I'm not saying Tim Curry isn't attractive, as a man dressed up as a woman, but that is the point: he is a man, what is Glenda Gilson's excuse? Oh I know I'm being to hard on her. Given the school yard rules of "would you eat chips out of her knickers" of course I would, but that's hardly the point. Given the right circumstances you'd eat chips out of anyone's knickers. "Would I give her one" then, well of course I would! But an act with such violent undertones is not exactly a sign of affection, now is it? Basically what I'm trying to say it, I don't understand the pedestal Glenda Gilson finds herself perched upon. This is hardly noteworthy though. In my well vented opinion, 90% of the women I see lofted onto pedestals have reached those heights unjustly. So what is it about Glenda that grinds my gears so much? Well I think the sub heading of the current
debutante issue XPOSÉ magazine points in the right direction: "GET GLENDA'S BODY."
I would love to have Glenda's body, because I am a man and I think it would look quiet well on me. It seems odd for a woman to want to acquire "Glenda's body", for it really is not very feminine in stature. It has nothing to do with thinness actually, it's just not very feminine. Not a crime of course and certainly I'm not one to throw stones at appearance, per se, but when you have a woman lauded as one of the pinnacles of female beauty, with all the curves of say, Michael Phelps, a contradiction does arise. The only curves on her body are in the form of her highly arched eyebrows. Perhaps these are all one needs these days, but to say women should aspire to Glenda's overall shape is not only misguided but perhaps dangerous, to anyone unhinged enough to attempt such an acquisition. Some women will, no matter how hard they try, always look "womanly". One should not mistake this as me agreeing with the "Real women have curves" bullshit. Humans are all roughly the same but with vast variety in statures, there's no such thing as universal body type.
I don't understand all this "Get the perfect body" rubbish either. We're bombarded daily with diet plans and exercise routines dressed loosely in a guise of "get fit" but when it all comes down to it, it's nothing more than an exercise in vanity. Day after day the brain is bombarded with messages "fat is wrong" "you are a failure" "you will die and destroy your families lives" "get healthy or die trying"... pressure upon pressure upon the fragile human mind. It is nearly guaranteed that you will not follow what these messages say; you will only absorb their sentiment, which is, that there is something is morally wrong with you. Your posture will slouch as self opinion evaporates. Your body will produce adrenaline to deal with the stress of realising your life so far has been a complete and absolute failure. Newly formed cholesterol clings to the wall of now tightened and constricted arteries. Slowly but surely, your 6 pound overweight body begins to kill itself. Mental health is ignored in the pursuit of a "perfect body", and we wonder then why there are so many eating disorders.
This post got far too politically correct, sorry about that. Glenda Gilson: body of a man. There we go.
