Liberals need a positive, exciting reason to show up to the polls and unify the party.

This. People need to stop being entitled babies that need to be given a reason to vote. If trump being president for another 4 years isn’t reason enough I don’t know what’ll do it.

Preach.

Liberals need a positive, exciting reason to show up to the polls and unify the party.

I’ll take 4 years of Biden every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Who in their right mind thinks more Trump is the same thing?

I think it’s just the prevalence of social media in general. It’s all about capturing your lives in pics & videos. The pressure is so much higher to look prefect. Teens today look and dress like they’re 10 years older because of it. We had that whole issue with photoshopping/airbrushing magazine pics but it’s so much…

I used to drink a lot of milk (skim even) and my doctor told me to stop because it had too many calories. 

Milk is delicious in butter, cheese or ice cream form. On it’s own as a beverage? Bleh.

Nah, I’m a corgi with a bark-to-text translator and a decent understanding of American politics and Onion-style satire.

Yep, and the wellnesss/starvation/diet/getting a certain body which these days appears to be the thin but curvy is couched within body positivity because this is the body they are choosing for themselves, and while I can appreciate a person who does want to look a certain way and may be able to get there with a health…

Honestly, don’t ask ANY of the gods for anything. There’s always a catch you won’t think of, and it will probably involve a really nasty curse.

: )

I think I said something similar around here next week,

Not saying that this teenage white woman is wrong, but maybe there are more important things to put your energy into right now.

There is almost no celebration of stocky, fit women or girl athletes in media. Serena Williams is the closest I can think of (she’s not short enough to be stocky, but she’s solid), and look how much shit she gets about her body type (on top of being a dark skinned Black woman).

Tumblr was also pretty bad for this at one point, like depending on what ‘circles’ of tumblr you hung in but I’ve def randomly come across some pro ana and thinspo blogs over my years on there.

Oh god I loved Karen Carpenter. I guess most things aren’t new, they are just packaged differently. Have you heard of intermittent fasting? Some of my friends think it’s the greatest thing ever and I was like how is that not the same as an eating disorder? Notably, they all lose weight very rapidly and then gain it…

It appears on the surface that social media outlets are moving in a more body-inclusive and body-positive direction. However, starvation diets and “wellness” lifestyles seem just as strong as ever. 

A wise Jezzie explained to me that back in the day, models were honest. And then in the 1980s, we were able to start talking honestly about disordered eating and how it can literally kill people. That’s when PR people started clamping down on their clients about that honesty because celebrities didn’t want to be…

Kelly Ripa has a near-starvation diet as well. I used to be satisfied when celebrities were honest about what it took to maintain their extremely thin frames. But now I think it’s flat out irresponsible for anyone to condone these unrealistic diets or using supplements to replace real food.