'Real Women' - Comments

Agreed. I was at a party last Halloween, and one of the hosts had her screensaver set as a slideshow of her collection of photos of models. Toward the end of the night, various women had gathered in the general area (it was where most of the seating was), of whom I was probably the skinniest (I'm 5'4" and 140lbs with a big ass), and eventually they started complaining about how it would be nice to see "real women" on the screen. I agreed with them that the lack of any variety in body type/size/shape was troubling, but I was really uncomfortable with their implication that they were "real women" and anyone skinnier wasn't, so I kept quiet.

And "plus-size" models usually wear a size 8-10. It's ridiculous.

There's so many gaunt models and eating disorders that girls need positive role models. I agree the terms annoying because the message should be 'be yourself' but because of the rapidly rising percentage of under eighteen eating disorders any role model that isn't a size 0 would be nice.

When I see the term "real woman" in magazines and other places, it's usually not to speak on only plus-size women or averaged-sized women. It's to show that ALL body-types are real woman. We often see "regular" sized or plus-sized women in those magazines, simply because they're the ones that are least represented in media.

Have you seen the Dove campaign for positive body image? They feature ads filled with "real women" and they include women of all sizes. And that's what is meant by real women. Woman of all shapes and sizes, not just thin women or plus-sized women, or curvy woman of athletic women, but ALL healthy women.

Yeah, we all are real women...
and you have to think, most of those are airbrushed to look perfect.

I think women should just be at a healthy weight and have their body fat in the healthy rage of 15 - 25%. This could be a size 2 for some, and a size 10 for others.

I'm 5'4 110 lbs and I like to consider myself a 'real woman.'

Some people are just dumb

Society is a strange, strange place.