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My Ham-Arms Are Now Avante

03.31.09 | permalink | 2 Comments

Besides being to blame for any suffering endured throughout all of human history, Britain is totally embarrassing because they’re totally obsessed with Beth Ditto like, still. To give you an idea of how uncool that is, I’m turning 25 next month and I was getting bored by, “Oh my God, you look just like that girl from the Gossip!” when I was still in high school.

Case in point, headline published March 28th, 2009: The Beth Ditto effect: are fat girls finally trendy?

Knee-slapping premise for an article, but it’s actually not bad.

For the record, I could not look any less like Beth Ditto. What people were responding to was that I probably “should” have been tenting myself in caftans, but I, like Beth Ditto one might imagine, am pretty over giving a shit if there’s a soft crease of thigh fat hanging out from my hot pants. I’ve noticed this sort of thing happening any time two or more girls who don’t loathe every cubic inch of their flesh are gathered in one place. Inevitably, “Are you guys sisters!?”

And I guess we are, in a way. Uncle Karl, you are not invited into our sorority. I’m sure you’re super bummed.

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