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Word of the Day: Hourglass figure
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when society told us it was ideal for a woman to have an hourglass figure.
Having an hourglass figure means to be shaped like an hourglass and have a tiny waist.
The truth is that most women don’t have an hourglass figure, just like most men don’t have a body like Hercules.
To be sincere here, many men are shaped like a snake that has eaten a basketball – thin on top (pun intended), skinny on the bottom and round in the middle.
Thankfully, we are slowly coming to realize that it is entirely OK to have a healthy figure, your figure, the one you were born with.
If a woman does have an hourglass figure, that is great for her; if she doesn’t, it is even better.
It takes all kinds to make a world, so why should we want to look how other people tell us we should?
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 75.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.