Women's Clothing Rant

So I don't normally like to rant online, but this just made me feel so bad about myself today I feel like I must share. 

My whole life I have been the tall thin girl with the skinny legs, I've never had to worry about dieting or exercising all that much I was just genetically blessed.  While I am by no means "fat"  I am at the heaviest I have ever been and I'm not feeling very good about myself. 

Today as I had nothing better to do and I have WAY to much clothing, I decided to give some things away...this was a mistake.  1) you should never try on clothing when you aren't feeling good about  yourself 2) women's sizing sucks balls.  yes I said it.  It is royally fucked up and it made me feel even worse about my body. Here's why...

I am 5'10" and 150 lbs.  Which makes me the exact healthy weight for my height, I shouldn't way much more than this, but I am healthy where I am.  When people look at me they guess that I am a size 4.  Boy are they wrong.

I tried on all of my pants in all different sizes ranging from 6-10.  None of the 8 would even button and the 10s all felt extremely tight, awkward and uncomfortable.  But I put on the 6 (white house black market) jeans and they fit great, not too tight, not too loose they made me feel pretty, and they were the smallest size, yet everything else that was SUPPOSEDLY BIGGER made me feel like and over stuffed sausage bursting out of its casing. 

Shirts were even worse,  Smalls fitting great in things I picked up at target or old navy, while Larges and even Extra Larges from more highend shops had me bursting out at the seams. 

The average size in America is 14, but is that a 14 at WH/BM: Where a 6 fits me ideally or at Gap: where I cannot button an 8 or mountain hardware or columbia where not even a 10 fit-- and excuse me but most of my athletic friends have an ass, hips and thunder thighs, and your clothing certainly didn't allow for mine--which isn't much at all.

12-14 is an extra large at most stores, but it is the average American woman.  How am I supposed to NOT have body issues?

I felt horrible about myself tonight, so I went and worked out for an hour, before settling into bed, and working out isn't bad, but having clothing companies make me feel so bad about myself it's the only thing I can think to do is.