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Robin Givhan: Skinny Male Models Aren’t As Controversial As Skinny Female Models
The Cut —
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Prada menswear, spring 2010. NPR recently aired a segment with Robin Givhan and Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive about whether the fashion industry should embrace fantasy or reality, which was really an excuse to talk about skinny models some more. Givhan noted, "I don’t think the average man looks at a ...18 hours ago -
Simple Explanation of the Stupak Amendment
Random Thoughts of a Crazy Liberal —
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If you are curious as to what this Stupak Amendment that everyone has been talking about, this video does a good job of summing it up simply: I got to admit I don’t really understand the argument that Joe brings up (that Catholics don’t want their tax dollars potentially going towards abortions). As Rep. Weiner ...1 day ago -
The Breast Blog
Crossing the Highway —
Authority: 118
someone on shakesville linked to this and i love the idea behind it: Her Life With Boobs i answered this questionnaire and found it really interesting to plumb my thoughts about this issue that is so day to day normal that most of us never think about it. so, here are my answers. please think about sharing ...4 days ago -
Thoughtful
Cheeky Sweetie —
Authority: 118
I’m feeling a bit like a caterpillar going through a metamorphosis lately. Everything seems like it’s shifting and morphing into something new, but the truth is that the layers I’ve built up around me..for protection, out of fear, from frustration, out of hurt..they are falling away and the person that I’ve ...5 days ago -
This Just In: Spanx Can Be Very Embarrassing
The Cut —
Authority: 757
After Oprah named Spanx one of her favorite things, the market for shapewear tripled to $750 million at the end of last year. Women are nuts for Spanx despite the things weve known all along: They are embarrassing if you find yourself wearing them while caught with a man you want to get with; men think theyre insane; ...5 days ago -
7 Giant Red Flags About Women From the Ladies of Big Red Flags Blog
Asylum —
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Filed under: Sex , Dating/Love , Women Were fans of The Little Black Blog of Big Red Flags, where anonymous contributors tell stories about those warning signs they totally spotted but chose to ignore. After collecting dating horror stories from men across the U.S., co-creators Natasha ... Read more ...6 days ago -
Kate WIN-slet her lawsuit against the Daily Mail
Heartless Doll —
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By Andrea Grimes In addition to its day-to-day activities of shaming womens sexuality, bodies, emotional states and personalities , the UKs Daily Mail will now have to pay nearly $50,000 to Kate Winslet, who today won a libel suit against the rag. The Guardian reports: The Oscar-winning ...1 week ago -
Oh Ma Gawd. It’s a Cheeky Scandal.
Cheeky Sweetie —
Authority: 118
If you are one of those people who can’t understand that sometimes good people make questionable decisions, and that sometimes circumstances drive people to do things they wouldn’t otherwise do, you may as well remove me from your reader or bookmarks because you are going to hate me forever after I spill these ...1 week ago -
What this woman wants.
Cheeky Sweetie —
Authority: 118
I certainly can’t pretend to know what other women want. But I finally, finally, since hitting my thirties, have figured out what I want. I know who I want to be, who I am, and for the most part, how to bridge that gap. And I am finally starting to make the hard decisions and [...]1 week ago -
@MartyMankins totally saw me naked, ya’ll.
Cheeky Sweetie —
Authority: 118
I’m not really very body shy…unless I *really* care about what the person that may be seeing me naked thinks of me. But when I’m with my girlfriends, I’ll change in front of them or whatever without much thought. I know my body has many imperfections, but I also know that my friends like me [...]1 week ago -
Kiss My Permanently Fat Ass
Perfectly Cursed Life —
Authority: 124
Weighty issues. Fat lot of good. Other fat-related puns inserted here. No matter how you find a way to bring it up, it’s been on my mind lately: FAT . There have been many reasons for this. One was the fact that a good friend’s husband made an extremely insensitive (and idiotic considering the fact ...2 weeks ago -
The starving scapegoats
feminist blogs —
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by Amanda Marcotte Robin Givhan should get some kind of award for the tone-deaf mean-spiritedness of her defense of a fashion industry that insists on models that are on the brink of starving to death--- and often beyond . Okay, it’s going too far to say Givhan is defending it, but she is far too blase, and ...3 weeks ago -
Robin Givhan: Fashion Models Won’t Get Any Larger Until the Rest of Us Get Smaller
The Cut —
Authority: 757
Robin Givhan thinks the fashion industry has yet again come under unfair fire in the Ralph Lauren Photoshop debacle that reached a fever pitch last week when model Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna said the label fired her for being too fat . Givhan argues that fashion represents an ideal. That ideal, as we as a ...3 weeks ago -
HOT Curves
The Quest for T —
Authority: 124
As an admirer of women, I immediately fell in love with this photo. These are the new "plus size" models as featured in Glamour magazine . Each of the women in the above photograph wears anywhere from a size 12 to a size 16.... and theyre all GORGEOUS. --- Over the weekend, while fall cleaning, I found my size 14 ...3 weeks ago -
Barbie, Catwalk Models Now "Too Fat"
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Its increasingly clear that for many in the fashion world, there are two kinds of women: those about to die from starvation, and fat women. Theres been a disturbing denouement to the controversy over Ralph Laurens overzealous Photoshopping that led to a picture in which a models hips were narrower than her head: The ...3 weeks ago -
Barbie, Catwalk Models Now "Too Fat"
The XX Factor —
Authority: 139
A post by DoubleX writer Amanda Marcotte: Its increasingly clear that for many in the fashion world, there are two kinds of women: those about to die from starvation, and fat women. Theres been a disturbing denouement to the controversy over Ralph Laurens overzealous Photoshopping that led to a picture in which a ...3 weeks ago -
On the Glamour parade
Adolescent Sexuality by Dr. Karen Rayne —
Authority: 108
I wrote a reaction over on The Belly Project about Glamour magazine’s article and accompanying photo spread with “plus-sized” models. Glamour’s rather self-righteous tone and the plethora of too-excited, supposed-society-exploding headlines were all getting to me. The one really good thing to come out ...4 weeks ago -
Mystery Crave
DarcKnyt —
Authority: 124
Ever have a craving for something you couldn’t quite identify?No, no … I’m not pregnant, I promise. I’d be the first to let you all know if I was. But no. I’m just … craving something.Everything sounds sorta good when you’re craving something you can’t identify. I mean, Chinese dumplings sound ...4 weeks ago -
Tracy Anderson No Longer Trains Madonna
The Cut —
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Madonna cut off Tracy Anderson as her personal trainer. The pop star used to spend two hours a day, six days a week with her petite trainer, but confirmed on Ryan Seacrests radio show last week that Anderson is no longer part of her routine. At least Anderson can console herself by doing squats with Gwyneth Paltrow, ...4 weeks ago -
Before and After
The Quest for T —
Authority: 124
1000 words. Pics taken before my surgery and less than a month after my surgery. Swelling is still decreasing. I am VERY happy with the results! Oh and Ive already inspired a reader to do this for herself as well. If you are considering it and want the complete detail of what its like, email me: ...8 weeks ago
