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[phamos]

Generally Jessica Valenti and I tend to disagree on a lot of things (see a comment on another Feministing thread where she compares FGM to "designer vaginas" -- a similar comparison to the one that made me lose all interest in my Gender & Human Rights class a couple years ago), but I think she sums this one up right: People are assholes.

I mean, seriously. Jordin is not fat. She's certainly big, but she's big the way I'm big -- she's 5'10" and broad shouldered and kinda thick. Obese?? Not by a long shot. And to have that little twig of a blond woman say that Jordin's handlers are probably going to make her lose 40 pounds like that would be a GOOD thing makes me want to vomit. "I look at Jordin and I see diabetes, I see heart disease..." Christ, woman, you want to know what I see when I look at three-quarters of the girls in Hollywood? I see osteoporosis, I see drug addiction, I see bradycardia, I see amenorrhea, I see tooth decay. I see Mary Kate Olsen and Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie. Should they be "allowed" to win American Idol for the example they set?

Also, in the video clip they show pictures of LaKisha before they show pictures of Jordin. This pisses me off in a whole "They all look the same" kind of way -- seriously, the editors at Fox News can't tell apart the black girls on the show?

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[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

...i started to watch it. i had to stop.

jordin is beautiful, and it makes my heart hurt to see another one about to get her essence starved away.

lindsay lohan makes me sad the same way - a beautiful, unique young woman, ruined for no reason.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_katiekins/]

I saw that clip. Stupid skinny blond woman made me want to punch her sit on her. Then again, that Jordin girl is a big pro-life activist, so I'm not really a fan of hers either. Good thing I don't give a shit about AI.

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't really care one way or the other about AI either, and I certainly don't care for Jordin's politics. But I think it's just cruel to go on TV and talk about some 17-year-old girl being fat when she's totally not. That woman needs a swift kick in her bony behind.