Once again, the only person that brought up the average woman was not a brand aiming themselves towards 19 year olds, so the BMI for 19 year olds is irrelevant when discussing Barbie’s use of the word “average”.

This makes me sad, because I consciously try to spin the “I’m lucky” narrative not as a gender issue, but as an acknowledgement of all the privileges I’ve been able to take advantage of to get to where I am. I say it as a way to be subversive, to argue against the concept that just working hard will get you everywhere…

This comment thread is what I’m taking issue with, so saying “well this thread is about college women!” doesn’t help - the issue is that this thread is making it about college women, when it’s not. Barbie wasn’t using average to define herself in relation to college women. Barbie is not Aerie. Note that the only use…

Modeling looks much easier than it is. It’s more than doing normal things and looking pretty.

They probably didn’t share it so they weren’t putting a loudspeaker on hateful comments. The point of this article is to be positive towards this woman - it would suck if it was written in a way where she can’t even read it because it includes hateful, body-shaming tweets at her.

Yeah but no one said she was the average 19 year old. As much as this may shock you, women outside of a model’s age group also buy clothing. What the average 19 year old weighs is completely irrelevant to this point.

“ I just don’t think most people see it that way, or really care about anyone else’s hair style.”

I am not speaking to people saying “hey maybe you should consider this option!” I am speaking to those who came in with insults and judgment on meat eaters.

That is very emphatically not what I am doing.

I assume you never buy anything that was ever made with child labor - or if you do, you agonize over every choice. I assume you only ever shop local to avoid the atrocities large corporations wreak on the world. I assume you never use paper plates, use only your own grocery bags, don’t own a car, donate the majority…

I agree. All of my comments still stand though.

Go re-read the comments. I’m disgusting and self-indulgent, according to the self-professed smug vegetarians here. And that doesn’t even include the comments that are clear judgement but don’t have any outright insults in them.

I think the important thing in this comment section is that the vegetarians/vegans found a way to make sweeping, nasty insults towards everyone else while feeling like a superior human specimen.

Anyone who knows anything about what’s going on politically knows how idiotic what you just said was.

I thought it was like a “bless his heart” kind of thing.

I had a nun who ran my dorm (yay catholic college) and she pulled this. She looked over all of us freshman year and said “I know right now which one of you are rulebreakers and which ones aren’t.”

...People are “fascinated” with it because they like it.

I would recommend reading the comments of the other dozen people that asked it on this article because their question is so unique that it has to be asked a dozen times and answered individually each time.

You’re the one assuming “general populace” means “every person in the entire world”. I was unfair in assuming you had the basic intelligence necessary to understand words like “populace”. My bad!

So what you’re telling me is the entirety of the US population reads Kotaku?! WOW!