Real women? Please!

What is all this bullshit about women wearing no make up in photographs and how they are real? Please!!!

The term 'curvy' to explain apparent big women? Since when is a size 10 curvy? I am a size 12 to 14 and I am curvy. What curves are on a size 10 woman? Besides the usual bumps (boobs, ass and a nose)? I am a healthy sized woman.

With curves that have been complemented in the past by women and, yes of course, men but this isn't want matters. What matters is that when I look in the mirror, I like what I see. I might feel some days that being five kilos lighter would smooth some things out but hey, what are you going to do! I take care of myself, I eat well (yes I eat chocolate) and I am curvy. Rah! I am just tired of seeing these women (with no curves) being described as curvy woman. WTF! Please. Stop bullshitting me.

I am getting a bit annoyed at the term curvy or real woman used in the media! What the hell do they know! They project an image (which is fake) and then tell me its real. I know its real, that's why I buy magazines. I don't real. I look in the mirror, walk down the street, go into my office and see real women.

Magazines and media are about fake. Fake writing, fake pictures, fake everything!

You can't read a magazine and not see another mediocre journalist quoting 'sources say' when its made up! Its bullshit! I know that though. Unfortunately some women and men don't. This is what scares me because most of them will be under 18 years, prone to criticism and bullying and still trying to find their place in the world.

Who the hell wants to see Joanna Griggs, Rikki Coulter-blah and the Sea Patrol blondie talk about how they were uplifted by not wearing make up, and feel they can connect with audience. I am being sarcastic and rolling my eyes at the same time.

There are some days I don't wear make up. Am I making inroads for women around the world? Why thank you. That's flattening but bullshit. Women do it every day. What makes these women, in the magazines, so special? Because what, they are 'famous'? I hardly think the women featured in this magazine can be described as women making inroads in the magazine world.

So why do we allow these magazines – tabloid at best – to tell me that these women are empowering? Walk out onto the street and see women who are empowering.

These are women who take care of their children, women who care for someone who is sick, has a disability or in need or women who say no to sitting by and doing, and doing something in the community. These are women who are empowering. Not women without make up!

Magazines, movies, television etc are fake. That's why we looked to them. We know what is happening in the world. We want an escape. Not reality. Not supposed real women! I can see that every day.

What I want is for those mediums to stop trying to be something that they are not, and just accept what they are... tomorrow's fish and chip paper.