I don't understand why guys like him act like this is a uniquely male problem. Women have it too. The guys we want often overlook us for better-looking women. Male strippers aren't lining up to buy me drinks. You can empower yourself by deciding what you're ultimately willing to do, and not willing to do, to get…

What I don't get is these guys love to cynically point out how shallow hot women are, but when they see a real-life example of one who chooses a guy without visible status, they whine about that. You can't win with these guys. Every thing they see is part of an equation showing how the odds are stacked against them.

^^^The reason a lot of feminists are Marxists.

Paying for sex wouldn't give them the validation they want. They are mad because the hot girls don't choose them. This is their ax. The hot blonde chicks are worthless because they have such shallow mating criteria. Oh wait...

You're wrong. You see, thin people are only thin because they all eat only very moderate, low-calorie diets and exercise all the time. Fat people are all fat because they eat fried chicken and watch television all day.

You are being deliberately obtuse and trying to see something that isn't there. The alleged photoshopping is the object of ridicule. Concern-trolling about body-shaming with the not-so-covert intent of exposing the Jezebel authorship's hypocrisy sounds like time well spent, though.

Pure strawman. Not one word of this piece said anything was wrong with her body. Your position on this matter is already fixed so the truth is apparently irrelevant to you.

Obviously she is not deformed or suffering from some sort of congenital condition as evidenced by the other pictures of her; she's just very thin. Which would lead one to conclude that the photo has been incompetently retouched. Even if it wasn't, it's a strange capture. I'm an artist and I work from life a lot,…

The spot in the photo that people are scrutinizing is strange looking, but if that's the way it came out it can't be helped (although I think I would have digitally edited it myself to make it look less incongruous, if that were my job). But you can't say this woman is being body-shamed just by virtue of the fact…

Whether the photo was shopped, and to what extent, is technically unknown, but if so it's a very awkward result. If it was altered, the question is why would someone deliberately change a perfectly good picture to make it look so strange? There's no judgement if that's the actual unedited shot.

Didn't say I was, but neither are you and it didn't stop you from saying "she looks fine". I can't tell if she's bulimic or on diuretics from the photos, but considering that people are usually even smaller IRL than they look in photos/on screen, it's a safe guess that she is underweight for her height. More to the…

You need to go back to school and study sentence structure and reading comprehension. At no point is this model's natural appearance criticized or even mentioned except to compare it to the final print. The focus is entirely on the Photoshop alterations. You have no point.

I think that can be the case sometimes. There are people whose homophobia is clearly a pathology, as in they are sexually insecure or are closet cases themselves. I certainly don't believe this is the case with every anti-gay asshole. They are just representative of the attitude of gay being "other" in the broad…

The model is described as a victim if anything, inasmuch as it's really even about her. The subject of this article is the attempt to manipulate her appearance and how it allegedly failed by making her waist-to-hip line in the photo look awkward and unnatural. The title says "photoshop disaster" not "this model's…

Checking for the part of the article that called the woman's appearance a disaster...nope, can't find it. It criticized the alteration only, numerous times, but never the model's natural appearance. Moreover, "she is not the only one that this criticism is aimed towards" is meaningless because she isn't the target…

Are you kidding? Let me take this opportunity to request that every recorded image of me always be digitally altered from now on please, so that I am beautiful according to public record? Would save me a lot of time and expense, thx.

The answer to your question is "nothing". There's "nothing" wrong with hairy ones either, and one of them requires no effort. So if you want to spend time and money to achieve "nothing", cool. But we will mock you.

It's a criticism of a single, limited beauty standard. She's not being criticized individually. The type of look she embodies is constantly positively reinforced, so much so that she is getting paid to model skimpy clothes. Are you worried about protecting the feelings of thin models? Or are you defending your…

Well, any ethos that stresses financial independence is of course more easily embraced by people with means and options. I don't think that makes it a bad idea. I think that maybe is the importance of ''choice'' feminism to women from low-income, limited-option backgrounds — it allows for inclusion of the choice to…

That actually sounds pretty awesome. I'd go.