This is your life as a beta:

Be Proud, Very Proud!!!

These are the Women of a Beta. I bet he is just purely busting with pride… In fact, I know he is. Let’s all give a big round of applause for the man who “landed an amazing woman”. Oh FFS! Nice man with an good job… proud to have landed a cow. This is where the beta boys go wrong, horribly wrong. This is not what Men of Value want of their women. Jesus, have some self-respect! Don’t encourage these cows! They just end up thinking, well, this:

Next they won’t even bother with the lipstick!

If men reward these big ‘uns with attention and hop on their necessarily large, and presumably, shame-free bandwagons, next, they will think the whole entire world should look like them.

Oh wait. They already do…

The problem with these mannequins, other than the obligatory ‘ewwww’, is that these shiny plastic babes are essentially the same mannequins as the skinny ones, just made a little bigger around so that size 12 and 16 clothes won’t fall off of them. Check out the size 16 dolly in the foreground. How many real live size 16 gals do you think have thighs that don’t touch? My guess is not that many.

2013 Hog Parade

So, what is the problem with encouraging and normalizing these “healthy body images”? For one thing, it makes women who look like this:

Think they look like this:

Go to New Century Man to vote for your preference.

It’s not that much of a stretch to imagine that when “average” size women see the bigger mannequins, they will think that they have “healthy curves”, and once the curvy gals are buying “the same size as the mannequins”, it won’t be too long before even bigger women take over the planet and then… it’s just too frightening to consider.

Somewhere along the line, the legend of the size 12 Marilyn Monroe was born.

Chubsters far and wide, heavy on the wide, love to tell us that Marilyn Monroe was a size 12, or 14, or 16. It just isn’t true. According to an article written by Daven Hiskey,

“So what size was Marilyn Monroe actually? Luckily, many of her dresses, carefully preserved, are still around to measure off of. Further, one of her dress makers also chimed in with exact measurements he took. Those measurements were 5 ft. 5.5 inches tall; 35 inch bust; 22 inch waist (approximately 2-3 inches less than the average American woman in the 1950s and 12 inches less than average today); and 35 inch hips, with a bra size of 36D. “

And this:

“As a direct example of her size, the white dress she wore in The Seven Year Itch was recently auctioned off and was put on a mannequin that was a size 2, but they were still unable to zip up the dress as the mannequin was too big. Many of her other dresses that exist from throughout her career match up to about the same, give or take an inch or two.”

In case you are interested, that looks like this:

Doesn’t look like a size 12-16 to me…

Most interesting of all is that many women of the 1950’s had very similar measurements. The Telegraph has an article that clearly states this, nevermind the silly comments, the subtitle is, “Almost half of British women mistakenly believe their figures match the ideal body shape desired by men.”

“Scientists who study waist-to-hip ratios – the waist measurement divided by the hip measurement – say a ratio of 0.7, enjoyed by women such as Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor at her peak, is most likely to be attractive to the opposite sex.

But the survey, commissioned by health and beauty event the Vitality Show being held in London next month, revealed that modern women, on average, have a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.83.”

(A statistic that I am sure will be appreciated by JB, so go check out her related article.)

Now the problem here is that when you take a modern woman who is a size 12-14-16, show them pictures of Marilyn, Liz or Judy and repeatedly tell them “hey, you’re the same size” they will inevitably believe that They. Look. Like. Marilyn. Fill up stores with size 12 and 16 mannequins and pretty soon, really big gals will think they look like the mannequins, so they are indeed beautiful and loved and desired by one and all.

Guess where this gal’s Seven Year Itch is located?

Please, stop normalizing obesity and stop pretending that you are other than lazy if you are in double digit sizes. It isn’t healthy and it isn’t pretty. And, Men, stop letting women get away with this!!!