What to make of the set of contradictions within this curious mixture of vicious journalism and advertorial? The article is telling you what to buy to look like Beth Ditto, yet also slagging her off for being too fat. What the...?!
Thanks for the link CC.
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What a load of crap! I just left a comment!
Of course they're going to try and sell her look, but you're supposed to want to be thin(ner) in order to carry it off well. It's all of a piece with TFOBT, as long as you're fat, you're not supposed to think you can be fabulous or have an interesting life or have someone fall in love with you. All of those have to be put on hold until you meet that impossible "ideal" that maybe 4 women in the world embody (and even then, the fashion mags still find things that need to be photo-shopped out). That's why I think Beth Ditto is so cool, she's telling them all to stuff it, she's going to rock her fashion however she pleases, just as she is.
A journalist pressed into writing the article?
I'm amazed they left in any of pro-Ditto/critiquing the journalist comments... my experience is they usually ignore those or they disappear after a day or so and leave just the fat hating ones... It does read as if she was told to do a piece on how to get BD's style but slipped in an anti-fat/presumption para of her own opinion. And what a contradictory para it is - why is she liberating if she's 'not healthy'? Why does having 'youth on her side' make a difference? So as long as she's not the twin evils of fat *and* old it's ok? Sheesh.
...."chubby cheeks and cheeky smile as though it were the most ordinary thing in the world?" Would they prefer her to hang her head in shame, look miserable and self consciously keep tugging at her dress because- you know, shes fat and shes uncomfortable carrying around all that WEIGHT. GIVE ME A BREAK.
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