Another reason why America's stupid... — Page 4

Size 8 isn't a huge step up from size 6. :P And neither can remotely be described as "fat." Anyone who thinks Winslet or Zeta-Jones is overweight needs to spend less time with their imaginary friend Ana.

They make 'em smaller to "accentuate" our "curves".

I don't believe in that..because usually, in doing so, it gives them the idea of "Oh-if-I-can-barely-manage-to-stuff-my-butt-and-my-back-into-these-pants-I-can-wear-them".


And I don't like that idea. I like my pants nice and loose. I don't like.."clingy" clothes. I usually get my stuff from Target or Goodwill anyway, so I'm not very picky in my attire. Just as long as I look presentable. See the Summertime thread...or something like that. It's another "fat" topic.

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Updated On: 6/29/05 at 10:24 PM

"They make 'em smaller to "accentuate" our "curves". "

WHAT CURVES? The people that can fit into them have no curves!
I am to the point and age where I can laugh it off, but it can be a bit more stressful when you are young or lack confidence.

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OSG, looks matter to a point. No one will hire someone if they look like a slob. Would you honestly go up to someone if they were at a party caked in dirt and donning a cut up confederate flag shirt? You have to be presentable. It has nothing to do with how your body looks. Its how you present yourself.

Yay 8, Aigoo. Me too!

Has anyone here been in a Hollister? Goddamn, who are they trying to attract? I'm a LARGE there. I take a medium to small anywhere else I shop. And its not like they carry Extra larges either. Thats as far as they go. To be an extra small you literally have to have no ribs.

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ForTheLoveOfLea, my friend told his girlfriend he didn't want her shopping at Hollister, because he didn't want her supporting a company that considered someone with her body an extra large. I wish more people would think like him.

After reading this thread earlier this evening, I was reading my sister's new issue of Seventeen and was horrified to find that they had an article about how Mary-Kate Olsen is this huge fashion icon. Less than a year ago, she was in treatment for anorexia, but Seventeen feels the need to post all these pictures of her applauding her homeless-chic style. She looked absolutely hellish in all the pictures and someone in recovery from an eating disorder does not need to continuously be in magazines. It can't be healthy for them, and it definitely isn't healthy for magazines to keep forcing these images on young girls that then interpret this as the ideal that is expected from them. I normally don't do this, but after typing this out, I'm seriously considering writing to Seventeen to complain. Yes, the article was about her style, but in a society that creates a fashion craze over hideous huge boots just because stars wear them, the mere promotion of her basically shows that you approve of everything about her life, including her problems.

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MMMmm...burrito...

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I think you would see a burrito silhouette sticking out of her excuse for a gut.

The olsen twins look like they are on heroine. Do you see their eyes? They are all sunken in. . .

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Orangeskittles...

I agree. She looks like hell in a handbasket. I recently wrote in to Seventeen in reply to another letter that was in their 'reply' section. It went along the lines of...

"Dear Seventeen,

I can't believe that you are showing curvacious girls. You shouldn't be supporting them, or considering them normal. They aren't normal! You aren't born fat. It's something that you gain and it's your own fault. You should be supporting healthy eating and excersise instead of saying the 'norm' is curvy girls

Love,
I am a dumbass"

I was infuriated by this message. I wrote to them saying that I welcome their support as a full figured teenager, yet they do not need to be putting **** like those letters in the article. I also told the girl that people like her are the reason that teenage girls starve, throw up or hell even kill themselves because they aren't the quote, unquote 'norm'.

Sorry, whenever I think about that it pisses me off.

LilMiZBroADwaY, I did send them a letter in complaint now, and included many parts of my previous post. I even said that I had read the magazine for years, but this was the first time I was infuriated enough to write in about an article. It's a bit lengthy, so I doubt it'll be posted in their letters section in the front (especially since I called it a dangerous mistake and criticized the magazine for perpetuating the system) but at least I voiced my opinion to them.

The fact that some other girl would actually write that in about other "curvy" girls is just proof that promoting post-anorexia as an ideal is definitely having an effect on the way girls view the world. And if 60% of America is overweight, then clearly curvy girls ARE the norm.

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I was disturbed by my neighbor's son this week. He's six years old. This week he's been running in and out of his house to do his execize(sp). Fine...I'm all for kids getting up and being active, but as he does his jumping jacks he chants "Lose the pounds, lose the pounds" He did get a little husky (not what I would call fat) since he had to go on some medication. He's always outside and playing. But now even he's obsessed with pounds. He'll run inside to weigh himself to see if his jumping jacks did him any good. I don't know, but this has been bugging me this past week.

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annette, formal dresses almost always run small. When I got married everywhere I went to look at wedding gowns the woman helping me would kind of cringe and tell me that I needed to expect to need at least one size bigger than I normally do (I guess people usually get really insulted). I would generally reply that I usually have to go up two sizes because I have really big boob

ETA: I don't know why they thought I'd be mad, personally I'd rather err on the larger side and have to go smaller, than try to squeeze into a dress that's much too small.

Updated On: 6/30/05 at 11:38 AM

If Marilyn Monroe was around today and looked the way she did at the height of her fame she would be considered fat and overweight.....go figure.