The other week, a very good friend of mine had the misfortune of having her photograph added to a malicious Facebook group. It was against slightly chubby to fat women in skinny jeans and her photograph of her in her amazing skinny jeans was added to the group without her knowledge, with fat phobic, trans…
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Boobs. Tits. Jugs. Breasts. This is what the uproar is about? A body part? A Lane Bryant in the USA, a plus sized retailer. Apparently it was considered too risqué for television. Honestly, I have to worry about the values dissonance here. So, it’s totally ok to show violence and swearing, even in television shows…
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I’m continuing my activist fatigue and indulging in some mindless consumerism. Ok, well, I tried (damn you, Outnet and your 1 pound sale — NO ONE could get on the website last Friday), but there’s nothing I really want or need at the moment. Typical! However, if you want to indulge in some mindless consumerism,…
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I think I’m experiencing activist fatigue. This realisation came about after reading Mia Freedman’s column on the OMGbesity “crisis” Well, to be fair, it wasn’t so much the column as some of the comments. Yeah, I broke my own rule: Never read the comments. If I hadn’t though, I would never have come across some…
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I’m so excited for the end of summer. I hate so much about it, despite living in a sub-tropical climate my entire life and therefore, becoming used to it. I don’t think I’m used to it so much as just defeated by it. Most of all, what I hate about summer is the sweating. I…
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Natalie, over at Definatalie recently posted about the “Tights are Not Pants” issue. She brought up some very interesting thoughts for me. For those who haven’t heard or seen this phenomenon it’s exactly what it says on the label: Tights? Are not Pants. I’m talking tights, with the gusset, with the underwear showing, being worn…
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A comment on my blog post from last week informed the content for the post this week. Here it is: “…this is why when I see a photograph of myself I do an inspection of each & every flaw. Every bump & shadow I evaluate with the eye of a tabloid picture editor. This is…
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The modelling industry is an entirely different world to ours. There’s model world, then there’s the actual world. In the actual world, an Australian size 12 is pretty average. A medium. In the modelling world? It’s where plus size starts. No wonder so many young girls have a complex. No wonder why so many women…
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The Oscars were on Monday (Sunday night US time). I haven’t been interested in who wins what in a very long time, but I’ve always been interested in Oscar fashion. This year, there weren’t too many missteps, or overly awesome standouts. But I did notice Gabourey Sidibe. Nominated for Best Actress for her role in…
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You know what I’m sick of? Websites and TV programs masquerading as giving women empowering style tips, when they’re really using body shaming language, rigid style ‘rules’, oh, and, other people’s photos without permission! A plus sized blogger was contacted recently and asked to contribute to this article that was being written on a website….
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Our clothes swap took place on the weekend. It was at my friend’s place, and let me tell you — if I hadn’t have gotten a lift there, I would not have been able to cart all my stuff with me. I have a LOT of stuff. To be fair, it wasn’t ALL mine. Some…
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This fat woman has always tried to take up as little space as she could. She has tried not to draw attention to herself, good, bad or indifferent. She dressed in dark colours, she hunched her shoulders, she sucked in her stomach. This might have gone on indefinitely if it wasn’t for this fat woman…
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There was a recent brouhaha about a photoshopped picture in the New York Times of Christina Hendricks (Joan from Mad Men) at the Golden Globes. The New York Times took the photo down and posted a retraction, saying something about ‘routine processing’. Yeah, sure. The columnist talked about whether Christina Hendricks was too fat for…
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I’ll interrupt the fashion and fabulous talk for a moment to focus Air France’s new policy. For sanity reasons: Don’t read the comments. Never, ever read the comments. I’m serious. I know now people will end up reading them purely because I said not to, so don’t say I didn’t warn you. I know this…
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