Somewhere in the process of questioning our desire to commodify skinny hot chicks, the general public concluded that an appropriate solution would be to commodify non-skinny women, too. Instead of reducing the attention we pay to women’s bodies, we came up with new euphemisms (“show off her curves”) and doubled down. Critics say it’s not enough for Mindy Kaling or Melissa McCarthy to land on the cover of Elle — they need to be stripped naked and their bodies need to be displayed, just as skinnier bodies are. The implication was, What, Elle, you cant put her big, fat body on the magazine? Kaling later joked. ’Why? ‘Cause shes just fat and gruesome? Why cant we look at her beautiful fat body? all of this!!!
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:00:33 +0000
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