I'm not shouting it. If we were in the same room, I would say it in a polite civil tone, but I would still say it.

Body shaming much?

Black Aussie chiming in to say that any and every time someone has used that word around me they were very aware of the context. What magical part of the country are you living in?

Shut up.

I've got an idea. How about from now on, you live your entire life as if everything that archaeologists might assume about you by examining your skeleton (and ignoring any other stuff they found, writings, cultural artifacts, etc) were actually completely true. Insist that everyone else treat you like those things are…

Sometimes that L and G do something really cool that kind of amazes me, and I'm really proud to be a member of the G. Then they open their mouths about the B and the T and I start wishing that there were a way that I could renounce my membership. If I didn't know better, I'd assume that some of the stuff they were…

I don't think it will affect Ms. Pejic's career much at all. Certainly she had a wealth of jobs open to her as someone who modelled fashion for both men and women, but she is strikingly beautiful — one of the most beautiful models working in high fashion today, I'd say — so I don't think her decision to exclusively…

Wow....well aren't you just a disgusting POS?

I feel like the fashion community is particularly accepting of various sexual orientations and gender identities... Obviously fashion isn't accepting of everyone, but in this particular regard, I don't think it's something that will hinder her success as a model. On the contrary, I think it will make her even more…

No. The modeling industry could absolutely use a bit more body diversity. There's no reason that Kate Upton has to be the token curvy model. However, that doesn't make it OK to say that thin women with small breasts and hips look like little boys.

No. Listen, I'm the kind of women who will never ever fit any conventional standards of beauty, and I have to admit that I haven't always been at peace with that. But High Fashion is the least of my problems. Those models are supposed to be _unconventional_ beauties; they're in a league of their own and don't affect…

Actually.. As a no hips, no curves, no butt, "un-femenine" woman, I actually like there to be other women like me out there. I know I'll never have Beyonce's hotness, but its nice to feel I can have my own kind of hotness. What isn't awesome is when you body shame people.

So, how do you manage to click on a link, reach the bottom, and comment without happening to notice there is both an article and a title on the web page? That's some extra-strong willful ignorance you got there...

Criticism of the fashion industry is certainly understandable and often very justified. Using criticism of the fashion industry as a thinly veiled rationalization to falsely justify your own hatred of transgender people is not.

That's exactly what I thought, it wouldn't be an issue that she has a certain type of body if that weren't the only type of body presented in the fashion industry but she doesn't have to answer for that. It's the fault of the institution, not of any one particular individual.

Um I'm going to assume this is meant largely in a legal sense, as in being able to have 'female' on government documents and use women's restrooms, things like that. Probably Andreja doesn't give 2 fuks what some rando on the street thinks, privately, in their heads. I imagine she'd care if they decided to verbally…

I am happy for her but she is unfortunately very racist (she used the n-word), so i am not really a huge fan.

That kinda bums me out, I liked that there was someone who was so gender fluid, and was proving to the world we don't have to follow these strict ideas of what male or female is. I wish her happiness, but does that make sense to anyone else?

I think what elle means is that she might get type cast. Though I'm sure this must personally be good for her (I can't imagine holding that in).