| We live in a fashion-obsessed world. The media | | | | to do with it? Everything! Gay men do not find |
| adds to this obsession by giving much more | | | | women sexually attractive and the models these |
| coverage to fashion and the private lives of | | | | men choose reveal this. Their models hardly look |
| models, than to more serious issues. The | | | | like women. They are androgynous. |
| advertising industry too adds to this frenzy by | | | | They are women but they look like men - they |
| using only models and film stars to endorse | | | | are tall and have just token breasts and this is |
| everything from Ayurvedic medicines to invertors. | | | | why gay men find them attractive. |
| As a result, women are increasingly influenced by | | | | By constantly praising such models, calling them |
| the images of the anorexic models they see on | | | | truly beautiful and using only this androgynous look |
| TV, on billboards, in magazines, etc. They begin to | | | | in fashion and advertising, the gay men in the |
| think that female beauty means lanky, tall, | | | | world of arts, music and fashion are brainwashing |
| stick-like figures without any curves whatsoever. | | | | women to think the same way. |
| But is this real female beauty? Renee Zellweger | | | | Men want to be thought to be cool and so they |
| had to put on 28 pounds to play the part of | | | | want to have women that other men want. Since |
| Bridget Jones in the hit movie Bridget Jones' Diary | | | | the image of the perfect woman is one who is |
| and can anyone deny that she looked absolutely | | | | thin to the point of looking anorexic and who is as |
| gorgeous? Similarly, women who are plump - who | | | | flat as a pancake, the men then begin to want |
| don't look as if they came from a famine-stricken | | | | stick-thin trophy wives/lovers that other men find |
| area are often ravishing. | | | | beautiful, on their arms. |
| Kate Winslet is another example of a curvy | | | | As a result, they too end up disliking curves. So, |
| woman who looks good both in and out of | | | | the image created and sustained by the gay men |
| clothes. Can anyone forget how wonderful she | | | | and bitter older women (the fags and hags) who |
| looked in Titanic? | | | | run the fashion world gets reinforced and |
| People may have different ideas about which | | | | accepted. |
| women they consider beautiful, but Kate Winslet | | | | THE CONSEQUENCE |
| is sure to be on everyone's list. And Kate's shape | | | | This often has sad results for the models who |
| is closer to the shape of the average woman | | | | try to bring this image to life. Take, for example, |
| than to that of a ramp model. Elfin and cute Kylie | | | | Kate Moss, a famous British model. As she tried |
| Minogue, who wins fans not just with her singing | | | | to live an artificial life in which putting on weight |
| but also with her personality, is another one sure | | | | meant the end of her career, she took to drugs. |
| to win votes. Tall and strong stars like Lucy | | | | Another fallout of the unnatural and oppressive |
| Lawless may seem less feminine in the traditional | | | | demand being made on women to remain young |
| sense, but she too has her admirers. | | | | and beautiful all their lives, is the demand for |
| DESIRE TO BE THIN | | | | cosmetic surgery. Pamela Anderson became a |
| But, in spite of having these role models, most | | | | star after she got silicone implants in her breasts. |
| women still yearn to be thin. What they do not | | | | Hers is the very antithesis of the skinny look and |
| realise that thin is not beautiful as far as men are | | | | men love her. These are men who are robustly |
| concerned. Are there any flat-chested, pole-thin | | | | heterosexual and don't care a hoot about models |
| women in Playboy, for instance? | | | | or high fashion. |
| Geri Halliwell, a member of the Spice Girls singing | | | | What women should realise is that inner beauty is |
| group, was fantastic till she brought out her first | | | | more important than being in line with whatever |
| solo album. But soon afterwards, she lost weight | | | | the fashion industry has decided is the look to be |
| and began to look far too thin and gaunt. She lost | | | | considered beautiful. |
| her great looks and many of her admirers. | | | | Currently the gay men in the fashion industry |
| Men like women who have a sexy body. They | | | | have decreed that the angular, thin, disdainful, |
| are repulsed by thin, bony, assertive women with | | | | self-absorbed and terminally shallow look is in. But |
| small breasts who smoke and exercise | | | | this decree need not be accepted. |
| obsessively to keep their shape. Of course, the | | | | There is no one definition of beauty. No one can |
| slim look attracts too but only when it is natural in | | | | decree that this is beauty and nothing else is. My |
| a young woman. Self-made wrecks don't attract! | | | | genes have made me tall, model-thin and |
| But teenage girls and young women don't always | | | | flatchested, but I don't feel beautiful. |
| understand this. They are totally influenced by the | | | | As female photographer Leslie Delano has said, all |
| pictures of the models that they see and by the | | | | women are beautiful. As for women with curves, |
| views that men in the arts, music and fashion | | | | at least you can roll over in bed with them |
| industries, who are often gay, express in | | | | without worrying that you will cut yourself on |
| interviews. | | | | their hips or shoulder blades. |
| What does the fact that these men are gay have | | | | |