Comments on: Feminist, Fat, and Fabulous Blog: Real Women Don’t Need Mags http://lipmag.com/uncategorised/feminist-fat-and-fabulous-blog-real-women-dont-need-mags/ The magazine for girls who think, feel, create, speak out, live. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:33:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: madeleine http://lipmag.com/uncategorised/feminist-fat-and-fabulous-blog-real-women-dont-need-mags/comment-page-1/#comment-2115 madeleine Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:08:53 +0000 http://lipmag.com/?p=1296#comment-2115 I am a model, ha. I'm 14 and i am size 14-16 NOT 8. I have freckles and DON'T wear make-up. I am white, yes. I am nicely tanned, yes. i have bright blue-green eyes, yes. but i have scraggly hair and obvious scars. I am the second-most popular model in my region. I love people who accept people. I am a model, ha. I’m 14 and i am size 14-16 NOT 8. I have freckles and DON’T wear make-up. I am white, yes. I am nicely tanned, yes. i have bright blue-green eyes, yes. but i have scraggly hair and obvious scars. I am the second-most popular model in my region. I love people who accept people.

]]> By: Sonya http://lipmag.com/uncategorised/feminist-fat-and-fabulous-blog-real-women-dont-need-mags/comment-page-1/#comment-2056 Sonya Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:36:16 +0000 http://lipmag.com/?p=1296#comment-2056 I definitely know the feeling. Even though I know it's lighting, tricks and illusions, I was still feeling like I didn't have anything together. I didn't have the wonderful career, social life, clothes, man, body etc etc etc and it was getting to me (again, even though I completely knew intellectually that it was mostly smoke and mirrors, I still felt inferior). I still consume some magazines from time to time, as I just can't help looking at pretty things, but not as much as I used to, and with far more of a critical eye than before. Mags are expensive!! I definitely know the feeling. Even though I know it’s lighting, tricks and illusions, I was still feeling like I didn’t have anything together. I didn’t have the wonderful career, social life, clothes, man, body etc etc etc and it was getting to me (again, even though I completely knew intellectually that it was mostly smoke and mirrors, I still felt inferior). I still consume some magazines from time to time, as I just can’t help looking at pretty things, but not as much as I used to, and with far more of a critical eye than before.

Mags are expensive!!

]]> By: Kath http://lipmag.com/uncategorised/feminist-fat-and-fabulous-blog-real-women-dont-need-mags/comment-page-1/#comment-2055 Kath Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:24 +0000 http://lipmag.com/?p=1296#comment-2055 I used to be the biggest magazine junkie too. I bought them all, fashion, music, gossip, womens, family. But more and more they started to make me feel like I was somehow less than those women in the pages. And so I stopped. I feel better for it. And it saves me a motza too - mags are expensive! The only two I like to buy now are Post Modern Ink, which is very "real person" oriented and certainly positive of body image messages, and Popular Mechanics, which feeds my nerd brain! I used to be the biggest magazine junkie too. I bought them all, fashion, music, gossip, womens, family.

But more and more they started to make me feel like I was somehow less than those women in the pages. And so I stopped. I feel better for it. And it saves me a motza too – mags are expensive!

The only two I like to buy now are Post Modern Ink, which is very “real person” oriented and certainly positive of body image messages, and Popular Mechanics, which feeds my nerd brain!

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