Daily Mail: Gone Too Far

I was recently asked if the media plays a role in making young woman feel insecure about their bodies, and ugly. This morning, the Daily Fail (I mean, Mail) provided evidence that the media definitely does, and I have to say that I am absolutely disgusted.

For the record, I am not a fan of The Only Way is Essex in the slightest. I don't know if I've just gotten too old for programmes like this, but, on par with Made in Chelsea, I really couldn't give a rats behind about it. I might recognise a couple of names from TOWIE purely because the whole country seems to think that I'm missing out on something, but other than that, I have no reason to defend any of them in a "fandom" sense.

However, imagine my disgust when this headline:

Oops, maybe you should have tried the next size up: Lauren Goodger's tiny dress feels the strain as a tear pops up on her night out

Is attached to this image:

The appalling headline, and it's subsequent article then goes on a horrid ramble implying that TOWIE's Lauren Goodger is "fat".

Now, I'm sorry, but if that is fat then Holy Crap there is no hope for the rest of us. If you want to see a real fat bird, in a grey dress, please refer to my post of yesterday. I would absolutely love to have an amazingly curvy figure like Lauren's, in fact I think that she looks absolutely stunning in that dress!

The article raises an immense issue, over why women with genuine curves (and not those of us, who say we're curvy, when we're just being nice to ourselves, and really want to say that we're fat!) are looked down upon by the media? A lot of women have hips, that is a fact of life, and they're completely natural.

I know that it's just part of human nature for women to criticise other semi-successful women out of jealousy or whatever, but I really do not think that there is a place for this kind of crap in newspapers or magazines.

We've become a nation of catty women, who would rather berate other women for being too fat or too thin, when we should be admiring the fact that they're doing well. Okay, so a lot of us might not agree with how the "cast" of shows like TOWIE have made it "famous", but that doesn't mean that they're not people, just like the majority of us, with actual feelings.

I'd really love for all of the men and women, who hide behind the newspapers and magazines that they "write" for to stand in a line so that the public can criticise parts of them that they feel insecure about, and can't change. It wouldn't gain anything, but maybe (just maybe) they'd begin to realise how absolutely hurtful and despicable they are.

Journalists like this, make me embarrassed to consider myself a writer.

Oh, and by the way, a hole in the side of your dress, does NOT necessarily mean that you should wear a bigger size. It could also mean that she's wearing a shoddily made dress!!