The Human Trampoline

"Too many women look at me and think, She can’t be fat —she looks fine, then look at themselves and think, I’m so fat — I can’t possibly look (or be) fine. Even ones who are built exactly like me. As long as the horseshit stereotypes persist — that fat women can never be healthy, smart, driven, disciplined, fashionable, attractive and eminently lovable — women who are all those things and fat will keep seeing themselves as fundamentally disgusting and unworthy. So every time someone tries to tell me I’m not fat simply because I don’t fit those stereotypes, I’m gonna keep telling them I am, too, fat, dammit! Le fat, c’est moi. This is what fat looks like."

~ Does my butt look fat? (Kate Harding)

11 May 2012 ·

• Tags
• fat
• size
• perception
• being a girl

"The most insidious thing about Ms. Stanley’s piece is that she seems to think she’s doing something worthwhile by pointing out the plainness of the actresses. What it comes down to is that for it or against it, discussing either the attractiveness or the “normalness” of a woman’s looks still means that you’re keeping it in the cultural zeitgeist. It’s not relevant, dude! This is supposed to be a review about a half-hour sitcom, not a piece about beauty trends in TV. When was the last time a review of Two and a Half men felt the need to go into how Jon Cryer is “such a normal-looking man?"

~ Erin Gibson: Pretty Funny (Minus the Funny) 

22 April 2012 ·

• Tags
• tv
• being a girl
• erin gibson

"I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys. I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music business have not just issued an enormous ‘f**k you’ to every woman who has been, is or will be on the receiving end of domestic violence. We should be furious. Why aren’t we?"

~ HelloGiggles – I’m Not Okay with Chris Brown Performing at the Grammys and I’m Not Sure Why You Are

12 February 2012 ·

• Tags
• domestic violence
• chris brown
• grammys
• being a girl

"Not to get too soapbox, but if you want to be pro-woman, you have to be pro- all women, not just the ones whose lives have turned out like yours."

~

Emily V. Gordon - “Let Us Now Celebrate the Aging Party Girl.”

(via carry-onbaggage)

This is something I need to repeat to myself.  Often.

(Source: xojane.com, via carry-onbaggage)

30 January 2012 ·

• Tags
• feminism
• being a girl
• emily v. gordon