Mae West Goals?

“If anyone is interested in curves.”

We are now entering the summer season.

Showing more skin.

Revealing clothing.

“Bikini Bodies.”

You know all about it. You have heard the campaigns. You have seen the commercials “getting ready for summer.”

You have felt the pressure. How much of it was self-imposed?

I recently came across this post about the famous sex symbol, Mae West.

“If anyone is interested in curves.”

Oh, where DO we start?

When I was a little girl, I became fascinated with a Mae West doll. I believe it was depicting her from her classic film role in “My Little Chickadee.”

She was dressed in a form-fitting black dress. Just decked out, like this…

I loved this doll. I didn’t know much about Mae West, especially about her controversial sexuality. And I didn’t know about “her diet.”

It was a strange thing, looking at this doll, having recently undergone my first attempts at dieting.

But it didn’t occur to me to view her as “fat.”

Now, decades later, there are several people who would view her as “just that.”

These people, therefore, would probably look at “her diet” as a complete failure for obtaining “the desirable curves.”

Curves.

What is the criteria for curves?

How small? How big? How curvy versus angular?

What’s it all code for, anyway?

Where are the judgments within that code?

“O my dove…let me see your form…for your form is lovely.”

Song of Solomon 2:14

I bring up this scripture a lot. It highlights how Beauty, Form, and Our Very Being, Through The Most High’s Eyes, don’t change. His Esteem of us is fixed.

It doesn’t fluctuate with trends. It’s not contingent on fad diet attempts, and their “successful execution.”

And I’m quite certain that Elohim, Our Loving Father, never look at any of us, using the adjective “fat.”

“If anyone is interested in curves.”

He looks beyond “curves.” He sees the deep, more meaningful nature of us: our forms.

Spirit, Soul, Mind, Body.

“If anyone is interested in THAT?”

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