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fat phobia

Stop calling Joan Holloway fat!

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace on January 20, 2010 - 1:31pm; tagged Christina Hendricks, fat phobia, Joan Holloway, Mad Men, wtf?.
If I hear another blogger/author/interviewer comment on Christina Hendricks' weight I might lose it. As if her body (omg BOOBS) wasn't enough of a focus already, now she is being picked apart for her appearance at the Golden Globes the other night. As you may have seen by now, Cathy Horyn fromThe New York Times claimed that "You don't put a big girl in a big dress" and ran this (distorted) photo of Hendricks:



WTF?
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Feast of Burden

Feast of Burden
Article by Jessica Hester, Illustrated by Jungyeon Roh, appeared in issue Consumed; published in 2009; filed under Consumer culture; tagged consumption, eating, eroticism, fat acceptance, fat phobia, feeding porn, fetishization, obesity, porn.
Ivy doesn’t look like most performers in mainstream pornography. Then again, the thousands of viewers who have logged on to watch her YouTube videos or look at her photo sets aren’t seeking mainstream adult entertainment. While most porn stars and pinups show off their tits and ass, Ivy shows off her big belly, the body part fetishized in the niche genre of feeding porn.
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'Skinny Bastard' Disgruntles this Bitch

DigiBitch post by Malori Maloney on May 17, 2009 - 2:25pm; tagged fat phobia, food politics, Kim Barnouin, Rory Freedman, Skinny Bastard, Skinny Bitch, veganism, weight.

I'm a couple weeks late on this, but did you all hear about Skinny Bitch's new uber-masculine brother, Skinny Bastard?  Finally, gender equity has arrived!  Now men and women can be separately but equally body shamed!

Get the whole skinny after the jump.

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