Do normal sized women wear clothes where you are form? How strange.

You know they have these problems by looking at them?

I get it, I really do,

I don't think any of the women in that photo above are in danger of diabetes due to weight. There's a massive range between "morbidly obese" and "ever appearing in fashion magazines".

In other words, I don't think these editorial choices have anything whatsoever to do with health.

Yep! No clothes to put them in, so bras and panties, it is.

It's a nice sentiment, but I'm not going to be all that impressed until it comes out a) in Vogue's print edition, not their website and b) is not touted as being a token article about women of all different sizes.

Somebody call me when they press all those designers they can make do anything come up with capsule collections for plus sizes that they then feature in their magazines.

It's great to see Vogue showing some body diversity. HOWEVER. One point that people repeatedly bring up when these issues come up is that when bigger models are used, they're almost always naked or nearly naked. They don't get to wear real clothes. And yep, this is a lingerie spread, so.... *sigh*

Is this sterilization through beta hCG even a real thing though? I can't find anything online about it other than this article/concern raised by a lot of biased sites. It's something that the body produces during pregnancy, not a sterilization agent.

Maternal and neonatal tetanus represents a very high proportion of the total tetanus disease burden due mainly to inadequate immunization services, limited or absent clean delivery services and improper post-partum cord care. The majority of mothers and newborns dying of tetanus live in Africa and Southern and East…

Don't bother. Metalgear386 is going to be the "perfect" American who pulled himself up from his bootstraps and therefore is living proof that only laziness is holding back everyone else. You won't be able to say anything because he'll keep pulling out aspects of his life as anecdotal evidence to disprove you.

That's great that you succeeded. Lots of other people were just as talented as you and tried just as hard as you and didn't get that job, because there are only a limited number of them. There's no invisible magic in the world that apportions success to the deserving.

..and those who don't understand that addiction does not discriminate between classes or income brackets.

I dont know where you're living but my mom never drank nor smoked and we didnt have money for anything either. The "well they blew it all on smokes and booze!" excuse is an all-time favourite of those who dont want to think about how lesser fortunate have it.

Might be a good idea to avoid the implication that someone who doesn't turn out financially successful didn't have parents who cared (which your last sentence does). On top of that, there are many people for whom financial stability gives emotional and chronological room to "care," and "wouldn't" should they suddenly…

The middle school I work at really demonstrates this. None of my kids have any drive to continue on after high school and the local high school doesn't require an entrance exam from my school so they don't study at all. They are content to live the working class lives of their parents, no dreams of college or work…

Very, very true. I'm somewhere inbetween extremes, but I've had ups and downs through my upbringing, and I've seen first hand how the environment that you grow up in will affect the outcome of your life.

While I don't agree that your future is solely dependent on money (having a parent who makes time and gives a shit is worth way more), it does an interesting job of commenting on class divisions in Japan—and beyond.

Indeed.

It is extremely important to remember the casualty between poorly paid jobs and time. As well as everything else lack of time and stress causes in social relations.

And as long as money is required for the very basics of life, money WILL be the defining factor in these situations.

While I don't agree that your future is solely dependent on money (having a parent who makes time and gives a shit is worth way more), it does an interesting job of commenting on class divisions in Japan—and beyond.