Getting a woman to love and respect her body is a huge life challenge, even before fashion and marketing mess up our heads the game of life. We have two posts this morning, and one NYTimes article For the A-Cup Crowd, Minimal Assets Are a Plus that remind us just how diverse the population of beautiful women actually is. (See also Crystal Renn | High Street Scorching in Britain’s Look Magazine).

The Meaning of Bust Size

Today’s focus is breasts, but the arguments apply to every inch of fashion’s obsession with the ideal body type.

Even I am guilty at times of lamblasting fashion’s dispensing of breasts and hips in their definition of ideal beauty. Most women have curves, I argue and we don’t look like boys.

What a disempowering statement from a feminist like myself!

What I mean to say is that the 34AAA woman is every bit the ‘real woman’ as the 38C, but it aggravates the heck out of me that for the last decade mostly male — and often gay —  fashion designers have dictated a body image devoid of typical female physical attributes.