Sure! This one comes in size Anorexic Photoshop Job.
(Somehow I doubt that this was a case of pulling a girl off the street to be photographed without a care for her body type, where the fact that she is that thin was just incidental. The world of fashion and advertising does not currently work that way. When most of the media out there stops touting "unhealthily thin" as the height of beauty and gives up on the widespread practice of altering images to make women seem significantly skinnier than they are -- and the girls they pick up as models are already really thin, because the industries involved self-select for it -- then I will stop being mad about it.)
Sorry everybody isn't one exact perfect weight and shape to please your messed up sensibilities. The same way I don't call girls who are 20 pounds over average hambeasts, I don't call 20-pounds underweight anorexic. It's all feeding into the same detrimental body image thing.
Edit. You're mad at the wrong person, and you're insulting the wrong person. Calling every skinny girl "anorexic"/eat a sandwich/etc is not the positive and productive path to take, and it just reinforces the divide. Thin does not have to be unhealthy, and presuming it always is, is the same as presuming every overweight person is lazy. Insulting both ways.
You are preaching to the choir. You don't think you are, but you are. I am not angry about people being whatever shape their metabolisms and relatively healthy lifestyles give them. People who are just off being the way they are are not the problem.
Sorry, I just get really riled up whenever a skinny girl gets called anorexic. It's insulting, unfair, and uncalled for, and I've had it happen to me and mine far too often. :(
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Date: 2010-03-28 02:14 am (UTC)(Somehow I doubt that this was a case of pulling a girl off the street to be photographed without a care for her body type, where the fact that she is that thin was just incidental. The world of fashion and advertising does not currently work that way. When most of the media out there stops touting "unhealthily thin" as the height of beauty and gives up on the widespread practice of altering images to make women seem significantly skinnier than they are -- and the girls they pick up as models are already really thin, because the industries involved self-select for it -- then I will stop being mad about it.)
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Date: 2010-03-28 02:27 am (UTC)Sorry everybody isn't one exact perfect weight and shape to please your messed up sensibilities. The same way I don't call girls who are 20 pounds over average hambeasts, I don't call 20-pounds underweight anorexic. It's all feeding into the same detrimental body image thing.
Edit. You're mad at the wrong person, and you're insulting the wrong person. Calling every skinny girl "anorexic"/eat a sandwich/etc is not the positive and productive path to take, and it just reinforces the divide. Thin does not have to be unhealthy, and presuming it always is, is the same as presuming every overweight person is lazy. Insulting both ways.
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Date: 2010-03-28 02:37 am (UTC)Go pick a fight with someone else. :)
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Date: 2010-03-28 02:43 am (UTC)Besides, that's not even close to being anorexic.