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Tweak says, "We're both so tall..."

Penny (musify) wrote,
@ 2009-10-20 17:11:00

Current mood:

annoyed

You know, I find it very hard to be sympathetic to some members of the fat acceptance movement online when they seem to think it's acceptable to tell a thin woman that she should go and eat a cheeseburger, or when they refer to magazines using bigger women (a fantastic move, IMO) as "featuring 'real' women", or persisting in using descriptors such as "toothpick" and "chicken legs" whilst ranting at anyone who uses fat-related equivalents.

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	makelovestay 2009-10-20 01:33 pm UTC (link)
	I say the cheeseburger thing on occasion, but usually in a more "You're about to starve to death, plz to be go eating some food now, k?" way than a scathing manner. (Reply to this)

greyskyeyes
2009-10-20 05:06 pm UTC (link)

I am guilty of this--but in my (lame) defense, only when someone is like, painfully emaciated. The last time was when I was watching BSG and I saw Tricia Helfer take her shirt off and I literally winced.

On a semi-related note, I just read an interesting article here that relates to what you're talking about. I really agreed with the point they made about how it would be better to just feature women of different sizes like it was no big deal rather than having it be like, "OMG LOOK WHAT WE'RE DOING ISN'T THIS GREAT?!"

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