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roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:37 PM Jun 2014

I love this woman: I wear a bikini because ...

fuck you.

LOL!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-mangiacotti/i-wear-a-bikini-because-fck-you_b_5439511.html

Here are the top six reasons why I, as a 43-year-old, size 12, mother of four, woman with thunder thighs, feel totally justified in rocking a two-piece.

1. I don't give a sh*t.

I actually do not exist for your viewing pleasure, and your ideas about who should and should not be seen in a bikini are zero percent my concern. I have not always been married to the wonderful, supportive, man among men, husband/editor that I am now married to. I was once married to a man who said things like:

"They really should not make bikinis in any size over 8."

Now, I have not been a size 8 since I was about 8 years old -- so this was kind of a dick move on his part. It also confirmed my suspicions that people who make "rules" about how other people should treat their bodies are best left alone -- far away from any people who may inadvertently offend them.

I also have sisters who regularly say things like:

"She has no business being in a bikini."

Well, lucky for me I am not wearing a bikini to drum up business.

I was on the beach in Miami once when a 300-pound grandma walked happily down the beach in a brightly colored two-piece. This was intensely disturbing to a group of vacationing suburban women talking about yoga addiction, shame eating and jeggings. There were gasps, there were sighs and there was one Xanax-deprived woman so distraught, crying out:

"That is just not right."

It is a bathing suit, people. Perhaps we should all just relax.

There are five more reasons but she had me at fuck you. LOL! I love this woman.

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I love this woman: I wear a bikini because ... (Original Post) roguevalley Jun 2014 OP
That's really funny! Thanks! Suich Jun 2014 #1
I have always admired women like that Skittles Jun 2014 #2
#5 is the most important reason MissHoneychurch Jun 2014 #3

MissHoneychurch

(33,600 posts)
3. #5 is the most important reason
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 02:23 AM
Jun 2014

5. I have daughters.
I want to show them a woman comfortable in her body, who is active right alongside them. A woman who's not sitting poolside under a big cover-up, because anything less might be considered inappropriate.


for that lady!!

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