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To: one_less who wrote (235969)	7/11/2007 2:04:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think American women feel worse about themselves than women in many other countries- and there was a study on that, but I can't find it now. Now there are many reasons for this dissatisfaction, and American women are fatter than the women in many other industrialized countries, but it is also true that the standard of rail thin beauty is not as accepted in many other countries. I'm sure you remember when Spain (I think it was Spain) insisted that models have a healthy BMI- that they could not be "too" thin. That's an acceptable thing to do, imo. I think there is disappointment on all sides because of the media. Women's sexuality is poorly handled in movies and on TV. I agree with you that this causes dissatisfaction for everyone. Men want the nymphos they see in the movies, and women think maybe they ought to be those nymphos, but can't figure out how to do it, and get pleasure from it. There is a huge difference in movies made by men and movies made by women, in terms of how women's sexuality, and satisfaction with sex, is portrayed. It's one of the more interesting aspects of having more women writers and directors. I thought the "Oh" in Ohio was one example of this new focus on the women's side of sex- although I have bo idea if Billy Kent is a man or woman. I was told the movie was directed by a woman, but Billy could be either. The movie kind of missed the mark, in terms of humor, but it was dead on for subject material, imo.