It always needs saying

[bladespark]

http://crooksandliars.com/node/34099/print

I've said pretty much exactly what's in this article before. But given how very few people are saying it, compared to the massive bombardment from the "other side" it can always stand to be said again.

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

LIKE!!

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks for the link.

[komickrazi.livejournal.com]

*nods*

[beavisfreak.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed.

[wolfmare.livejournal.com]

I'm a size 16, and you know... Suddenly I don't feel quite so bad about that. Compared to those emaciated...things... that pass for models, I think I'd rather be 'fat' and happy then starve myself to death.

Besides, I take martial arts classes. I could kick their scrawny butts :D

[ladysilvercat.livejournal.com]

I have never understood what people found attractive about being so skinny. I have a photo of my grandfather taken after his release from a WW2 POW camp and he looked very similar to the "perfect" models in your article.

[aurora77]

I know some absolutely beautiful women with gorgeous curves, and they're larger yet than that plus-sized model. They have what we've dubbed "the body of an earth goddess". I don't want the stick-legged, rib-showing, angular body of the runway models. It's scary!

I'd rather see models/actresses like Christina Hendricks. And she had trouble finding a designer dress for the red carpet:

The curvaceous "Mad Men" star, voted Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire, last week told the UK's Daily Record that not one "designer in town will loan me a dress."

It's frustrating. A lot of clothing lines don't want to admit that larger sizes exist or that women might not be shaped like the hourglass they're designing for. I'm smaller than the average American woman, and yet I'm still having trouble with clothing. I can't imagine being larger. :/ But neither can I imagine ever dropping down below a size 8 and maybe a 10 might be more realistic.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I've been an 8. Been a 6 even, and at that point I was over-stressed, not eating, and rather underweight. Some people might be naturally skinny, but the vast majority of us would probably die of starvation before we got anywhere near the "ideal" model size.

[aurora77]

I was an 8 when I was at a healthy weight, fit, and reasonably active. I was never less than a 4, if even that low, even when I was so sick I dropped to 94 pounds.

[silveradept]

It always needs saying. Starving yourself should not be a pre-requisite to working in fashion or modeling. Or any other profession.

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

To people commenting with stuff about ew skinny and the like: Any negative/body-policing is the wrong way to go about countering the fashion industry's bullshit, because hearing that kinda stuff doesn't help if you're too skinny and in a bad headspace. It just makes you feel crappier about yourself, which is part of the problem in the first place.

Better to say that the fashion industry is full of crap and people are most beautiful at whatever weight suits them and leaves them happy, you know?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I agree, but... Well, some of the prettiest people I know are "thin" and some very beautiful people are "fat" but there IS a point at which either extreme becomes unattractive. Concentration camp victims are genuinely unattractive. That's not "skinny" though, that's "about to die of starvation." Likewise "too fat to even walk" is not pretty either.

I don't think any of the comments are trying to put down body types, they're trying to express that somebody who has starved themselves to the brink of death is doing something fundamentally wrong.

[xiaron.livejournal.com]

Years ago my mother was a model, and she was considered amazingly beautiful. By today's standards she never would have never made it because she would have been considered 'too fat' like Jen Hunter. What the hell is wrong with the world today? Seriously? We learn more about health and nutrition, and think starving to death for beauty is a good idea?