What Makes A Women Beautiful?

Last Thursday, it was brought up in class how different pant sizes are for women and how much easier it is to buy pants for guys, because all they have to do is measure their waist and length of their leg. Differently, when women shop for jeans, it could be anything from 00 to 14, 16, I am not even sure how big it goes up to, but its so crazy the amount of different sizes women have to choose from, in my opinion. Yes, like many of the other women in the world, I am really happy when I can fit into pants that are size 2, because I feel like I am fitting in. But now thinking about it, I am fitting into what society wants to me be. If the sizes would remain the same from store to store, I don't think I would mind that much, but the sizes are all over the place. A size 2 in one store could be a size 6 or 8 in another one. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy going shopping, but I wish sometimes I could do my shopping faster, as the guys can do, by just finding my size and that will be right for all the other pants I want (or skirts or shorts). The women are brought up to want to aim for the perfect body. Which, what we figured out in one of the first days of classes was, being tall, having a slim waist, big boobs and butt, and long hair. And so no matter if where we come from in the world, or at least in the United States, many of us strive for those attributes (or some of them) no matter what we look like. Our aim is to fit into those small sizes of pants, or other clothing so we can "prove" to the world how good we look. But now looking back many years ago, the "hot and sexy" women weren't these small skinny sizes that they are now. Marylin Monroe, wasn't a 00, or 2 size, and she was still known to be that ideal women. So what happened? Who decided that what a women should look like to change so drastically? Knowing that I will never be tall used to bother me a lot, because everyone always seems to be towering over me, but I have learned to love how I am. That doesn't mean that I still try and stay fit, and do want to have a "nice body" so to say, but I know that having a size 00 won't decide if I am beautiful or not. Who I am decides that, and I am happy that I have realized that, and glad that I have stopped trying to be who I wasn't.