Wednesday, August 19, 2009

A bona fide posting frenzy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1207567/Posh-modelled-Victoria-Beckham-doppelganger-showcases-new-collection.html?ITO=1490

Thin people get the "but she doesn't look as healthy as she could" schtick too. She actually looks fine to me, but that's beside the point. I just don't think you can make an assumption about people based on their size. Anyway, they don't have any responsibility to you to look "healthy". I'm not even qualified to get into the ableism of it all. Statistics do not describe individuals!!!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Hate Crime

This is a couple weeks old now, but it's still appearing in the news and it's still bothering me. This article sums it up pretty well: http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/08/14/guest-post-dead-girls/