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Louis Bruno's avatar

I agree. I think he meant well. I argue another point: I for am just glad that we’re celebrating a woman, at the very least and not a trans woman. That’s only two positives I took out of this debacle. Is she celebrity beautiful, no. Is she unhealthy? Yes. But it took guts for her to go out and show herself. Is it the results she wanted no. But maybe we should be arguing for heath standards and beauty to be tied together to make a balanced argument. What do you think?

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Black Mage's avatar

I'm a fat woman, and my husband and I got in an argument about this. His thoughts: there is no media push to normalize the pathological and Jordan P was just being a misogynist dick. Mine, being familiar with the ongoing argument about forced celebration, understood the context. But where we really argued was his thought that she should be celebrated because judging her body was mean-spirited. My thinking is that the woman is posing on the cover of a magazine issue that is historically made for masturbatory fantasy. I can critique a band for a new song i dont like. Their job is to play music. Why cant i critique a body whose job it is to be masturbation fodder? My good prog husband finds this to be a sort of victim-blaming on my part. Women have agency and might well be critiqued for offering themselves up as sexual fodder. An aside, to have her (or recent trans models) there at all is to some extent to capitalize on a mood that is primed for wanking, and therefore to be in the business of changing men's tastes. And that kind of social engineering that one is not allowed to critique is very authoritarian in my view.

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