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Hello! I LOVE this poster. I feel it should say it all to the women out there who are determined to keep up with Barbie, the doll. As an avid feminist, I find it maddening that women expect to be taken seriously, in terms of equal pay, career advancement, control over their own bodies etc, and yet many sit around talking about the size of their thighs, butts and stomachs. I don't know for sure but I highly doubt that Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Sandra Day O'Connor had these types of conversations over lunch. Clara Barton, Marie Curie, and all of the women suffragettes, for example, seemed to have more on their minds than how they looked. Ladies, it's time to man up. When was the last time you heard a man complaining about the size of his thighs or the size of his tummy or his inability to fit into his "skinny" jeans? If you have, I wonder how seriously you would take him if he next said he working on a definitive cure for cancer? Would you like to be involved with a man who is constantly obsessing about his looks and making this a topic of conversation? How would you feel if while looking at a dinner menu he made comments about how many calories a given entree is or decided to just have a salad because he is watching his manly figure? I for one would be incredulous and bored out of my mind and think that he was quite shallow and uninteresting. I also feel the same way about women who choose to have similar conversations with each other. I feel it is a given that an intelligent person would be cognisant of the fact that a person should get a reasonable amount of exercise, and eat healthy non processed food. Why make these things a topic of conversation when there are so many other interesting things to learn about another person and so many ideas to share.
