more to love

I was browsing around the interweb, as I often do when I have too much time on my hands, and I came across an advert for this new show on Fox called 'More to Love.'

The trailer for the show starts out by entertaining the usual schpeal about how the average American woman is a size 14/16, while the average reality tv show contestant is a size 2. The tag line is -"what kind of reality is that?" To mend the apparent body gap on television, Fox has gathered up a bunch of plus sized women in the hopes of finding love, and intends to match them up with an equally hefty male. I find this disgusting. To me, it comes across as saying that the only way larger women are going to find love is to segregate them from the thin women.

As expected, one of the girls walks up to the eligible bachelor and tells him, "it's so great to see a man who likes regular sized women." Frankly, I don't understand this. Fox is making it out to seem like all plus sized women are just desperately seeking approval from the first man that will accept their apparent shortcomings. I am not one to look at a woman and think, "well, she's pretty, but she doesn't look like my garden rake so I can't like her/befriend her/speak to her, etc. Thankfully the majority of the world isn't as shallow as Fox would like to make them out to be.

These women participating in the show are teeming with their own detractors, and may even feel hip siding with the backlash against thin women. If all these women want is to be recognized as equal competitors in the dating world, then why purport the cycle? It's as pertinent and necessary now more than ever to step out of this whole body conscious superficial society. I wish that every woman knew that they are beautiful in their own way. Because I am optimistic enough to believe that, regardless of societies notions, women will adapt and learn to look over their personal dignity being compromised by constant objectification.