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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Personally, I like a big ass


Gisele Bundchen

I don't care what supermodels think, I just want to hate them.
Is that wrong? Does that make me a bigot? You know what? I
kinda don't care if it does. I think it's wrong to despise those weaker
than you. It says something nasty about your character, but there
is nothing particularly wrong or immoral about despising those
who are put on a pedestal high above you especially when it is
for spurious reasons like physical beauty ... which somehow makes
their opinions more valuable as well.

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen recently spouted off on the
current debate over anorexia and the fashion industry. The fashionistas
have recently decided to keep super skinny models off the stage so
young would stop getting the idea that they needed to starve themselves too.
Gisele says fashion isn't responsible for anorexia, shitty parents are.
It's mom and dad who create poor self image among girls whose
irrational fear of becoming obese makes them starve themselves to death.
Well, that is probably true of families who allow their daughters to
read fashion magazines and emulate these God awful scrawny models, yes.

It's like video games and devil music, I think there is a relationship
between them and bad behavior, just not a causal relationship. For
example, only assholes listen strictly to death metal, but death metal
doesn't MAKE you an asshole. And if all you do is play violent video games,
then you might be anything from a little too tightly wound to a violent prick
waiting to unleash on an unsuspecting public.

I don't think looking at one picture of one skinny hosebag is going
to make a reasonably well adjusted girl puke up her lunch in admiration.
But the images of the fashion industry are MUCH more pervasive
and potentially damaging than shitty music and socially retarded
video games, which are really more like symptoms. By constantly
shoving unreasonable touched up images of hyper beauty in our faces
for decades, the fashion industry has actively taken part in convincing
a generation of girls that they are fat pigs who can never be skinny enough.
And if the self-centered and self-proclaimed fashion experts come to the
conclusion pretty much on their own that they need to keep ultra skinny
models off the runway and out of magazines to be more responsible and
promote healthier body images among their own consumers world-wide,
then I certainly won't disagree with them. It's just good business if not
actually moral.

So eat a cheeseburger you skinny empty-headed bitches, lay off the
coke for a week or two and you'll soon know the joys of being like the rest of us.
Heaven forfend.

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