I was gonna dismiss your comment, but instead I'm gonna assume you just have a good-faith misconception of what the term "neurotypical" means.

Another great example is weight gained by psychiatric medications. There are a few that are HUGE with that side effect.

You are missing the point of fat acceptance. It is not "bad health acceptance." Food choices/intake, activity level, lifestyle choices and even health need to be separated from self esteem. You can have self confidence if you want to, regardless of whether others agree. You can hate obesity (in unhealthy cases) yet…

What part of this article do you consider "anti anti-animal cruelty rhetoric?" From over here, it looks like they're blasting a horribly sexist organization regardless of their beliefs on animal cruelty. I bet they'd criticize a hunting organization for this behavior just the same.

I was the same exact way. I still have moments where I judge someone, but I've generally tried to stop. But I used to sit around and be like "ugh, women have curves, sheeple"! And then I realized that it's such a dick thing to say. As if the women who do fit the ideal don't have feelings.

I've decided to side-step parts of this thread and instead try to redirect it a little: I remember having an a-ha moment about 5 years ago. I was looking at a picture of Angelina Jolie and thinking "For god's sake that woman needs to eat a sandwich and put on at least 10 pounds before she gets back in front of a…

Girls will starve themselves not because that body type exists, but because it's held up as the ideal. She can be as surgically altered as she wants. That, in itself is not bad! Looking like she does is not inherently bad! I personally don't want to look that way and not will I ever even be able to look that way. But…

I'm glad you can quote feminist literature, but it's not like we're all unfamiliar with their work.

I never insinuated that you were a bitch (I am also not a man, so in essence your quote is labeling us both as bitches for having opinions).
You are entitled to your opinion, just as those of us who disagree or see a different angle are free to challenge that opinion, and most have tried to do so with a great deal…

No, I don't give a shit what Victoria or anyone else does to their body. They can do whatever they'd like. It's their body, and it's not my place to tell them how thry should or should not look. Doing so only perpetuates judgement against women's bodies for arbitrary things. Even body snarking against the ideal body…

Well, first of all I think if you look at my comment history you won't find any 'fawning' over this image, I'm just looking at the discussion in this thread. Because I do find that a lively exchange of ideas and opinions on this subject can be enlightening on occasion.

I think I do understand what you are really trying to say - that the size-zero-as-the-ONLY-ideal concept in this society is unhealthy, unrealistic and is an incredibly narrow definition of beauty.

There's a difference between railing against the concept of one body being held up as ideal, and shaming someone for how they look. The answer isn't to shame people who fit the current ideal, natural or not, but to get rid of the idea of an ideal body altogether. Snarking on Victoria's body doesn't dismantle the…

I don't know if Beckham has had plastic surgery. That's not really the issue. You may not like the way she looks, but it's not for you to decide how others should feel about her body. I'd wager most of us don't hold much of an opinion. She's not going around promoting herself as a model of thinspiration, or shaming…

You do realize that some women simply are thin - that's how their bodies function and it's not about idolizing anyone. My mom who is nearly 80, grew up in the era of the curvaceous screen sirens, yet was what you would call "an emaciated bobblehead" Despite being a perfectly healthy emaciated bobblehead, people…

Well, you're certainly reading a lot into what I said that isn't there. I find your judgement distasteful and think that it speaks much more strongly about you than anyone who's pushed back against your self-assumed authority on what is or is not characteristic of a "real woman."

This is just an aside, but some of our transgendered sisters don't have vaginas...

Real, "half starved, bobble-headed" woman chiming in here: you're full of it. Stop the body shame. All living people who identify as a woman are Real Women. Victoria's not photoshopped here. She's real. Live. And thin.

Yes. Some real women are thin. Some real women are not thin. Some real women have curves. Some real women do not. All women are real women, including Victoria Beckham who is not, to the best of my knowledge, an automaton. Real women come in all shapes and sizes.

Yes it fucking is, also if you are not romani/traveler you do not get to decide that it is NOT a racist song.