Real or Fake?

So... there I was getting ready for work this morning, when something I heard on Good Morning America, really pissed me off.  At first I thought maybe the combo of getting up at 4am, only getting 5 hours of sleep and lack of caffeine were making me cranky.  Then I drank some more Spark and said "Nope.  GMA, you really made me mad!".  Here's what happened....

As I'm washing my face and getting dressed, I see the story about the adorable Amber Riley, who is on the show Glee and has just performed her first number on Dancing With the Stars.  WOW!  She seriously danced her ass off!  She really was amazing, just WATCH.

 

The GMA reporter then proceeded to talk about how Twitter was on fire and quoted one Tweet in particular.  It said, and I quote, "You're an inspiration to real women everywhere!".  Hmmmm...I'm sorry....REAL women?  Are you implying Amber is a real woman because of her fuller figure?  Am I not a real woman because I don't wear a size 16?  Am I not a real woman because I choose to live a healthy lifestyle and workout?  Strange.  Last time I checked, I still had tits and a uterus. 

Take a look at this picture I found.....

Maybe I should be blaming Dove for starting this whole "Real Women" trend?  Every single woman in that photo is beautiful.  Yes, the Victoria's Secret models are thinner, duh...it's their fucking JOB!  (Damn it! I was trying to get through this blog without using the "f" word. #epicfail)  So, basically what Dove is trying to tell me, is that in order for ME to be a REAL woman, I need to be a bigger version of myself.  What.  The.  Fuck.  That's just ridiculous!!!  Why can't I just be ME??

I am SO over the media and how it makes us, as women, feel so damn self conscious about every little fucking thing on our body!!!  I'm not as small as the VS models, but I'm not as big as the Dove models either, so does that make me a FAKE woman??!!  What a load of CRAP!!  Why should those women in the Dove ad be considered real, and VS models or women with an athletic build like mine are not?  I'm so confused, because I thought having a huge baby come out of my vagina was a pretty good indication I was a woman.  Weird.

I obviously have a huge issue with the use of this word "real".  It just blows my mind to hear it in that context.  In my mind, regardless of size....we are ALL REAL women.

#rant #over  #sorryimnotsorry

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