No, regardless of how you interact with it, the imagery itself is still not okay. You can collect it in a socially responsible way, with an eye to its broader implications in American history, but in that instance you're collecting it BECAUSE it's not okay. Read more
Lindy West
lindywest
Do you think the truth really does have a liberal bias? Read more
I don't think this site "blasts" traditional standards of beauty—I think we just question the cultural implications of those standards. I love clothes and makeup and high heels as much as the next lady, but I can still acknowledge and dissect the ways that unattainable beauty ideals have been used to subjugate women… Read more
Uh, welcome to reading. From the article you're commenting on: Read more
I totally get what you're saying. Sorry for being unclear. I'd say that point #1 is a preemptive response to MY potential detractors—not the study's. Because I'm the one who made the leap from "sex-typical" to "pretty" (a leap that I think is reasonable), and I was about to launch into a whole bunch of speculation… Read more
Right, but my central point is that—before you even get into styling—people with "sex-typical" features have an easier go of it in "traditional" gender paradigms. Read more
Actually, the study looked at both men and women. But conservatism did not correlate strongly with sex-typicality in men: Read more
"Compliant" is a great term for it. Read more
I did link to the study. Read more
Fixed! Read more
Oh my god, the one-liners. THE ONE-LINERS!!! Read more
How's your blogging career going? Read more
This comment was such a relief to read just now. Thanks. Read more
Question. So, okay, if I'm saying that these ads are NOT HELPFUL—and a lot of you are agreeing with me—can anyone come up with a pro-health ad that would be genuinely helpful and constructive? Thoughts? What would that look like? Read more
The entire point of my article is that "gluttony" is not the cause of the "obesity epidemic." It is much, much, much bigger, more complicated, and more societally entrenched than that, and shaming gluttons accomplishes absolutely nothing. Read more
I know. I know. I've now been singing it for two hours straight. Read more
Yes, but we can't just yoink pics from wherever. There are laws. Not sure why all the recent pics of Suri weren't coming up in our image banks, but they weren't. Hence, baby pic! Read more