Three cheers

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Pardon my enthusiasm, but I want to give 3 cheers.

1 cheer for cellulite, disproportionate halves, stretch marks, discolorations, weird moles, funky hair growth, tatoos, piercings, folds, blotches, freckles, pockmarks, skin tags and scars.

1 cheer for sagging breasts, flat chests, big naturals, floppy buttocks, flat butts, shelf booties, flabby arms, cankles, rolls, pudge, skinny limbs, curves, no curves, barrel chests, buddha bellies, six packs, full lips, thin lips, wrinkles, and creases.

1 cheer for anyone who loves women and who refuses to be seduced by re-touched photographs, clever makeup tricks, skillful design and tailoring, expert hairdressing, blurred lenses, and merciful lighting into thinking that women-- all women-- should look like Photoshopped-to-within-an-inch-of-their-lives advertising models, carefully molded and crafted and edited celebritis in flawless publicity shots, and airbrushed strippers and porn stars. For those who realize that this notion of perfection is as real as unicorns. For those who rage against the constant onslaught just to lash out and say "fuck you!" to the media, magazines, and moviemakers who make your woman feel that if she doesn't look like the women that she sees staring blankly back at her from the glossy pages of Vogue, of Cosmo, of Elle, then she must not be one.

3 cheers in all.

3 cheers for those who love every inch of a woman's body, just the way she is...

3 cheers for unapologetic lust despite, no, in celebration of so-called flaws...

3 cheers for genuine appreciation of any woman kind enough to share her body with you...

3 cheers for those unashamed of their ability to accept every woman just the way she fucking is...

3 cheers... for not allowing yourself to be the one that says, "She's a 7, but not a 10; I'm holding out for a 10" as if 10s are all around, just waiting for you to ravish them.

Her scent,her laugh, her smile, her presence, her radiance, her beauty... she is a woman. She is all woman. And real women are simply... amazing.

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