Heh. I love jezebel but not for its supposed feminism but because they are my trashy gossip site of choice :)
Side note - their insistence that if you are skeletally thin or morbidly obese it's still OK healthwise drives me insane. Yes, being somewhat overweight or underweight does not present any problems. However, if you are 300 lb or 80 lb, guess hat - you have health problems. /end rant
Well it might be ok healthwise, at least in the sense that if you're 300 lbs it doesn't mean you're gonna keel over any day, and if you're 80 lbs but small, it doesn't mean your periods are about to stop, either. It might mean that, or not. Or it might mean you're recovering from cancer/any other ailment, and so your size is a symptom of other things that are being treated and taking precedence at the time, and is not the issue in and of itself.
Well, they have this "snap judgment" feature, which is basically a photo they put up without any text to go along with it for discussion. I noticed that over a span of several days, most of the photos put up went something like: cheerleader, ballerina, ballerina, model, dancer, celebrity in a pretty dress, gymnast. (I can't find all of them now so have another random snap judgment photo.) I found it irritating that despite the almost incessant features on size acceptance etc going on at the time, pretty much all the women they chose to feature were conventionally pretty, slender women, generally in conventionally attractive, feminine poses, of the kind I'd expect to see on any other website. Many of them were athletes, but again, the athletes they chose to disproportionately feature at the time were ones that, skilled as their bodies are, are ones whose art/sport involved in a primarily aesthetically pleasing presentation of the body. (I wouldn't say that a gymnast's sport involves an aesthetic presentation of the body in the same
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Apparently. I dunno, many of the comments on this article are plain-out saying "this content does not belong here," and they haven't been banned for "complaining about what we choose to post."
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Side note - their insistence that if you are skeletally thin or morbidly obese it's still OK healthwise drives me insane. Yes, being somewhat overweight or underweight does not present any problems. However, if you are 300 lb or 80 lb, guess hat - you have health problems. /end rant
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http://jezebel.com/5582641/i-want-you-to-look-at-my-tits-because-theyre-fabulous
Although one commenter does follow up her post with "don't ban me." There's basically no real standard.
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