"A Ha ha. No. I'm totally messing with you."

“But I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

I find this absolutely fascinating. And of course it's made infinitely more poignant because it comes from Tina Fey. It's hysterical... But also the cold truth. While I am incredible happy that women who aren't stick-figures are winding their way into the media on a grander scale, there is no denying that there is a reciprocation-- because it's novel and hot, everyone else is expected to have those attributes as well as everything else! You want sexy boobs, a teeny tiny waist, narrow hips, long legs, slender arms, not too big feet... Hardly any of those proportions show up at the same time on any given body. Ever. What I found really had an impact was how Tina Fey used the nationalities and regions associated with particular physical attributes. It emphasizes how impossible looking that perfect would be. And that definition of perfect is just an opinion anyways... It's not real naturally for the masses. If that body type is possible (which I'm not saying it's not), statistically it is shared by about 5% of the female population. Does that mean that the other 95% is worthless? Or automatically ugly? I'm not sure. But it does, to some extent (in America at least) contribute to a sense of emptiness that you want to fill... And what can you fill it with? Adverts say-- products! And we're back to my project.

I remain amped to the max.