The Best Thing I Had Never Read
One of the things I have done right in my last three relationships was to go for guys who are attracted to my body type, the way it currently is, and not how I used to look, or hope to look one day soon. I’m curvaceous. I always will be. I want to be. Yes, I want the curve to be a bit less dramatic *smile* but I will always be a healthy woman, a country-curved girl. After reading The Body Politic by Abra Fortune Chernik, a short document relaying some powerful thoughts about women’s bodies, a piece of understanding about the quality of men I have been choosing has firmly settled into place. Men who love powerful women, who are secure enough to have a leader by their side instead of behind them, tend to love healthy, if not full-figured women. These are men who don’t mind a size 6, but would prefer at least a size 9, and thinks anyone below a 4 needs a meal. For speculation about why this is true, you’ll have to see the document for specifics. But in thinking about it, I look at how many of my male friends who are “big-boned” or “husky” don’t see it as a hinderance to getting a lady to be with. Why do women? And furthermore, on a physical level, it’s curious that we look to have females literally starve their bodies in order to take up less space. And on the physical plane of reality,