Makes You Feel So Damn Unpretty

I'm sure by now some of you have heard about Rush Limbaugh's comments about Michelle Obama's physical appearance, here's the link to those who haven't http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/rush-limbaugh-michelle-obama-food_n_826092.html. What he basically said was that the first lady is unfit to be the spokesperson for our youth because she doesn't not so good eating habits and she's not the slimmest slim jim in the box. WTF!!! Statements like this makes me want to throw my laptop against the wall. First of all Rush Limbaugh looks like he hasn't missed a meal sine 1987 and he has the nerve to call somebody unfit, chile please.  There are no words in the english language to describe how much I despise this man and that these recent comments has just exacerbates my dislike for him, I just wish he would go somewhere and stfu (shut the f@ck up).

See the first thing someone would say to defend him would be, oh but he didn't call her fat and yes those words didn't actually come out of his mouth but that's what the hell he meant. When he says this :  “I’m trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.” This literally makes my want to slap the sh#t out of him, this man is nobody's Brad Pitt not even in his best days. What really makes me mad about this statement, is not the fact the man who said looks like porky the pig himself, its that this outrageous claim affects the way  some women view themselves. In my opinion Michelle Obama is not fat at all, she's a normal size just like most women in this country. You want to know what's not a normal size? The girls on the SI cover (and this isn't a diss to them) so when a man says some bs like what said Rush Limbaugh, what is the normal size woman suppose to think about this?


This way of thinking that Rush Limbaugh is demonstrating, is exactly why women have low self body images of themselves and why some are bent over toilet right now throwing up last night's dinner. This is why women are going to back alley plastic surgeons to get butt and boob implants or they're running on the treadmill damn near to the point where they're about to pass out. They're doing all these things and so much more to chase this impossible image of beauty/perfection that society or people like Rush Limbaugh are putting out there. Well, I'm here to say enough is enough. Women are literally killing themselves to look like these women on magazine covers, like the girl who died earlier this year while getting butt implants. Now I didn't know this young lady, but I'm pretty sure she wanted butt implants because that's what's hot in the streets, a phat azz. Her regular booty wasn't bring all the boys to the yard, so decided to super size that thing to get the attention from men that she wanted. This whole way of thinking right here my friends is a damn shame. What the magazines and the people pushing these images don't tell you is, half of these women don't look like that in real life and the other half that do they've gone through hell and high water to do so. They have a team of people to create this image, there's a trainer, a nutritionist, a cook, and a whole host of other folks. They're in the gym 4 hours a day. What normal woman, working a normal job with normal responsibility has the time or the means to create the same images on these magazines? I'm thinking not too many, the models on other hand can because that's their job. Their 9-5 is just that, to be thin and beautiful. 


I really wish people like Rush Limbaugh would stop going around spewing damn near unrealistic body images to women, when they are very much less than perfect themselves. This is a major problem in our community, how women view their own self body image compared to the ones they see on TV and magazines, and the links they go through to reproduce these images. So when people directly or indirectly call normal size woman fat, I just want to kick my chair and throw it out of the window. Just because someone isn't a size 2 doesn't mean they are fat  (now if you're a size 22, that's a different discussion) and when more people realize this the better off we'll all be.