Ladies, Are You Comfortable In Your Own Skin?
January 22, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Kari "Cruziiie" Cruz 
Today's post comes your way via one of our male readers seeking advice. Please read this with an open mind and give him some honest feedback! It is MUCH appreciated...
I met a really attractive and intelligent woman at a party a few weeks ago. It was a public event at an art gallery. She was a high school teacher in her early thirties. We had been talking for a good half hour and really seemed to be hitting it off. We had even made tentative plans to meet for coffee sometime.
Then, things suddenly went downhill. I commented that she had a “nice, full, hourglass figure”. I thought she would take it as a compliment but instead she became deeply offended. She snapped, “Oh really….well perhaps I should do some plus size modeling!” I went into damage control mode and tried to clarify my comments but I think I only exacerbated things when I used the term “healthy”. With a look of complete disgust, WHAP!, she slapped my face and departed.
I will never forget those agonizing moments in the immediate aftermath, as I was standing there alone rubbing my cheek, drawing some judgemental stares from onlookers. Needless to say, it was not my proudest moment, LOL.
She had the classic figure of a 50’s pinup - large bust, narrow waist, shapely hips/legs. I guess she had interpreted “hourglass” as meaning big/overweight/full figured. I just thought it meant shapely and well proportioned.
When I told a female friend about this she shook her head and said it was never a good idea to comment on a woman’s figure, even if I thought it was complimentary. What do you think about this?
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50s Pin-Up,
Body Image,
Hourglass Figure,
Pin-Up,
Plus Size,
Weight,
health,
women in
Health,
La Famila 














Reader Comments (1)
The girl must of been white and the writer is black... Just sayin'