Well, credit where credit's due; I'm just one woman/ambulatory baby factory standing on the shoulders of giants in the field of dehumanising women and disenfranchising them through language.

So if Romney wins, all the disenfranchised women, sorry, ambulatory baby factories, can safely go out and get tanked? Good to know.

How dare women express their own will through their own personal choices!

Just to say that you sound awesome.

I'm pretty sure that I remember Carrie Fisher confessing to starving herself once she found out that she was going to be wearing an itsy bitsy teeny weeny gold and red metallic bikini.

Right, but it's not just one ad; it's a further strand in an entire web of toxic media culture that tells us that older women who are considered insufficiently attractive deserve to be reviled, that their natural state is so revolting that they don't deserve to exist or do things in public spheres where someone who…

You're not the first to think so. ;)

In the UK, we've had this type of "traffic light" labelling in supermarkets for donkey's years, albeit in a slightly more complex from.

Thanks - I was inspired by all the awesome and articulate feminists posting on Jezebel. ;)

Hmm, if you were to combine the adult baby fetish with the furry fetish, you'd end up with a baby bird covered in a fuzzy coat. Problem solved!

Also, to actually reply to the body of your comment; I agree that the article seems to have been written by two separate people.

Interesting.

Sorry, just to add that I hope that doesn't sound patronising; I meant it in a sort of "I-was-a-little-bit-obsessed-with-Little-House-on-the-Prairie-growing-up cum-I-can't-imagine-how-tough-things-must-have-been".

Wow, sounds like you had a really interesting upbringing.

Himalayas-trekking parents or plain old economic hardship?

I hate to burst your bubble, but somehow I doubt Lochte is the one writing the scripts.

tl;dr

Where is this from and who is this?