Comment on The West, 9 April 2005, p.62
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"Camilla Parker Bowles has been said to pack the stylistic punch of a dilapidated Yorkshire pudding." Well la-di-dah. It's not just, "who cares?" There's also the question of, "how two-faced do we want to be?"
There are regular articles -- in The West as well as in less news-oriented magazines -- about the pressure to attain an unattainable ideal of body and fashion. On one page we are shown pictures of pencil-thin models with enormous breasts, on the next we are told of the dangers of trying to look like those same models. Here's how you can look like a supermodel, exhortations to spend on plastic surgery, make-up, constantly changing fashionable clothes... followed by warnings on the dangers of doing exactly that.
Then along comes a woman who has -- so we are told -- no style, no looks, no figure... probably not even any plastic surgery. Yet she has kept the love of one man for more than 30 years!
The article in The West gave advice on how Camilla Parker Bowles should tart herself up for the wedding. It did stop short of suggesting plastic surgery... Idiotic!
Okay, keeping the love of one man is not every woman's dream. But it does show that the woman has some good points. Let's forget about moulding Camilla into the standard, plastic, supermodel image.
Instead, please consider those who do want a successful personal life, rather than a glamourous surface image. Let's have an article that explains why Camilla Parker Bowles is okay just as she is. Perhaps we could even learn from her success... but let's not assume that we should all slavishly copy what she does.
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