Oh I know; it just boggles my mind that they can’t see beauty in other forms than just the one, when there are so many examples – that’s why I mentioned all the different types that have been seen as culturally beautiful over time – from fat, to hourglass, to thin, to really thin. Can’t they see there’s beauty in all of them or something?

I probably said it wrong, but then I often do. It wasn’t a “real women have curves” kind of remark, honest. :)

You have a gig at Broadsheet now? Shit, if they’re smart enough to hire you, I might re-up with Salon after all.

Amazingly awkward alliteration is in the eye of the beholder.

That’s pretty much what I was going to say.

But, SM, I found that reading SP and playing super mario galxay were the best ways to study for orals. So put down the NYT.

Basically, the study is problematic. Also, it didn’t show what the headline says. But isn’t it funny that the misrepresented media analysis of a flawed study actually turns out to be a big duh? Maybe two wrongs do make a right. :)

Exactly!

In my younger and more vulnerable years, one of my (many) justifications for my disordered eating was that regardless of the risks of malnutrition, they were surely less than (or at the most equal to) the risks that “everyone” knew were associated with being fat.

While I doubt that knowing the dangers associated with persuing a body type that doesn’t come naturally to you would have dissuaded me, it certainly couldn’t have hurt me to have that knowledge. But it seems we only care about informing people if they might die from something that isn’t hawt.

Amen.