March 13, 2009 Winner of the Shut the Fuck Up Files for this week
Fashion ‘writer’ Mindy Laube banging on about yucky yucky fat.
Ms Laube makes what she seems to think is a compelling aesthetic ‘argument’ for loudly proclaiming (no really, in bolded capitals) that the average woman in Australia is 5’4″ and a size 14, and announces that that is (always and uncontrivertibly and in EVERY CASE) “FAT!” and goes on to expound on how disgusting fat is.
Apparently (based on the school photos of Ms Laube) we’ve, as a nation ‘let oursevles go’ and have gotten WAAAAAAAAAAY fatter!
There were NO overweight boys when SHE was growing up and only ONE fat girl and ONE fat teacher! QED. (What are you taking lessons in logic from Sam in the City???)
Here’s an idea: if you wanna pull a stat out of your arse, then in order to ‘prove’ the big differences between now and then maybe you ought to COMPARE YOUR STATS ACRSS TIME instead of let us collectively wade through your fucking YEAR BOOK for evidence, fool!
She drops clangers such as weight comes from sloth and gluttony, and teenage girls with bellies in bikinis are a symptom of a majorly upsetting societal ill that only Ms Laube has the intestinal fortitude to tackle: We’re LACKING VANITY!!!
Mindy Laube? SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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Aileen Wuornos
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Hahaha, oh I couldn’t have said it better myself.
If she hadn’t used such a uh, obvious lack of real facts, maybe she should remember health =\= fashion
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su
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Heh. I love your method of dispatching teh stoopid. There’s been quite an epidemic of statsouttathearse syndrome lately, although in Bettina’s case it was more a case of a whole research study.
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Amanda
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LOL. And I suppose the term “Rubenesque” refers to Ruben Studdard 2003 American Idol contestant not a freakin 500 year dead painter. Tres modern!
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fuckpoliteness
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You know I write shit like this and feel like I’m REPEATING myself, but honest to god, can’t people who are paid to write DO SO and do it well? Grr!
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Helen
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That’s what’s so unfair about blogging *pouts*, people are all Look at the Stoopid Bloggers Can’t Write, and I am constantly opening a newspaper and headdesking with the extreme badness of the writing (and the thinking behind the writing).
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fuckpoliteness
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I know! And they get PAID to continue to leak that excrement!
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Linda Radfem
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“You know I write shit like this and feel like I’m REPEATING myself, but honest to god, can’t people who are paid to write DO SO and do it well? Grr!”
They don’t get paid to write well, they get paid to say the “right” things and circulate the “right” messages according to patriarchy’s rules and double standards.
There is no such thing as “letting oneself go”. It’s called ageing and it’s not a fucking crime (yet).
It’s usually used to refer to any woman who has had the audacity to get older without upping the level of painting, dyeing, plucking, waxing, squeezing, starving, over-exerting, surgically-”enhancing”, pushing upwards or just generally abusing her hideous by default body, to the degree the culture dictates necessary.
When men complain that their long term partner has let herself go, I like to fantasise that the woman in question has had an amazing lightbulb moment, where she has wised up to the fact that the unrealistic and downright barbaric ideals that are imposed on us are just that, and has made an empowering decision to never perform femininity again.