No. And if you read another post I made in this comments section, I actually mentioned Joan in 'Mad Men'. I was saying that most of the clothes designed these days, the fashion that is in style right now, does drape better on a thin, tall body. And exceptions would be corsets and the type of dresses Joan wears on Mad…

the italian prosecution has to move on and get over it. they fucked up the investigation and the trial and they lost and we'll never know if knox and sollecito did it. it sucks but c'est la vie. they can't just keep trying them forever.

Other than that, I am done with you.

agree. VS is generic and commercial. however, i do understand why they would think upton doesn't fit in with the brand. they have a certain aesthetic and they stick to it. all their models are thin thin thin but with visible muscle tone, looooong legs and narrow hips and torsos. small boobs or breast implants. there's…

it'll change when that aesthetic no longer sells. but they're not pushing that aesthetic and those styles and those models because nobody likes them. if that were the case they'd be out of business. i find it a little patronising that you assume you know better what people want in fashion, what they want to wear, the…

i actually agree with you a lot more than you think. 'the vagaries of contemporary taste' - what if we were talking 100 years ago when a much more voluptuous silhouette was in style and it was the poor, thin gawky girls who were left out? my point is, fashion is vain. and will always idealise one type over another.…

I bet this has more to do with the fact that Miley very recently did that infamous shoot with Terry Richardson and Teller didn't want everyone to immediately draw comparisons between his and Richardson's work.

yes, in theory i agree with you but you won't see that change in your lifetime and neither will i and just whining petulantly because the olsen twins aren't singlehandedly changing fashion and what we perceive as attractive in one campaign shot is just silly. look at art history. all throughout humanity's history,…

'trained to believe'? so is that what you think of anyone whose opinions don't align with yours? it's about silhouette. and your comment that it's the same as saying 'clothes simply look better on white models' is ridiculous because different colours look good or bad on different skin tones and that chartreuse green…

i knew someone would whine about the models still being thin and white. i'll give you lack of diversity, fine, they could have used models who weren't white. but their clothes - and in fact, most designers' clothes - simply look better and drape better on a tall, thin body than on a heavy one. i can't say i blame…

I used adams and banks as examples because they're perhaps the best known, but gaiman, pratchett and martin definitely deserve recognition. but i was using sci-fi and fantasy as examples of literary genres that are often overlooked or deemed 'lesser than' and that despite being mostly male-dominated fields, to…

And what I'm saying is that we need to stop judging books based on gender and start judging based on quality.

or we can make a distinction between 'chick lit' as in fluffy, weiner-esque popular romance stuff, and literature written by female writers. take the sci-fi and fantasy genre. it's mostly written by males and read by males. and though there are exceptions, it also tends to not be taken seriously by the literary…

yes, it's a universal theme. however, not everyone wants to read romantic chick lit (and i include nicholas sparks in that category) or watch rom-coms. it doesn't mean i hate all romance but i'd rather get it out of movies like 'high fidelity', 'before sunrise', 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, 'jane eyre' or…

of course i'm generalising for argument's sake but as someone who will read pretty much anything, i've read my fair share of romance novels and sure, they're entertaining but i take them as seriously as an episode of the 'real housewives'. and yes, there are exceptions. bridget jones is a step above weiner and the…

something like 'the da vinci code' is more universal than, say, 'the fast and the furious' (yes, i know it's a movie) which is not only male-centred, it's about something that only some men are going to like and virtually zero women. that, to me, would be the equivalent of weiner's appeal. it's a certain genre among…

Look, Dan Brown sucks. I'm just saying that even as a woman, I am far more entertained by Brown's stories despite the bad writing, badly drawn characters and overall cheesiness than the one weiner novel i basically read just to see what the fuss was about this woman. it's like listening to your annoying friend drone…

i think it has more to do with subject matter than if a man or a woman wrote it.

yes, j.k. rowling under any other name would have been just as popular i think.

i've seen weiner in the fiction section in bookstores too.