Fat is beautiful

We docs spend a lot of time encouraging our patients to lose weight and exercize, but all the kerfuffle about fat models on magazine covers sort of misses the point.
Example One:

when JP said “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.”, the woke fought back:

“I love that he (Peterson) did this because it’s going to get us to talk about this issue. That is clearly an important issue to talk about. You can’t be one way. You have a whole bouquet of beauty,” Emme said.

well, aside from the health problems associated with obesity, the main problem with touting a plump lady on the cover is that the swimsuit is ugly, and makes her body look ugly. And the swimsuit, instead of flattering her, emphasizes her rolls of fat while letting her bosom sag.

and to make it worse, she is not smiling or looking happy: she is looking either mad or puzzled, and scratching her scalp as if she had dandruff.

If this is feminism, then I think they need a visit from the fashion police.

so why not use one of the swimsuits that actually flatter plus sized women?

LINK   

this is not about letting chubby women look nice.

nor is it an overlate push back at the anorexic models that high fashion imposes on society as normal, ignoring the health problems of these women: diet pills, anorexia nervosa and bullemia, with the problems of amenorrhea and in the long term, osteoporosis.

no wonder all those models don't smile and tend to look miserable rather than happy. 

the irony? the problem is the fashion industry that makes women ugly, not the men who look to oogle a beautiful woman.

Maybe it's time to go back to classic fashion styles to look nice.

Lane Bryant Catalogue from 1942:

https://chronically-overdressed.com/2021/05/27/1942-plus-size-vintage-styles-from-lane-bryant-catalog/

but the good news is that some stores are actually offering nice looking clothing for size 14 or over. 

and some stores are even offering swimsuits that cover us up, like burkinis and longer sleeves: Not just for modesty but a blessing for those of us prone to sunburn.

what brought this up was that Ruby just had a Canadian friend visiting, and she was pale in complexion and had numerous black moles (and yes she monitors them for melanoma). Me, I am not that pale but so far I've had two basal cell cancers removed from my face.

So yes, sunlight is good, but like everything it has a side effect.