Posted by: radfemles on: October 29, 2010
is all I can say.
Head over to Jezebel for more info:
http://jezebel.com/5673680/what-was-marie-claire-thinking-with-this-fatties-piece?skyline=true&s=i
I don’t actually think I buy anything from their advertisers, but I’m double checking and I urge you all to do the same, and if so, change products.
One unintended consequence of the article I’ve felt? Feeling really sorry for the author.
I didn’t expect to! I didn’t intend to!
But someone who holds that much contempt for other people, to the point of being physically sick over their appearance and likening them to heroin addicts (which everyone knows means Bad Person, yeesh), must have a lot of self hatred.
It hurts to see a woman hate her body so much.
And it hurts to know that thousands of women feel the same way.