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bittergrapes:

madehimsaycomfychairs:

girlgrowingsmall:

miss-adriennej:

girlgrowingsmall:

changing-forthebetter:

fitforinfinity:

I’m waiting to see one of these images where the size 16 doesn’t have her fat so wonderfully evenly distributed. Or any of the sizes, really. Because I’m absolutely positive that not everyone’s fat is so perfectly distributed to all the “right” places. I know mine isn’t.

The media is trying to be all about “all sizes are beautiful!” now, but what they really mean is, “all sizes are beautiful, as long as you don’t have those unsightly rolls of fat.” Just look at all the women in Dove’s campaign, or any picture with “plus-sized” models.

RANT FOR TODAY OVER.

OH MY GOD, THIS.
Like, “You can be a plus size model, just make sure you’re a size 12-16 WITH NO LUMPS OR DIMPLES OR ANYTHING, PLZ!”
I’m sorry, I’m currently a size 14 and my body does not look like that. It isn’t realistic. Same the the cartoons that are always being drawn. Sure, I’ve love to be that curvy if it meant I was totally smooth all over! For fucks sake. Shit like this make me want to take pictures of my stomach and shove it in their faces and go, “NO SORRY, this is what a size 14 looks like.”

It’s also photoshopped. I’m sure ALL of these ladies have some lumpiness, stretch marks, rolls, etc. But you can tell from the perfect smoothness of it all that it’s been edited.

I’m so anti-photoshop today, it’s not even funny. It’s one thing to photoshop away a zit or something. Your zit is not any everyday part of who you are, and you can’t help that it showed up on photo day. But to photoshop away your natural beauty is just… not right. It’s misleading. It says you look like something you NEVER look like.

So wait. Society is finally embracing plus size models, but you’re mad bc they’re not the right kind of plus size models? I understand what you’re saying, but that’s a little ridiculous. P.S. they airbrush size 2 models, what makes you think they won’t airbrush  plus-size models?

You completely misunderstood our points.

1. Society isn’t “embracing” plus size models. This “plus size” model is at the bottom-most range of plus size, i.e. as close to “thin” as they could get while still calling it “plus size” just to appease communities like ours. That is why this is ridiculous. A representation of the plus size community would be someone in the middle and/or representing the mean plus size, not someone at the very edge of the spectrum. She may wear a size 16 in stores that run 4 sizes smaller. The average woman who wears a size 16 looks noticeably larger than that.
2. My complaint about photoshopping applied to ALL the women, not just the biggest one. Don’t know where you got that.

So I really don’t think you “understand what we’re saying.” This photo is insulting to women as a whole. It’s fine to have a bigger body or a smaller body. But this image makes women think that they’re bigger than they are by showing women who are smaller than the size they’re listed at, and it makes women feel flawed by showing women in an array of sizes with seemingly zero imperfections, blemishes, or marks. It is misleading.

Oh my god all of this.

I’m a size 8 and I certainly don’t look like that.

For starters, my stomach isn’t perfectly flat like hers is.

My legs aren’t that toned.

My shoulders aren’t that bony and my ass doesn’t look that great.

Like, it’s fine and dandy to say that a man’s ideal is a size 12, but I certainly don’t look like any of these photos.

Hey guise guess what

I’m a size 3 or 4, aka runway model sized

and I still have rolls of fat and stretch marks

like, it’s physically fucking impossible not to have some sort of fat roll anywhere

because human beings need some measure of fat to fucking live

and that fat doesn’t magically decide to gravitate to all the photogenic parts

like guess what? I have a lumpy, dimpled ass, and I’ve got stretch marks on my hips, and my breasts aren’t totally perky! And that’s fucking okay because people are not naturally smooth as butter, and acting as if they are is completely alienating and degrading to bodies everywhere, cis, trans*, and in between.

These women don’t even look like this picture in real life. No one looks like that. Ever. Not even runway models.

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psychowolf:

Secret from PostSecret.com

I empathize with this secret. Only I am deathly afraid and he’s my best friend … He was injected with smallpox and exposed to anthrax back in his prior base to grow an immunity for when he’d be in South Korea, should there be a nuclear attack on the south. He currently lives in Seoul. 

I strongly believe that a huge part of me, if not all of me, would instantly die along with him if anything were to happen that I could not cope with. I cannot even conceive of it … 

I can only pray and hope he remains as strong, if not stronger, and as healthy, if not healthier.

(Source: postsecret.com)

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