Fat women? Skinny women? Should we really care?

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While I'm browsing the web, watching TV shows, or noting the latest Hollywood trends, I usually come across some negative discussion about a woman's weight. Last year, more often then not, people's commentary made it seem as if being an overweight woman is just as offensive as walking around with a swastika on your chest. If a female celebrity was fat, people would attack her for it. It didn't matter if she'd just had a baby, looked like a normal woman ought to look, or wasn't even that fat at all. People just had to find something to complain about. Or they just had to assume that an overweight woman is automatically lazy and gluttonous, despite the fact that many who exercise and eat right still have trouble losing weight. Take for example Jeniffer Love Hewitt. There was an unflattering photograph of her in a bathing suit, which displayed a less than minuscule butt and some cellulite. I was hoping she would come out with a comment saying "it was just an unflattering suit, and I'm not fat!" or "normal women have these flaws". Instead, she bought into what the media expected of her and blasted her body into the epitome of slender fitness. Of course there's nothing wrong with her wanting to tone up, but should we as women really be listening to all this crap about our bodies? Now the newest criticism of women is that they are too skinny. Because more people are starting to advocate the "Real Women Have Curves" philosophy, thinner women are becoming a more acceptable target for misogynistic critics to attack. Granted, people who's ribs are showing might not be getting enough to eat, but when a woman is just plain thin is it necessary to fling the term "anorexic" at her and implore her to "eat a sandwich" when no one knows what makes her so thin? While they don't receive as much flack as fat women, skinny women do have to deal with annoying stereotypes about their eating habits and level of attractiveness. Women that look like toothpicks may eat twice as much as rounder women and still look like toothpicks. Some people are just naturally thin, fat, skinny, thick, what have you. In my opinion, people really need to stop taking offense to the non-conventional female form. Fat women aren't bothering you, skinny women aren't bothering you, and cellulite is not the end of humanity. If you want a world where every woman conforms to conventional standards of beauty, go lock yourself in a room with a Maxim and leave everyone else alone. Women shouldn't feel the need to be attractive to everyone that has to look at them on a daily basis. And even if you believe that being overweight or underweight are unhealthy, why does it seem like the majority of discussion about weight is focused on women? Shouldn't men outside the normal weight range be receiving just as much criticism? Honestly, they aren't.