"Beauty" Standards.

Really?

Do you really care that much if I have a little hair on my legs? What does it really matter if my underarms are unshaven? Maybe we should ask why our society considers it normal for women to shave our underarms and legs and for god's sake, groom the hair from our privates??

I think it is for the sake of fashion. If swimming suits covered the areas they were supposed to, we wouldn't need to pay somebody to wax off our pubic hair! It is PAINFUL! Men can use their imaginations to think about our asses. We don't need to moon them with thong bottoms.

Why are women told we must "suffer for beauty"? Who was it who said "beauty is pain", anyway? The phrase existed long before Stanley Tucci uttered it in the film, 'The Devil Wears Prada'. And, somebody please tell me the real reason behind Babe Paley's infamous quote "A woman can never be too rich or too thin". I think it was insecurity. She was already as rich as Solomon and must have been terribly unhappy. So, the only control she could have over others was to starve herself so thin, her clothes would hang over her body like they do on a clothes hanger. No body there - just air.

Did you know that at the turn of the 20th century, the most beautiful woman in America was Sarah Bernhardt? She was a stage actress who was shorter, as all women were, back then. She also weighed in at 200 pounds. Yup - and she was considered the feminine ideal. Men swooned over her and women wanted to be her. Our current standard of beauty is insane. The system of starvation brings billions to the diet industry and keeps mental health professionals busy with self-loathing women seeking professional help. Comedian and social commentary queen, Kathy Griffin says the Hollywood diet is "Red Bull and Cocaine". I bet she's right - Paris Hilton was just arrested again, for cocaine possession.

Smart women who should be using their talents for better reasons are Starving Themselves Stupid.

It is fine if you are naturally thin. It is great to be healthy. But Dear God why do you want your thighs to be the same size as your arms? Why are we being told that this is the height of feminine beauty and the ideal? Because WOMEN WHO ARE STARVING DON'T HAVE THE STRENGTH TO STAND UP AND FIGHT. They want us to sit passively by, and agree to purchase all of the useless products designed to "make us more beautiful". I recently read an article where it was discovered that 100% of all lipstick samples tested by a lab contained LEAD. Read that again - 100% of Lipsticks have POISONOUS LEAD in them. ALL LIPSTICKS CONTAIN POISON. And lipstick gets eaten off, every day.

Do you think lipstick would contain lead if men wore it? Don't think so.

Why aren't men shaving their private parts? Oh wait - they are - "Manscaping". Cruel irony. The waxing industry is having a field day, aren't they? C'mon, I LIKE hairy chests on men. Really, really like them. It is normal and natural. I don't want my man to look like a 12 year old boy. Why do men want women to look like prepubescent girls? Because they fear grown-up women? Because they have to feel domineering, in order to become aroused? I just don't get it.