Article on feederism.

Sometimes they lie.

Also, for those who don’t know? America is 5’1″.

Those cameras that make those teensy little actor boys you swoon over who are really puny in real life look six feet tall? Those same cameras make her look LARGER because she is SHORTER.

The level of critical thinking skills in absentia is pretty severe.

To me BFD has always been about acceptance (which includes shuning the intolerant) and not pushing an anti-thin/fat agenda. (That kind of all or nothing thinking is why some people think support or even tolerance of gays and lesbians is the same thing as being anti-heterosexual.) Just because people support actresses like AF does not mean they are unsympathetic to an actress who might engage in unhealthy practices in response to pressure to be skinny. The call for acceptance of people of all sizes–or at least media accuracy in depicting the range of BMI that is normal/healthy–can benefit women like Nicole Ritchie as well as women like Jenifer Hudson. (I am biased to the extent I would rather look like the latter.)

Can’t we all agree that the only women who deserve our scorn (besides the shaming and intolerant) are those who are super thin yet eat a ton of food? Kidding–I have friends like that too.

Nice attempt to CYA, ASL, but you are dead to me. And thank goodness you told all the “newbies” they were idiots. That should keep your readership down. I know how pesky it can be when you draw new views. Maybe you should password protect to keep out the uncool kids.

Not the least of those differences is that we as a culture (or at least the segment of this culture that this blog represents) love to hate people like Elizabeth Hurley but totally heart America Ferrara.

I don’t excuse “big fat sloppy pig comments” either, but picking fights with blogs that make them feels like chasing windmills to me, and America Ferrara has plenty of fans to defend her. But if we willfully overlook the fact that even someone as totally fabulous and girl-crush-tastic as Ferrara can say things that make arbritary and misinformed distinctions between healthy and unhealthy and fat and thin and dieting and not-dieting then I think the battle we’re fighting is a hollow one.

But still, many of them annoy me, because their type of irony is on the junior high level. Snide, not funny, and often perpetuating stereotypes.

However, I clearly wasn’t addressing America’s “joking” use of “anorexia,” but rather your idea that we should ‘pick our battles”–which implies that, yes, we should just somehow learn to ignore *some* of the insults that are so easily hurled at us “big fat sloppy pig” women, or any of the countless messages or advertising that tries to teach us to hate ourselves for being too fat or too skinny, too light or too dark skinned, and so on and so on. So, yeah. Those careless words that denigrate women for their size or looks *are* my battleground.

Because that’s true, I can recognize that there is a difference between America saying, “I could never be anorexic,” and, for example, Elizabeth Hurley saying that she’d kill herself is she were as fat as Marilyn.

Plus it implies that people with eating disorders are NOT “our homegirls,” not “one of us.” Again, I don’t think Ferrara is being literal here when she says “anorexic,” but just because I agree with the general sentiment doesn’t mean I don’t want to take her choice of words to task. We can jump on the blatantly mean-spirited words all we want, but other words have consequences, too, even in the context of a statement we agree with.

Not that I think any of this makes the ASL comments okay, but if we’re talking about the power of words here, we shouldn’t just attack certain statmeents and choose to ignore others.