Dear People Who Say “Real Women Have _____”,
While I am all about accepting women who stray from the ideals of our culture by daring to say, wear a size larger than a zero or (heavens to Betsy) have body parts that jiggle, I have to let you know that ALL women are real women.
Yes, even models and otherwise skinny ladies. Yes, even Heidi Klum. Even Kate Moss. Even Sarah Palin. Not all women are average women, not all women are likable women, or agree-with-able women, but all women have hereby officially earned the right to be considered and referred to as real, even if theirs are the bodies and minds that are creating the ideals we so often chafe against. Just as we have to defend conservative women and liberal women alike from misogynistic attack, we also have to defend every woman’s right to have exactly the body she has. It’s part of feminism.
The robots, however, can fend for themselves.
Love,
Mary
