7-14-14: I saw a post on my Facebook news feed that by the current standards of society and the fashion industry, Marilyn Monroe would be too "fat" to model on Clickhole. This is what I think:
Even though Clickhole is a satire site like the Onion, if she were alive today and in her prime, I wouldn't be surprised if society's skewed beauty standards considered her to be "fat" or a "plus size model". First off, she is beautiful. Second off, the definition of "fat" doesn't mean that you have meat on your bones, hips, and boobs. That is called normal. The real definition of fat means that you're 400 pounds, eat large pizza boxes and tubs of ice cream by yourself, and have fat rolls everywhere and jiggle arms. In that case, people may not be necessarily attracted to you. Yes, you need to be attractive to a certain degree to model, but that doesn't mean you should starve yourself just to "look skinny"... because that's unhealthy and disgusting. Also, everyone wears clothes, not just tiny women.
The phrase that real women have curves is true. Clothes and people come in all shapes and sizes, not just size small or lower. Therefore, they should show what a small, medium, and large look like. Even when clothes aren't being modeled, being super skinny isn't normal for one, and only hiring super skinny people to model is very closed-minded and you get a superficial impression of what beauty really is... which then leads to these super skinny women becoming people's idols, which then promotes eating disorders with a side of depression, anxiety, and more! Even when little girls are trying on clothes, he mannequins are always obnoxiously skinny too. Come on! That's not what people look like. The world full of people of all shapes and sizes, so let's stop saying that only skinny people are beautiful enough to model and embrace beauty as just smiling and being yourself!
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