Melissa McCarthy's Elle Cover Controversy...

Here we go again, with picking apart women. Recently, there have been some ruffled feathers over an Elle Magazine cover. Apparently, actress/comedian Melissa McCarthy is on its November Women in Hollywood issue. Anyway, fans having been voicing their unhappiness about the magazine’s decision to photograph the actress outfitted in an overcoat, with her face partially covered by her hair.

It’s a stark contrast to the business as usual approach concerning other cover girls, most of them more scantily clad. I’ve seen the discussed photograph; it’s beautiful. And I, for one, am happy to see a “real woman” on such a notoriously selective magazine cover. Do I wish Ms. McCarthy was more of the rule than the exception? Yes. But, c’mon, Rome is not exactly built in a day. In spite of some figures of “diverse body type,” most of the time, the image out there is an extremely thin one. I’m hoping we’ll experience women, from all body types, sizes and colors and it won’t be such a big deal. It will be just “business as usual,” the fact that we’re celebrating God’s inherent Truth about each one of us: “O my dove…your form is lovely.” Song of Solomon 2:14 That includes every single one of our forms, on a magazine cover or not! Copyright © 2013 by Sheryle Cruse