Nice try. I was just made aware that this is an often employed tactic to bully WoC off of Jezebel.

I NEVER, EVER said that Ines or any womenswear model had a male body. You are straight-up fabricating lies. And I know what your agenda is—-silencing me as a WoC. I was warned about this re: Jezebel and it's quite sickening. And sad.

I think we can both agree that words have enormous power.

Oh, so like I said repeatedly, I NEVER SAID THAT TRANS WOMEN ARE MALE BODIED.

This patronizing tone of commentors is EXACTLY why so many Black women find Jezebel to be a hostile space and why Jezebel has a horrible reputation among WOC.

Obviously reading comprehension is not your strong suit. You want to bury your heels in the sand and be morally indignant and actually READING and COMPREHENDING what the hell I'm actually saying seems not to be worth your time. Your little "recap" of what you think I'm saying was so laughably off base that either you…

If there is anything I can clarify for you please let me know. I am pretty straight-forward about my thoughts (at least I think I am clear and,straightforward). But reading comprehension can be challenging for all of us.

If there is anything I can clarify for you please let me know. I am pretty straight-forward about my thoughts (at least I think I am clear and,straightforward). But reading comprehension can be challenging for all of us.

I certainly feel like Jezebel is some bizarre-o world where people insist you said things you didn't say and people think they can police the thoughts of grown ass women.

I never called trans women male bodied. That simply never happened. I in no way believe that trans women are anything but women (it's like saying the sky is blue—-trans women are WOMEN) and would not state anything to the contrary.

Go back and read my original post slowly, please. This seems to be a reading comprehension issue. Nowhere AT ALL do I equate trans women with being men. That is being read into my comment so that people have something to be indignant and patronizing about. Must have been a slow Friday for people.

Well, I AM talking about Black women, Asian women, Latinas, trans women, busty women, flat-chested women, curvy women, straight up-and-down women, etc. So sorry that's not to your liking (actually, nope, not sorry at all).

I have said before and will say again—-the idealized female body in high fashion which includes height, low body fat, thin hips and small breasts may be easier for transgendered women to attain than woman generally, yes, including other transgendred women. I don't think it's a coincidence that the two transgendered…

I'm not trying to prove to you I'm "committed to.the cause". Goodness. I brought up something I'd been thinking about concerning representation and modeling since 75% of my work is in this space and you write this patronizing as hell comment back like you're telling me to go sit in the back of the bus.

All that to say that I think that a lot women who were born the opposite gender may have less body fat that other women, since men generally have less body fat. And that an ,angular, low body fat look is highly coveted by high fashion.

I simply don't think it's a crappy thing to do, though. I do believe there are similarities among groups of people and that pointing them out is not—- on its face—-hurtful.

Black women's bodies have always been considered too "big", unruly, unfettered to be taken seriously by"high culture." Even Chanel Iman in her young age talks openly that as one of the few WOC doing high fashion shows she's privileged because she is "straight up and down and that's what designers." She talks about how…

One of the fights Black models have had to wage to get into high fashion runways is to get over the "stigma" that Black women's bodies are not "high fashion" bodies because of bigger hips/hourglass figures. Tyra, Ms. Campbell, and Veronica Webb have been very, very open about it. Tyra especially talks openly how how…

That's not at all the point I was making.

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