Mariesther Venegas for Plus Model Magazine by Michelle Alexandra
KJ YOU ARE KILLIN ME
I really wanna do a shoot like this!They really need to take the ‘plus size’ out of their vocab. You’re either a model or you’re not, size doesn’t matter.
Ugh, exactly. Until we stop making a big deal about putting “plus-sized” people in ads and magazine spreads, it’s still going to be seen as weird.
Ugh, let me guess - you two also believe that “if we just stop talking about race, racism will magically go away.” The same way women got the right to vote by no one talking about it or the way gays in the military stopped being persecuted for being gay by no one talking about it. Here’s the deal marginalizers (yup, just made up a word, but it’s cool since we’re not even really talking about this, right?) you can’t IGNORE a bad situation into GOING AWAY. A marginalized group does not stop being marginalized by letting themselves be further IGNORED. Fat people are barely represented in the media - that’s just a fact. And that’s just considering white fat people, fat people OF COLOR are even less represented. So yes, spreads like this in magazines like this are necessary. So bodies like this and people likes this CAN BE NORMALIZED. So that when marginalizers see fat people, they can finally find their way to not seeing them as “weird.” It is too damn early in the morning for me to have to be dealing with people who have obviously had the luxury of seeing people in the media who look like themselves their entire lives. Some of us haven’t had that privilege, stop expecting us to stay quiet about it.
“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.” —
Lance Crouther (via rattlingbone)
Sometimes you read something and your whole perspective of a situation changes. This is one of those things.
(via interactivesleep)
“Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s appearance matter a lot. Not all men buy into this, of course, but many do. Some seem incapable of entertaining the notion that not everything women do with their appearance is for men to look at. This is why men’s response to women discussing stifling beauty norms is so often something like “But I actually like small boobs!” and “But I actually like my women on the heavier side, if you know what I mean!” They don’t realize that their individual opinion on women’s appearance doesn’t matter in this context, and that while it might be reassuring for some women to know that there are indeed men who find them fuckable, that’s not the point of the discussion.
Women, too, have been socialized to believe that the ultimate arbiters of their appearance are men, that anything they do with their appearance is or should be “for men.” That’s why women’s magazines trip over themselves to offer up advice on “what he wants to see you wearing” and “what men think of these current fashion trends” and “wow him with these new hairstyles.” While women can and do judge each other’s appearance harshly, many of us grew up being told by mothers, sisters, and female strangers that we’ll never “get a man” or “keep a man” unless we do X or lose some fat from Y, unless we moisturize//trim/shave/push up/hide/show/”flatter”/paint/dye/exfoliate/pierce/surgically alter this or that.
That’s also why when a woman wears revealing clothes, it’s okay, in our society, to assume that she’s “looking for attention” or that she’s a slut and wants to sleep with a bunch of guys. Because why else would a woman wear revealing clothes if not for the benefit of men and to communicate her sexual availability to them, right? It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that it’s hot out or it’s more comfortable or she likes how she looks in it or everything else is in the laundry or she wants to get a tan or maybe she likes women and wants attention from them, not from men?
The result of all this is that many men, even kind and well-meaning men, believe, however subconsciously, that women’s bodies are for them. They are for them to look at, for them to pass judgment on, for them to bless with a compliment if they deign to do so. They are not for women to enjoy, take pride in, love, accept, explore, show off, or hide as they please. They are for men and their pleasure.” — Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via albinwonderland)
They’re beautiful. But they should really lose some weight (not being a bitch)
- you ARE being a bitch.
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