Ideals are always hard to live up to
Our mainstream ideal of womanhood is a false construct
Dreamt up by gay fashion designers in Paris, London and Rome
Who like the skinny hips of adolescent boys better than voluptuous curves
So they starve the girls into scraped and angled versions of an unreachable vision
And photoshop the images into Barbie doll perfection
Leaving countless women in despair
Because they have hips that are real
Shapes that are round and soft
Curves that flow
Breasts that function and nurture and don’t just titillate
So let’s celebrate the curves of real women
Who aren’t molded in plastic
And whose reality needs no airbrushing
Because real women are eternal
And ideal
David Trudel © 2013
Curves
Ideals are always hard to live up to
Our mainstream ideal of womanhood is a false construct
Dreamt up by gay fashion designers in Paris, London and Rome
Who like the skinny hips of adolescent boys better than voluptuous curves
So they starve the girls into scraped and angled versions of an unreachable vision
And photoshop the images into Barbie doll perfection
Leaving countless women in despair
Because they have hips that are real
Shapes that are round and soft
Curves that flow
Breasts that function and nurture and don’t just titillate
So let’s celebrate the curves of real women
Who aren’t molded in plastic
And whose reality needs no airbrushing
Because real women are eternal
And ideal
David Trudel © 2013
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