Real women have a variety of body types

Amen! I don't really agree with a lot of what you are seeing, I do see your point with some. Thin people can be rude, but I don't know if that is due to their thinness. However, I do think that overweight people have a hard time getting respect as people because too much emphasis is placed on our looks.

*I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart*

Thats true about intentionally thin people; but I know plenty of naturally thin girls who are quite sensitive about their wieght.

You shouldn't hate someone purley on the basis that they are skinny.

I apologise in advance for anything I have said in the post above.

No offense, TalentedMrRipley, but how blatantly, pathetically ignorant do you have to be to believe that?

Are you honestly ignorant enough to believe that your body type makes you a "villain"?
Are you honestly ignorant enough to believe that your body type makes you a "victim"?
Are you honestly ignorant enough to believe that just because you are skinny, your life is handed to you on a silver platter?
Are you honestly ignorant enough to believe that just because you are fat, your life is "twice or maybe even thrice as hard" as that of a skinny person?
Are you honestly ignorant enough to believe that just because you are skinny, you are extremely mean and reject people and treat them like freaks because of their body type?

If you are pathetic enough to believe that, then I have pity on you. It takes great levels of ignorance to think like that - embarrassing, pitiful levels.




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Um, just because a person is thin doesn't mean she has no struggles whatsoever. For example, I'm naturally thin and 'curve-less', so using your logic, I would have a natural advantage over the curvier/chubbier girl. But I'm also visibly physically disabled, which makes it harder for people to take me seriously (yes, disabled people have a harder time getting jobs even if their disability does not interfere with their job performance). Plus, I don't look down on chubbier people-- at least, not the ones who are confident. They have no problem with the way they look despite societal pressure, and that is very respectable because I know how difficult dealing with that pressure can be.

Um... no they don't... and no the OP isn't, at all. You're hypersensitive and you're an intolerant idiot. It's OK to glorify obesity (aka what you call curves) but thin/curvy/athletic women are evil bitches for simply being who they are. There are by far more meanness from fat/chubby people to thinner ones (and generally from women to women, I'm embarrassed to say).

Grow up.

You think you think that you're glowing, but you had been ho-ing, and now you're pregnant.

Okay, so even though this is 9 years old I still have to say it: should there be a movie called, "real people have colored skin"?

Hey there, Delilah! How bout we all shut up now?!

Women come in all shapes and sizes and the title also bothered me a bit. However, as there's such pressure for women to look a certain way, then the title does fit the premise of the film.

And I don't think the movie was really about curves - it was about having the courage to stand up for yourself and your beliefs. And to follow your heart. It was also about growing up and understanding how the real world works while keeping your integrity.

America's character was so strong and real, there aren't many characters like her in movies - but many in real life. She could think for herself, she deserved an education and she wanted to be valued for what she had to say rather than her looks (and I think that would have applied too if she had been beautiful and her mum was trying to marry her but she wanted an education).

The point about her losing her virginity was beautifully made ('I'm worth more than what's between my legs') and it's easy to forget that this way of thinking is still used to opress women in a lot of cultures. As if we were here just to fulfill men's needs and be baby making machines and not have any dreams/ambitions.

This movie made me feel really good about myself and the fact that I also always felt that the way I look is secondary :) :)

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You are most mistaken. We live in a society that completely worships thickness, or, as they say to make the thick women feel better, "curves". Which is idiotic because I'm very thin but I have curves, as do many thin women. The OP makes a good point.

Can we slender women have a movie that glorifies slender women if the thick women do now?

Hey there, Delilah! How bout we all shut up now?!

I can understand where the OP is coming from. Yes, generally, thin is considered to be beautiful by Hollywood standards, and we do constantly have the "thin is beautiful/sexy" idea rammed down our throats, but it's the problematic use of the word "real" that have people divided.

I really liked this movie and its message. But I can definitely see how it can offend women who don't have curves. You have to look at it this way- yes, the thin is sexy idea may be very common, but it is still also very common for curves, thickness, (whatever you prefer to call it), to be more desirable (depending on where you go/who you ask).

There are plenty of men for example who prefer thicker women to thinner women. During my teenage years when I was still insecure about my body and everything, I often felt bad because most of the guys I knew preferred thicker women, or at least women with bigger breasts, hips, butts, etc. But I mean that was then, I grew up and I'm comfortable in my own skin now, and realize that I shouldn't want to look a certain way just so guys will be attracted to me. BUT, I think that it's something a lot of women are affected by, especially younger ones. There are also women who prefer to be curvy than to be skinny. I have friends who've said they'd hate to be thin, because they see it as being less beautiful.

So while the phrase "real women have curves" can be very empowering to many women, it (just like "skinny is beautiful" can also have the opposite effect on women who don't fall into that category).

I think the whole point of the movie is that you should be comfortable in your own skin, and not give in to the pressures of what other people "think" you should look like because all women are beautiful in their own way, and that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.

So don't let the title offend you- it's the message that counts. I guess "Real Women Have Curves" is a bolder statement/has a better ring to it than, "Real Women Come In All Shapes and Sizes."

Real women DON'T look like prepubescent boys.

Women aren't "supposed" to have anything. Hips and vaginas bear children. You got those assets, you can bear children. [/commonsense]

You think you think that you're glowing, but you had been ho-ing, and now you're pregnant.