Women Have To Stop Starving Themselves Past The Point Of Hotness
Okay, so I really like The Onion and think most of its articles are funny and satirical. I've even found some distinctly feminist articles there, like the one about the 'glass ceiling' which I've posted here before.
So how did this appalling piece of crap find its way there?
Women Have To Stop Starving Themselves Past The Point Of Hotness
An excerpt:
Avoiding eating in order to improve your appearance is part of being a woman, and it's natural for a woman to devote all of her time to achieving a figure pleasing to the male eye. While there are many ways to get hot, one of the simplest, fastest, and most effective is through self-starvation. However, anorexia, like all things, is best used in moderation. For example, you should never get so thin that you lose your tits.
I've seen it time and time again: A woman of "normal" weight buys a scale, tapes pictures from W magazine to her refrigerator, draws a weight chart on her bathroom mirror, and makes a commitment to subsisting on iced tea and steamed broccoli. She resists the temptation to cheat, and slowly, her will power is rewarded: The butterfly emerges from its chrysalis. The pounds melt off, and she is undeniably hot.
But then, sometimes, inexplicably, something goes wrong. Rather than maintaining her new slim, sexy body through marathon training and obsessive calorie counting, a woman will continue to shed pounds, starving herself-dreadfully, heartrendingly-way past the point of hotness.
Reality check, ladies: If your ass resembles your scapula, you are in the danger zone. That kind of thing is not attractive.
It's like I told my ex-girlfriend Lisa: Feminine fragility is a plus, but if I actually snap your arm while having sex with you, you've gone too far. A woman should have a pleasingly light, impossibly fragile appearance, much like a piece of fine china, but if her body has begun digesting the calcium in its bones to sustain its necessary functions, there is a good chance she has starved herself beyond the point where I would even want to have sex with her at all.
Fat on the upper arms, hips, or waist is a turn-off, but there should be a thin matting of fat underneath the skin to prevent a man from being able to make out your skeletal system. A lot of girls don't know this, but slightly rounded, healthy appearing limbs are sexier than rail-thin ones, provided a man can still wrap his hands around your waist. Women like the emaciated thing, but guys actually like it if a girl's upper thigh is a shade wider than her knee.
It's heartbreaking to see a chick who's too anorexic. Don't get me wrong, because a little bit is a plus, but when I see a too-anorexic chick, I always imagine her spending night after night running on her treadmill, trolling the Internet for diet tips, doing stomach crunches in her cubicle, eating head after head of iceberg lettuce-all the while tragically unaware that, at her weight, she could probably be eating 1,000 calories a day. At least 700. Ironically, all her work has left her so crazy skinny, she's as desirable as that fat cow Kate Winslet.
Ladies, if you are suffering from too much anorexia, I urge you, in the name of all that is alluring, increase your calorie consumption by about 10 percent. Treat yourself to a bite of your boyfriend's sandwich. Drink a glass of skim milk. See what happens. You might see your ribs filling out a little, and that might frighten you, but please remember: We men like a woman who's obsessively fit and trim, but no one wants to bang a concentration-camp prisoner.
Harness the power of your misery and poor body image. You've got a good thing going with that. But just don't go too far.
I kept waiting for the sarcasm but there was none. By the time I reached the point where he called Kate Winslet 'a fat cow', I realized that there this really wasn't supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.
Does anyone else see the trademark Onion satire/funniness that I seem to be missing? This guy actually thinks he is being funny, and apparently so do the folks at The Onion. I am really disappointed.
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Edit: Thank you everyone, for your comments. Apparently, just like beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, so does satire. Many of you found this article funny and got the humor, while some didn't and were as disgusted and turned off as I was.
All I'll say is that while most Onion op-eds have me doubled over with laughter, this one didn't. I thought it was very badly written and failed to make a point. While I don't believe in censorship, and think that most everything should be a good candidate for being poked fun at, it is only a really skilled and astute person who can actually pull off humor about sensitive subjects, without coming off as offensive.
So how did this appalling piece of crap find its way there?
Women Have To Stop Starving Themselves Past The Point Of Hotness
An excerpt:
Avoiding eating in order to improve your appearance is part of being a woman, and it's natural for a woman to devote all of her time to achieving a figure pleasing to the male eye. While there are many ways to get hot, one of the simplest, fastest, and most effective is through self-starvation. However, anorexia, like all things, is best used in moderation. For example, you should never get so thin that you lose your tits.
I've seen it time and time again: A woman of "normal" weight buys a scale, tapes pictures from W magazine to her refrigerator, draws a weight chart on her bathroom mirror, and makes a commitment to subsisting on iced tea and steamed broccoli. She resists the temptation to cheat, and slowly, her will power is rewarded: The butterfly emerges from its chrysalis. The pounds melt off, and she is undeniably hot.
But then, sometimes, inexplicably, something goes wrong. Rather than maintaining her new slim, sexy body through marathon training and obsessive calorie counting, a woman will continue to shed pounds, starving herself-dreadfully, heartrendingly-way past the point of hotness.
Reality check, ladies: If your ass resembles your scapula, you are in the danger zone. That kind of thing is not attractive.
It's like I told my ex-girlfriend Lisa: Feminine fragility is a plus, but if I actually snap your arm while having sex with you, you've gone too far. A woman should have a pleasingly light, impossibly fragile appearance, much like a piece of fine china, but if her body has begun digesting the calcium in its bones to sustain its necessary functions, there is a good chance she has starved herself beyond the point where I would even want to have sex with her at all.
Fat on the upper arms, hips, or waist is a turn-off, but there should be a thin matting of fat underneath the skin to prevent a man from being able to make out your skeletal system. A lot of girls don't know this, but slightly rounded, healthy appearing limbs are sexier than rail-thin ones, provided a man can still wrap his hands around your waist. Women like the emaciated thing, but guys actually like it if a girl's upper thigh is a shade wider than her knee.
It's heartbreaking to see a chick who's too anorexic. Don't get me wrong, because a little bit is a plus, but when I see a too-anorexic chick, I always imagine her spending night after night running on her treadmill, trolling the Internet for diet tips, doing stomach crunches in her cubicle, eating head after head of iceberg lettuce-all the while tragically unaware that, at her weight, she could probably be eating 1,000 calories a day. At least 700. Ironically, all her work has left her so crazy skinny, she's as desirable as that fat cow Kate Winslet.
Ladies, if you are suffering from too much anorexia, I urge you, in the name of all that is alluring, increase your calorie consumption by about 10 percent. Treat yourself to a bite of your boyfriend's sandwich. Drink a glass of skim milk. See what happens. You might see your ribs filling out a little, and that might frighten you, but please remember: We men like a woman who's obsessively fit and trim, but no one wants to bang a concentration-camp prisoner.
Harness the power of your misery and poor body image. You've got a good thing going with that. But just don't go too far.
I kept waiting for the sarcasm but there was none. By the time I reached the point where he called Kate Winslet 'a fat cow', I realized that there this really wasn't supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.
Does anyone else see the trademark Onion satire/funniness that I seem to be missing? This guy actually thinks he is being funny, and apparently so do the folks at The Onion. I am really disappointed.
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Edit: Thank you everyone, for your comments. Apparently, just like beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, so does satire. Many of you found this article funny and got the humor, while some didn't and were as disgusted and turned off as I was.
All I'll say is that while most Onion op-eds have me doubled over with laughter, this one didn't. I thought it was very badly written and failed to make a point. While I don't believe in censorship, and think that most everything should be a good candidate for being poked fun at, it is only a really skilled and astute person who can actually pull off humor about sensitive subjects, without coming off as offensive.