If you want something scary, read Timothy Winter's 'praise of cellulite' in regards to gender performance - I sometimes wonder whether as a skinny guy that he is a chubby chaser.
Like this contention of his, which is a 'round the way slap at Muslim women?
67. Christian women: celibacy. Muslim women: cellulite. Thus have two prophets been forgotten.
Oh ho ho, yet another Muslim scholar telling Muslim women they're too fat. Just remember that in Islam, you're respected for your mind and spirit and not taken apart by men and society for your body.
What amuses me is that men don't seem to realize that even slender women have "cellulite". All it is is the dimpling of skin. I'm surprised the Smartest Muslim in the Ummah didn't know that, and instead uses it as a way to slam the west (
in this essay) and then Muslim women (above).
All these gossip rags make a big deal about photographing
celebs in bathing suits with cellulite, but what it it really is is that woman as she exists in reality -
without photo editors and filters and the rest of it. And we're supposed to be disgusted by it. And apparently we are. We all see airbrushed, photoshopped photos in magazines and assume that is what a woman is supposed to look like. Then we see a regular woman (or celebs without makeup on) with regular
bags under her eyes, or dimples on the backs of her thighs and we're like "Oh euw, disgusting!" and calling this guy a chubby chaser as if there is something abnormal and frightening about a man who would find a plus sized woman attractive or loveable (or in this case, just acknowledging that cellulite - which he misunderstands as "fat" - was considered desirable in many societies of the past, probably because it signaled good health or wealth -- access to meat and food on a regular basis).
AHM and his ilk blame this obsession with skinniness on feminism. I don't but aside from that, I don't want to even think about why today's beauty standards are the way they are.
There is an American television actress named Sara Rue. She had her own show for a while, and she was recently on the show "Eastwick", but I don't know that much about her as far as other shows or movies she was in. She was considered, by the industry and in the media as a "plus size" girl. Even women were saying "Finally, a plus sized girl on TV!" (In the US, the average size is 14; I think that is a 12 UK). Then she lost 35 pounds and she's "normal" and people are going on about how gorgeous she is, etc. Lately she's gained it back and apparently signed up to be the latest Jenny Craig celebrity spokesperson.
Her dress size when she's considered "fat?"
A size 8/10. The size at which she is praised? 2. There are some other photos of her in her "got hot" phase and you can see the bones coming out of her shoulders and poking through at the hips of her dresses. But now, when people in Hollywood consider a so-called size "00" to be normal and desirable, and when it's what they put on TV, I guess that's okay.
Topic: Being fat is evidence against intelegent design!