Every woman can probably sympathise with me when I say; I hate them. The mannequins, with their manufactured, perfect poses. You know (and I certainly know) we will never look half as good as the mannequin does. Sure, you can buy every inch of what they've dressed it up in, go all out and get a wig too, they're still plastic and perfect.
Maybe I can fill you in on something. Psst, girls... You will never be happy with the way you look. I know, it's tough but that's the way things are, apparently.
Personally, I blame media pressure but that can't be all to blame. It's up to you, as a woman, to shrug off such typical stereotypes. I believe myself to be a head strong female that refuses to be told how she should look but, obviously, not every other female is like me.
Did you know that by age 18, women cry four times as much as men. Another interesting fact, twenty-five years ago, the average female model weighed 8% less than the average American woman where as, these days, the average female model weighs 23% below her average weight.
There was a study a good few years ago on Saturday morning tv adverts, you know, the ones between the kids programmes that give it all "BUY THIS 'CAUSE IT'LL MAKE YOU COOL!". Basically, they sat and watched the adverts for a weeks and analysed them. What did they find? Well, 50% of the cadverts aimed at girls spoke about physical attractiveness, where as none of the adverts aimed at boys refered appearance. Something I've never thought about before, girls toys are all about putting on make up, wearing nice clothes and doing your hair. Boys toys are quite violent... which might explain alot. This just shows that media pressure can start effecting girls when they are really young.
75% of "normal" weight women think they are overweight and 90% of women overestimate their body size... Something that I can confirm is true. I haven't been on scales in years, but whenever I did step on them, I was always pleasantly surprised.
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