What medical emergency, if you don’t mind my asking? I hope everything’s okay now!

Which is why to most people the former smoker is the most boring person in the room

No women don’t. The designers prefer super skinny models as it’s easier to ‘design’ clothes for a thin, flat frame. The clothing will hang in the way they want rather than fit the curves of a normal human body. To most designers a woman’s curves get in the way of how they want their clothes to look. You can see this…

OK. You don’t have to. Without doxxing myself, one of my relatives is a very prominent lawyer for one of the major fashion houses. I know my shit. Also, they would never say “Saint Laurent.” It’s Yves Saint Laurent or YSL only.

There’s no way to verify if this is the father and even if he is, there’s no way to verify what kind of father he is. I’m sure there are plenty of dads of girls w/ eating disorders (NOT accusing her) who would say their daughter is super super healthy.

Well, no, because the model herself isn’t at issue here. If you read the ASA statement, it is very carefully worded to make sure that what they’re saying is “the model appears too thin” as opposed to “the model is too thin”. If the model appears too thin, then the onus is on YSL, the photographer, the set designer,…

I don’t know if I agree that she should be named. It’s not about her, and naming her risks turning the conversation into a debate about her body, which is so fucking wrong that I can’t even articulate it. When you see an ad on tv for ice cream or life insurance or whatever, they don’t name the working actors pictured…

Tbf, the ad was pulled because “he model appeared unhealthily underweight in the image,” so it doesn’t really matter if the model is underweight or suffering from an eating disorder in actuality, the issue is the perception that the ad is promoting unhealthy body standards.

What difference does it make what she thinks? This isn’t about her, this is about how advertising affects women in general. It’s the Advertising Standards Authority, not the Health and Safety Executive or whatever. Note how the decision talks about how the ad makes her appear, not about what she might look like irl or…

Fashion’s obsession with this aesthetic is why she gets work. Why would she talk shit about that?

Policing her body isn’t the point of this initiative; she has the form she has and it’s none of our business. I think it would be overstepping, and also incredibly rude, to seek her out and grill her about her weight and health.

umm...being openly meanspirited, especially to the elderly, is always off limits. at least it is for us decent human beings.

I demand you abide by the moral precept that says, when you criticize someone’s appearance, you are morally obligated to post a picture of yourself. Come on, open up the picture app.

well that was a jerk thing to say

I’m 46, a research prof, and not at NU, but I found Kipnis’ article off-putting. Faculty, really, it’s not that difficult - don’t fuck undergrads and do not fuck grad students in your department. We had a similar referendum at my university recently and it prompted absolutely zero discussion because it’s absolutely a…

With the risk of doxxing myself, I go to NU and am a grad student. I think her essay is in extremely poor taste since the “great prohibition” came out of a professor being a complete fucking creep (Peter Ludlow). Yes, it’s messed up to prohibit people from loving each other, but it hasn’t been socially acceptable for…

SAME

Oh I don’t know, how can the affections of a lowly jezebel commenter weigh against the mighty wrath of the Mighty Jezebel Bloggers?

For some reason all snark on Jez towards Rita Ora is only making me like her more.