> Subject: FW: Happy Beautiful Woman Month!!!

-Yeah right - sure...

> IT'S BEAUTIFUL WOMAN MONTH & TAG YOU'RE IT!

-Gosh, this has been a long month - I know I got this chain in the past, and not always in the same month! And email tag only works for me if it's content originally written by a friend or acquaintance, not just forwarded.

> Did you know that it's Beautiful Women Month?

-Did you know that is bull?

> Well, it is and that means you and me. I'm supposed
> to send this to
> BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, and you are one of them!!!

-So glad to be one of many many many many people of the female persuasion in somebody's address book for junkmail! NOT! Don't give me this "You are beautiful" stuff. I'm too smart and self-assured to fall for that ploy and pass on another useless, erronious chain. Oh, and I don't know you. So sorry one of my friends and one of their friends, and one of theirs, fell for this dreck.

> Facts on Figures;

-'Facts'? Probably...NOT. You should always make sure they really are 'facts' before making that claim.

> There are 3 billion women who don't look like
> supermodels and only eight
> who do.

-And you know this, how? Did you measure every woman including every model in the world? Anybody can toss out a fabricated stat and claim it's fact.

> Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.

-Not necessarily.

-And while on the subject, Marilyn Monroe was not the model Tinkerbell was based on - that was Margaret Kerry. Marilyn didn't have an extra toe on one or both feet.

> If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on
> all fours due to her
> proportions.

-Oh really? Care to explain Dolly Parton then?

> The average woman weighs 144 lb. and wears between
> a 12-14.

-So?

> One out of every four college aged women has an
> eating! disorder.

-Probably...Not. Did you pry in to the lives of every female college student at every college to come up with this? Did you also include universities in these uhm, studies?

> The models in the magazines are airbrushed -- not
> perfect!

-And you know this, how? And it matters, why?

> A psychological study in 1995 found that three
> minutes spent looking at a
> fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel
> depressed, guilty, and
> shameful.

-Oh really? And you know this because? Which psychological study? Conducted by whom and which company or organization? Where was it conducted? How many women? Who were they? What age group? What other contributing factors were observed or missed to come up with these uhm, stats?

> Models twenty years ago weighed 8% less than the
> average woman. Today they
> weigh 23% less.

-Oh? Well, not my problem.

> ~Beauty of a Woman~
> The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she
> wears,
> The figure she carries, or the way she combs her
> hair.

-Or the chain letters she forwards, thinking that's how to show she cares.

> The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes,
> Because that is the doorway to her heart,
> The place where love resides.

-And not in a dubious email containing only half-truthes, personal opinions and bogus stats and outright lies.

> The beauty of a woman Is not in a facial mole,
> But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her
> soul.

-And is not to be found in an email forward that's full of holes.

> It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
> The passion that she shows.
> The beauty of a woman
> With passing years -- only grows.

-And grows and grows, without these useless email chain letter snows. With the sending of forwards, beauty slows.

> An English professor wrote the words, "Woman
> without her man is nothing,"
> on the blackboard and directed the students to
> punctuate it correctly.

-Which english professer was that? Where and when did he or she write that? What level of students? Freshmen, sophomores, seniors? Names, place, date and time, please.

> The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is
> nothing."

-Yeah, right, sure...

> The women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is
> nothing."

-Yeah, right, sure. Where are the papers proving this?

> The Images of Mother
> 4 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mommy can do anything!
> 8 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
> 12 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mother doesn't really know
> quite everything. 14 YEARS
> OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn't know that,
> either. 16 YEARS OF AGE ~
> Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned. 18 YEARS OF
> AGE ~ That old woman?
> She's way out of date! 25 YEARS OF AGE ~ Well, she
> might know a little bit
> about it. 35 YEARS OF AGE ~ Before we decide, let's
> get Mom's opinion. 45
> YEARS OF AGE ~ Wonder what Mom would have thought
> about it? 65 YEARS OF
> AGE ~ Wish I could talk it over with Mom.

-That's about the most believable part of this chain - if you were, like me, fortunate enough to grow up in a good relationship with your mother, and maintain one until she's passed on. But it isn't like that for everyone..

-Here we come to the crux of this thing, the "Pass it on!" which is the ultimate goal of every chain letter originator! You see, this chain is designed to: 1. flatter you for being a beautiful woman. 2. Then it goes on telling you that it isn't so bad or uncommon to not look like a supermodel, with a few erronious 'facts' tossed in for good measure.
3. Then it packs in a few silly pieces of psycho-babble about how women feel ashamed and not beautiful enough, and how a supposed experiment by an obscure English professer proved that each gender regards itself as better. If all that hasn't put you in a forwarding mood, 4. a couple of rather cutesy little poems, to which no author has been attributed, are inserted. Well of course, poems will do it every time! Only then, comes the hard sell, and I am not buying it. the "Send it on to all the beautiful women and boost their egos!"

> ***Please do not send this to at least five phenomenal
> women today in celebration
> of Women's History Month.

-Huh? I thought it was 'Beautiful Women Month' Now it's 'Women's History Month"? I don't get it, what's up with the inconsistancy? Which is it? 'Beautifully Historical Women Month' maybe?

> If you do, something good will not happen.... YOU will not boost another woman's
> self-esteem -especially if she has gotten this several times from unrelated email sources. She will see this for what it is, just another chain letter, this one attempting to play on both the wish to boost up our friends and be boosted ourselves. You can better boost her self esteem by writing her a personal note.
-Or you might boost it with this forward, but only if this was the first time you and your forwarding friend ever saw it, and then only because you and she were fool enough to pass on chain letters and take them for truth.

-Oh, and there are chain letter forwards if this type designed to get the men forwarding too. Only in their case, it's "why it's better to be a man".

NEWSFLASH: It's not the gender that makes a person better or beautiful, it's the personality. So, assuming everybody's equal until somebody does something to earn admiration and respect, or get noriety, infamy and endmies, let's cut the gender cliches along with the chain mail and start sending stuff we actually took the time to write!

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