men like this make me want to castrate them
So, SPIKE TV has an article titled The Top 7 Butterbodies. The beginning of the article states, "The true definition of a butterbody is a woman who has a beautiful face but a body that's gone to butter. It's like the butterface, but in reverse. If you are rich and famous, there is no excuse for being a butterbody. It's your job to look fit and hot. Celebrities are not like normal people. They have the means to pay for a full time trainer and for someone to prepare their meals."
The author of this disgustingly offensive article is a major douchebag named Nick Coles, and this is what he looks like:
Well, word of the article has been going around, and basically he and SPIKE TV are getting new assholes ripped for them, which is WELL deserved.
Article with 30+ pages of comments on ONTD
A guy named Tyler Coates on Tumblr on the author: This is the amateur headshot of Nick Coles, the man who wrote the "Top 7 Butterbodies" listicle on Spike.com yesterday (the link goes to Maura's post, because I don't like rewarding assholes with pageviews). Please pay close attention to his thinning hair and fatty neck. I certainly hope he nailed that UCB audition with his fat-girl jokes.
Then, a good article on afterellen.com: Spike TV has body issues. FUCK men (and women, for that matter) who think like this, and who have the nerve to try and make women feel bad about themselves because they are not stick-thin. It makes me ABSOLUTELY ILL.
cebastiankraine
2009-01-20 06:33 pm UTC (link)
While I completely agree with you, I think women have more to do with what is considered beautiful than men do.
What I mean by that is that this stick thin mentality originated with fashion models in fashion magazines. The more Vogue and Cosmo featured skinnier women, the more women wrote to them in a positive way. There skinny-fetish came from the fact that women who wrote about runway models wrote as if the only way to look good in the clothes would be to look stick thin, too.
I don't know....
My straight man friends do not enjoy stick thin women. The guys that I know that do like that are total douche bags. I get asked all the damn time by my dude friends why women are so obsessed over their way.
It's very hard for a hetero man to understand why a magazine/tv show/whatever would ever make a woman anxious about her weight. My girlfriends are the first to comment on a woman in public in regards to her weight/appearance and it's almost always in a negative way. If there's a dude friend around, they're usually looking at me like "wtf?" and I have to shrug my shoulders as if I don't understand.
This comment is not meant to downplay the assholishness of the article you posted and the men behind it all, but I just wanted to add my own observations.
humanoid27
2009-01-20 07:32 pm UTC (link)
so basically they posted photos of really pretty women and just told us that they're not...?
not very clever...
... and the irony is that all these women look healthier and more desirable as 'butter bodies'* than as the skin and bone size zero catwalk models this man (i assume) seems to covet!
some people are strange...
neverletgo
2009-01-20 08:34 pm UTC (link)
I read part of that article when it was posted on ONTD, but I couldn't get through the whole thing because I was DISGUSTED.
no_worries
2009-01-20 09:48 pm UTC (link)
and you know what? When I was thin I got made fun of A LOT. I have always been made fun of, my nickname was Olive Oyl. I was told left and right that I was anorexic, which was crap since I hate the nachos at HRC everyday and still weighed 110. I was told that I was too skinny, even though my weight was right for my body. Now that I'm 130 I don't get made fun of, but I feel horrible about how I look. Yes, I know most people would slap me for feeling bad about being 130, but I am short and have a very small frame. Shit, even when I was 160 I was getting hit on, but I felt horrible about myself, because I had gone from being on the lower end of the weight spectrum for my height to the polar oppiste. I had become obese. Before I was healthy, had a good BMI, and muscular. By the time I snapped out of my depression I realized that I had lost my hips, instead of having any curves, I had become straight up and down, and my belly was bigger than my boobs.
Those people are just talking out of their asses. They would make fun of someone for being "too skinny" and spreading runors about them being anorexic, and they make fun of people who have normal bodies. It's all hype. Nobody is perfect. And that is the bottom line. Even the Hollywood image of perfection isn't real perfection because the tabloids will spin it all sorts of ways; shes eating too much, shes not eating at all, shes addicted to exercising. . . etc.
Still, being skinny isn't all that. Being healthy is. If you are healthy then weight should matter.
lilliah
2009-01-20 10:13 pm UTC (link)
I love love love love people who talk smack about the way others look when they themselves wouldn't be considered runway or glossy material even with Industrial Airbrush.
What an asshole. It is NOT a celebrity's job to look like a fucking toothpick. It is their job to act/sing/write/whatever they're famous for. Models are employed to "look good", this is true, but even they can have a not-hot moment from time to time. People are people and we're all fucking imperfect and this guy should take his aesthetic high horse and shove it up his ass.
hylianrae
2009-01-20 11:26 pm UTC (link)
I think every single one of those women is hot. And, hey, you're hot too, and you need to be less harsh on yourself. (I never answered your question a few weeks back: I am a size 14 but I am tall: 5'10". Still, I think you're hot, and if you're going to change your eating habits, let it be more for health reasons and not for looks, k?) :)
supremegoddess1
2009-01-21 03:10 am UTC (link)
...you're right, and the article is right.
but as a (semi only met you once) friend, i'm going to remind you that sara ramirez is gorgeous, and you aren't as big as she is. take some of your well-deserved anger at this post, swallow it, and realize that you're beautiful, exactly as you are. you're not fat, nor are any of these women.
i_am_may
2009-01-21 09:05 am UTC (link)
agreed x a million!!!!
ugh i want to throw up on his smugass face...
The author of this disgustingly offensive article is a major douchebag named Nick Coles, and this is what he looks like:
Well, word of the article has been going around, and basically he and SPIKE TV are getting new assholes ripped for them, which is WELL deserved.
Article with 30+ pages of comments on ONTD
A guy named Tyler Coates on Tumblr on the author: This is the amateur headshot of Nick Coles, the man who wrote the "Top 7 Butterbodies" listicle on Spike.com yesterday (the link goes to Maura's post, because I don't like rewarding assholes with pageviews). Please pay close attention to his thinning hair and fatty neck. I certainly hope he nailed that UCB audition with his fat-girl jokes.
Then, a good article on afterellen.com: Spike TV has body issues. FUCK men (and women, for that matter) who think like this, and who have the nerve to try and make women feel bad about themselves because they are not stick-thin. It makes me ABSOLUTELY ILL.
cebastiankraine
2009-01-20 06:33 pm UTC (link)
While I completely agree with you, I think women have more to do with what is considered beautiful than men do.
What I mean by that is that this stick thin mentality originated with fashion models in fashion magazines. The more Vogue and Cosmo featured skinnier women, the more women wrote to them in a positive way. There skinny-fetish came from the fact that women who wrote about runway models wrote as if the only way to look good in the clothes would be to look stick thin, too.
I don't know....
My straight man friends do not enjoy stick thin women. The guys that I know that do like that are total douche bags. I get asked all the damn time by my dude friends why women are so obsessed over their way.
It's very hard for a hetero man to understand why a magazine/tv show/whatever would ever make a woman anxious about her weight. My girlfriends are the first to comment on a woman in public in regards to her weight/appearance and it's almost always in a negative way. If there's a dude friend around, they're usually looking at me like "wtf?" and I have to shrug my shoulders as if I don't understand.
This comment is not meant to downplay the assholishness of the article you posted and the men behind it all, but I just wanted to add my own observations.
humanoid27
2009-01-20 07:32 pm UTC (link)
so basically they posted photos of really pretty women and just told us that they're not...?
not very clever...
... and the irony is that all these women look healthier and more desirable as 'butter bodies'* than as the skin and bone size zero catwalk models this man (i assume) seems to covet!
some people are strange...
neverletgo
2009-01-20 08:34 pm UTC (link)
I read part of that article when it was posted on ONTD, but I couldn't get through the whole thing because I was DISGUSTED.
no_worries
2009-01-20 09:48 pm UTC (link)
and you know what? When I was thin I got made fun of A LOT. I have always been made fun of, my nickname was Olive Oyl. I was told left and right that I was anorexic, which was crap since I hate the nachos at HRC everyday and still weighed 110. I was told that I was too skinny, even though my weight was right for my body. Now that I'm 130 I don't get made fun of, but I feel horrible about how I look. Yes, I know most people would slap me for feeling bad about being 130, but I am short and have a very small frame. Shit, even when I was 160 I was getting hit on, but I felt horrible about myself, because I had gone from being on the lower end of the weight spectrum for my height to the polar oppiste. I had become obese. Before I was healthy, had a good BMI, and muscular. By the time I snapped out of my depression I realized that I had lost my hips, instead of having any curves, I had become straight up and down, and my belly was bigger than my boobs.
Those people are just talking out of their asses. They would make fun of someone for being "too skinny" and spreading runors about them being anorexic, and they make fun of people who have normal bodies. It's all hype. Nobody is perfect. And that is the bottom line. Even the Hollywood image of perfection isn't real perfection because the tabloids will spin it all sorts of ways; shes eating too much, shes not eating at all, shes addicted to exercising. . . etc.
Still, being skinny isn't all that. Being healthy is. If you are healthy then weight should matter.
lilliah
2009-01-20 10:13 pm UTC (link)
I love love love love people who talk smack about the way others look when they themselves wouldn't be considered runway or glossy material even with Industrial Airbrush.
What an asshole. It is NOT a celebrity's job to look like a fucking toothpick. It is their job to act/sing/write/whatever they're famous for. Models are employed to "look good", this is true, but even they can have a not-hot moment from time to time. People are people and we're all fucking imperfect and this guy should take his aesthetic high horse and shove it up his ass.
hylianrae
2009-01-20 11:26 pm UTC (link)
I think every single one of those women is hot. And, hey, you're hot too, and you need to be less harsh on yourself. (I never answered your question a few weeks back: I am a size 14 but I am tall: 5'10". Still, I think you're hot, and if you're going to change your eating habits, let it be more for health reasons and not for looks, k?) :)
supremegoddess1
2009-01-21 03:10 am UTC (link)
...you're right, and the article is right.
but as a (semi only met you once) friend, i'm going to remind you that sara ramirez is gorgeous, and you aren't as big as she is. take some of your well-deserved anger at this post, swallow it, and realize that you're beautiful, exactly as you are. you're not fat, nor are any of these women.
i_am_may
2009-01-21 09:05 am UTC (link)
agreed x a million!!!!
ugh i want to throw up on his smugass face...