Comments on: skin & bones.

By: V

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:28:52 +0000

These are human beings who do not represent most of the women as a species. They represent fashion.

It’s not nice for a naturally thin person like me to hear that skinny disgusts you. I don’t go around shouting how I feel about fat or normal women.

By: Mazikins

Mazikins — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:31:36 +0000

I just stumbled across this blog and this post got my attention because it’s on a subject that was discussed among my female colleagues recently (how a fashion firm was caught red-handed Photoshopping pictures of a model by increasing the size of her head to make her look thinner).

I think it’s pretty ridiculous.

On the other hand, until quite recently, a thin, androgynous body was my ideal, what I wanted to look like. On some level, I still do. But it will never happen, even if I starve myself to death and do 50 hours of cardio a week. My body is short and muscular and I have a pretty wide bone frame.

So I took the other route. I started working *with* my body. I started doing strength training and weight lifting. Ladies, you would be AMAZED at how strong you can get with the right mindset and the right training. And at how much better that can make you feel about yourself. After one year, I wouldn’t trade my muscles and my strength for a 90 pounds body. You can’t frighten your co-workers into submission when you weigh 90 pounds.

*flex*

By: Soph - -

Soph - - — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:12:50 +0000

That’s stupid how skinny they are. I just went on Wikipedia and looked at Chanel Iman’s page…she’s tiny. It says she’s 5′9″ and weighs 50 kilos…how?! I’m a tall (5′7″) 13 year old, and I weigh 62 kilos. I don’t think I’m fat. I don’t see why the industry encourages this.

By: To be fat is to be like an alien « The Virgin Side of Life

To be fat is to be like an alien « The Virgin Side of Life — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:06:04 +0000

[...] criticizing underweight models and society’s obsession with looking stick thin, I see women angrily stating that they have always been underweight and that no one has a right to call them [...]

By: NaturalySkinny

NaturalySkinny — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:58:07 +0000

I’m so sick of people dissing skinny girls. I relise that alot of these girls (in the pics) have serious issues, and deffinitly don’t agree with that. But i’m naturally skinny, and I refuse to make myself eat ALL the time in order to be “normal” (esp. when I already eat more than my teenage brother :)) Passing judgement on skinny girls as a whole, or just the body type in general is no different from posting a blog about how much fat people discust you. I don’t see why its okay for a stranger to comment on my weight, but “hurtfull” to tell a fat person how obese they are. The worst part about it is the self-righous attitue people take. Theyre “helping” girls to be their deffinition of “normal”( average hight, average weight). Ive actually had a “modivational” speaker tell me, “skinny isn’t pretty”. Just because its more culturally exeptable to have our body type, dosn’t mean we don’t feel insicure about it.