A RANT: Can folks stop calling these women 'Plus-size models'!!!!

[LynneSin]

8. Really??

A woman who is size 12 is hardly plus size. She's around the national average here in the USA. Plus size has always denoted a woman in the modeling industry outside the 0-4 size, which is far below the norm here in the USA.

Why do we even have to refer to her as 'plus-size'? Why can't we just call her a model? Why must we be all glee that Ralph Lauren or anyone happens to hire a model whose weight is more to the norm of everyday women?

The modeling industry has had a long history of turning perfectly healthy women into eating disorder walking sticks because of their insistance that these girls achieve a size that is difficult for most women to obtain. And for the young girls & women who read the magazines it builts alot of body insecurity.

Wouldn't it be better to just call them all models and stop trying to justify using someone who, although normal weighted for real life is still larger then fashion industry norms, 'plus-size'. Plus size is someone like me who shops in the women's department where there is a 'W' next to all my sizes.

Sure they the fashion industry can call them all they want but it just plays into that long-running standard that extreme thinness is the only thing deemed beautiful in the fashion industry. That's just outdated thinking.