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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI 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.
Suich
(10,642 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)heck, people like that
more power to them
MissHoneychurch
(33,600 posts)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!!