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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
10/15/09

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For those who have yet to see it, Paris is Burning is available on YouTube. And yes, it is as fabulous as you have heard. Seeing it for the first time makes so much pop culture from the past two decades click into place.

[www.youtube.com] #voguing
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Cookie Dough Monster
10/15/09

@HeatherNumber1: Agreed. I had an awesome professor in college who introduced our class to it. Turns out a few former students of his had been involved in its heyday.

Very interesting, very well done. Totally worth watching. #voguing
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mnerd
10/15/09

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Did anyone see [Randy Jackson Presents] America's Best Dance Crew? There was a crew on there that was made up of guys and a transgender girl from the underground new york vogue scene. They were called vogue Evolution and they were AWESOME. #voguing
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
10/15/09

@mnerd: Oh yes I did, and I voted for them! #voguing
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bess marvin, girl detective
10/15/09

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Paris is Burning is one of my all-time fav documentaries. I call my friend Pepper LaBeija all the time. #voguing
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Dodai
10/15/09

@bess marvin, girl detective: RIP Octavia… #voguing
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bess marvin, girl detective
10/15/09

@Dodai: very tragic. reminds me of the body found after dorian corey's death and the book "the drag queen had a mummy in her closet" that came out as a result. #voguing
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Lazy Line Painter Jane
10/15/09

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this is the best news Benny Ninja's gotten all day! #voguing
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DangerMouse
10/15/09

@Lazy Line Painter Jane: Finally, he has something to do during ANTM rerun season! #voguing
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badmutha
10/15/09

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One would think that coming done is far better than coming undone, unless of course that was your purpose all along. #voguing
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jrhys
07/24/09

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While we're talking can we also look at about size-ism in fashion blogs? The Sartorialist regularly posts pix of emaciated women, often smoking cigarettes, as fashion inspiration:
http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/62209WhttopGucci_127Web.jpg,http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/2149GraceWeb.jpg,http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/2179RoTurWeb.jpg
It makes me just ill!
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hamburgerhotdog
07/24/09

@jrhys: I cannot recall a time I've seen any woman who wasn't extremely thin on one of those blogs. It's as if stylish women don't exist past size six!
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EzekielEriphyle
07/24/09

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Jezebel, You are misrepresenting the quote in the last bullet point a little. The quote ends with the woman saying something to the effect of, "that was what my mom would tell me, but I don't agree with it." I think it's important to give people credit when it's due, especially when the rest of your piece is so critical (deservedly, I'm not arguing with that).
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queenieinmanhattan
07/24/09

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...who lives — of course — on the Upper East Side.

This UESer says, "Ouch!"
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clochette
07/23/09

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Wow, Parisiennes and NYCers have more in common than I'd realised.

When a recent study showed that French women were the slimmest in Europe - but were more likely to consider themselves as needing to lose weight than any other country, as well as setting their 'ideal' BMI lower than any other nation (19.5) - well, you should have seen the triumph in the French ladymags. Literally, 'WE'VE WON! WE'RE SKINNIEST!'. Scary stuff.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
07/23/09

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I've lost 6 pounds this week on the mysterious stomach virus diet. Does that mean I can be a rich, entitled, privilege-wielding twatwaffle now?
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KetchupFiend
07/23/09

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Don't know if it's been brought up but I'd bet Manhattanites are younger, on average, than people in the other boroughs. Which I'd guess would correlate somewhat with weight.
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cate3710
07/23/09

@KetchupFiend: I doubt that's true. Yeah, some people move to the outer boroughs when they have kids, but younger people like me live in the boroughs because of cheaper rent.
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ritualtheory
07/23/09

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I grew up in New York, and aside from L.A., it's the only place in the world where I feel consistently shlumpy. And now I find out it isn't simply paranoia?

My mother, also a native, smoked for 40 *years* lest she quit and get fat. Evidently she lives where she belongs.
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tallgirl-in-heels
07/23/09

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Strange, I was immediately enveloped in a cloud of choking smug when I opened that article.
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LawFairy
07/23/09

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Okay, now, I do have to say, I can relate to the quote about not being able to enjoy eating when she feels fat... when I feel fat, I don't feel comfortable in my own skin, which makes eating, walking, going out in public, *anything* unenjoyable. NOW, I understand that the REASON for this is that society is so size-obsessed that it's seeped into my subconscious via osmosis. And I'm working on confronting those unspoken assumptions and combating them when I have the strength. But damn if I can't change how I feel.

Of course, it doesn't look like she's critically engaging the source of her feelings, so I guess that's an important distinction. But still, I'm a bit wary of criticizing people simply for having *feelings* we don't like. I know I've certainly spent enough money on therapy trying not to feel guilty for the simple act of having certain emotional gut reactions...
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hellosunshine
07/23/09

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You know, there are days when I miss New York, like a whole hell of a lot, and I wonder why I moved back to Texas.

This is not one of them.
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hellosunshine
07/23/09

@hellosunshine: (I kid, I love that damn place. And the bagels.)
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philoclea
07/23/09

@hellosunshine: Hey, I'm moving to TX from NY in two weeks! Can you please tell me what I have to look forward to, perhaps by PM?

Back to topic: My short year in NYC was spent living in Manhattan, but I really would have enjoyed the boroughs more, I think. This midtown/UES priviledge -- actually, what the LES has become too -- just riles me like there's no tomorrow. As to the NY Times' trend articles, which make me understand why people in the rest of the country might think New Yorkers have their heads in the clouds.
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mymra
07/23/09

@philoclea: LES may not be what it once was, but about 1/3 of its population still lives below the poverty line. That's hardly UES.

And, for what it's worth, I'm a New Yorker (who, once upon a time, spent 2.8 harrowing years in Texas), and I think that the Times' trend pieces are only good for lulz.
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philoclea
07/23/09

@mymra: See, the thing is, I think so too. I mean, I don't think those pieces represent NYC at all -- there are so many cool, normal, weird, down-to-earth, creative, younameit people in this city. And yet the NYTimes is all, "How to get your kid into the right preschool" and "How to improve your jogging." I get that they have advertising to sell, but they're also the New York paper people in the rest of the country and abroad are likely to read (back in Toronto, it was a sign of sophistication to have a subscription to the Times), and I can't help but wish they'd be better ambassadors for the city.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the "Moving into a now-hip ethnic area and then complaining about the ethnic people" trend piece.
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