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Apr. 29th, 2007 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienne"Ah, those size-zero ladies, with their sternums and clavicles and harshly sweeping cheekbones and big, big vulnerable eyes and sharply delineated wrists (set off to perfection by an oversized man's watch and a clutch of chunky bracelets) - they were fun for a while, in a car-crashy kind of way, weren't they? All that gossip and bitchery. But they weren't very.. sexy. You couldn't imagine shoving Nicole Ritchie up against a wall and doing naughty things to her, could you? She would break. Nope, those skinny little wenches may be good at dangling Chanel handbags from delicate fingers, but they don't do so well at inspiring lasciviousness, awe and plain ol' dirty thoughts. For that, you need a lady with some flesh on her bones. And I know just where to find one.
While all eyes have been on Hollywood's anorexic angels, the world of indie rock has been undergoing some ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. When women wanting to make it into the mainstream will swiftly be told to slim down, nobody is paying any attention to the margins, which means that if you sneek a peek at any one of the many all-girl bands out there on the indie circuit, I guarantee there will be at least one pudgy little sauce-pot (UK size 14 or larger) in the band.
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"The sad-eyed, semi-starved, designer-clad urchins of Hollywood may make compelling copy, but at the end of it all, they are just good girls, looking the way that women are meant to look: petite, fragile, delicate. The cool fat girl is different. She is all about living in the moment. Forward planning and risk management (the cornerstones of dieting) - could any words be less rock'n'roll? The cute fat girl favours immediate pleasure - this biscuit, now! - over future consequences, and the glorious big indie girls of rock prove just how good you can look while doing it."
No, no, no! Objectifying fat women is NOT empowering them, Anne-Marie Payne. What the fuck is a "pudgy little sex-pot"? And are you quite sure that you mean "little"? And way to tell thin people that they have no value as human beings, because they do not conform to your standards of sexual attractiveness. God knows it's not like a woman can have value in any other sphere. My flesh is not a canvas for your political statement. I'm not fat because I'm more rock'n'roll than a thin girl - I'm fat because, for a lot of my childhood, I ate more than I excercised. My weight is more or less stable now, so I suspect that's less the case these days. But I could be "cute", "cool", "gorgeous", "sexy", at size 2 or size 22. I hated fashion magazines enough when I was anathema to them. But now that this one wants to co-opt my body for her cause? Fuck that.
While all eyes have been on Hollywood's anorexic angels, the world of indie rock has been undergoing some ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. When women wanting to make it into the mainstream will swiftly be told to slim down, nobody is paying any attention to the margins, which means that if you sneek a peek at any one of the many all-girl bands out there on the indie circuit, I guarantee there will be at least one pudgy little sauce-pot (UK size 14 or larger) in the band.
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"The sad-eyed, semi-starved, designer-clad urchins of Hollywood may make compelling copy, but at the end of it all, they are just good girls, looking the way that women are meant to look: petite, fragile, delicate. The cool fat girl is different. She is all about living in the moment. Forward planning and risk management (the cornerstones of dieting) - could any words be less rock'n'roll? The cute fat girl favours immediate pleasure - this biscuit, now! - over future consequences, and the glorious big indie girls of rock prove just how good you can look while doing it."
No, no, no! Objectifying fat women is NOT empowering them, Anne-Marie Payne. What the fuck is a "pudgy little sex-pot"? And are you quite sure that you mean "little"? And way to tell thin people that they have no value as human beings, because they do not conform to your standards of sexual attractiveness. God knows it's not like a woman can have value in any other sphere. My flesh is not a canvas for your political statement. I'm not fat because I'm more rock'n'roll than a thin girl - I'm fat because, for a lot of my childhood, I ate more than I excercised. My weight is more or less stable now, so I suspect that's less the case these days. But I could be "cute", "cool", "gorgeous", "sexy", at size 2 or size 22. I hated fashion magazines enough when I was anathema to them. But now that this one wants to co-opt my body for her cause? Fuck that.
