Reply #53: You cling to the phrase "real women" as if that phrase weren't the exact problem [View All]

If you'd ask them, I'm sure that even those "kiddie porn" "waifs" whom you decry would consider themselves real women. In every post in this thread, and with each clarification, you make a woman's "realness" contingent upon whether or not she adheres to some standard of appearance.

Regardless of your subsequent spin, the structure of your original post clearly identified "voluptuous women" with "the women who care more about life" while directly implying that the "anorexic" "waifs" don't care about life or are less "real."


I understand that you're now claiming that you didn't mean it like that, and I even understand that you truly might not think that way. Nevertheless, that's how you wrote it--you made a deliberate choice to use the common phrase "real women" to criticize women whom you contrasted with full-figured women. Your original post gave no indication that you were referring to women in general, and in the absence of that indication there was no reason to assume that that's what you meant.

But I'm not "reading more into it." I'm reading exactly what you wrote and responding to it. You are now writing more into it by pretending that you made statements in your OP that you clearly did not. If you're clarifying your OP now, that's fine, but (again) don't blame the reader for reading what you wrote--that's your problem.