stomach!
So who is really to blame? I remain convinced that the fashion industry is run by gay men who, unlike my old friend Thori who loved Claudia Schiffer, want models to look like boys. Few men find them attractive and no woman, young or not so young should seek to lose all vestiges of their femininity by attempting to emulate this nauseating and unhealthy look.
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Years ago, before modelling agencies started branding women who were only 20lbs underweight as being too fat, the great majority of men preferred women with at least some curves. My own rule of thumb was that if a woman felt she needed to lose 10-15 lbs, I probably thought she was perfectly proportioned. I don’t believe men’s taste has changed. I know mine hasn’t.
Now, I hear models being blamed as being bad role models for young women. WRONG! Their employers set the standards. If a woman must look as if she needs a month long eating binge in order to become a model, good luck to her if she can turn being sickeningly skinny into a means of making money. I actually watched about 3 minutes of coverage from the recent New York fashion week. It was about all I could stomach!
So who is really to blame? I remain convinced that the fashion industry is run by gay men who, unlike my old friend Thori who loved Claudia Schiffer, want models to look like boys. Few men find them attractive and no woman, young or not so young should seek to lose all vestiges of their femininity by attempting to emulate this nauseating and unhealthy look.
