Real women

[apricotflower]

real women

Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know better.

Real women do not have curves.   Real women do not look like just one thing.

Real women have curves, and not.   They are tall, and not.  They are brown-skinned, and olive-skinned, and not.  They have

Comments

[zedmeister]

You should post the whole thing here!

[apricotflower]

I would, except it's _f policy to post only excerpts from personal blogs, which I believe this one is. From the posting guidelines:

If you are posting an article from a blog, rather than a larger news organization, please post ONLY an excerpt and link back to the blog so that our members can read the rest there. We do not want to deprive feminist bloggers of visitors; we want to support their work.

[zedmeister]

Ah, you're right.

[classical_wolf]

I agree.

[danceprincess20]

Exactly.

[ladygemtepz]

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[sequence_fairy]

This has been floating around my facebook flist lately, and I was hoping it would show up here. It really resonated with me, and I really love it.

[yeats]

how awesome...and yet how depressing that even what seems like a completely sensible post attracts transphobic wank in the comments.

[seasontoseason]

I don't think it is wank. I don't think it is even transphobic, though it certainly doesn't seem to accept whole the "propositions" (can't think of a better word at the moment) of transgender-ism (again, can't think of a better word, my apologies).

[anacas]

m Andrea's comments on that post are pretty much the definition of transphobic wank, actually.