Women Are Beautiful

One of closest friends called me tonight for dating advice. Among the many topics we covered had to do with body image. My friend is a gorgeous woman by any measure of the word, but she doesn't see it.

My gorgeous, brilliant, well educated friend takes jobs that are beneath her and lets herself be reduced to booty calls because she looks in the mirror and doesn't see the same gorgeous woman the rest of us see. One study tells us that 55% of women suffer from some degree of poor body image.  What she, and many other women, don't realize is that 45% of men suffer the same problem. Perhaps if they realized that nearly as many men as women suffer from the same insecurities then they might realize it's universal.

Sadly, despite efforts by such companies as Dove, the perception of the “perfect body” are still in the mainstream. Models are primarily all a size 0, anything over a size 12 is considered “plus size”, and the heavy women that are on TV are in proportion. Real women don't fit in those categories, but they out there by the millions.

Women are beautiful creatures, no matter what their proportions. Even as a heterosexual woman I can see the beautiful design of the female body, Women shouldn't let the media isolate them, single them out as unsuitable. Especially Caucasian women.

Many black women are seen as beautiful no matter what their shape is, white woman should be as well.  Before anybody thinks I'm criticizing black women, stop.  I think it's wonderful that they get the credit due them for their beauty, this happens to be one area where black women got the privilege before white women did.  As happy as I am for their recognition, I wish it could be more universal.  Women are magnificent, if we cold be portrayed that way then maybe more of us could view ourselves that way.