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"Weight Stereotyping" in Glamour

Journal Entry: Sun May 6, 2012, 9:43 AM


If you're a watcher of mine you've probably seen this, since it's one of my most popular deviations and has had a prominent place on my user page for a while:


As I mentioned in the artist notes, it was created as my personal response to a magazine (I think it was Marie Claire but I don't remember) allowing and even celebrating the implication that only women who are not thin are real women.  Even though magazines prominently feature thin models, this sort of editorial is quite common and almost expected of them in order to prove that they are indeed in favor of "real women."

Well, I finally found an article about weight stereotyping in Glamour that also acknowledges the undue hatred directed toward thin women! :la:  And since many of my watchers have agreed with the issues raised by my comics, I thought I would bring it to your attention:

Weight Stereotyping: The Secret Way People Are Judging You Based on Your Body, on glamour.com

Please give it a read. =)

  • Mood: Eager
  • Listening to: Lana Del Rey - This Is What Makes Us Girls

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Born and raised in Boston, MA. Studying Graphic Design in New York City.
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I like your icon. You're very pretty. :wave:

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~1and1isme Feb 9, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Hello you :) I stubmled upon your page through the HWL forums, very nice gallery you have. Keep up the good work :)

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*RavynneNevyrmore Feb 9, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Thank you. :D

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~1and1isme Feb 10, 2012  Student Digital Artist
You're welcome :D
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*Rio-Lightning Feb 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Your post on my Forum post. Was really moving. I don't like negitive comments, and I get a lot of them. :( Why do people feel it's in their best interest to post crappy things to people seeking help?
Thank you for your long, and very nice (Glares at the other person who comments) and helpful post <3 I wish I could be there too. Since it seems I'll be single for a while.

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*RavynneNevyrmore Feb 6, 2012  Student Digital Artist
"Why do people feel it's in their best interest to post crappy things to people seeking help? "

I've been trying to figure that out since I got here. If people's problems annoy them they shouldn't be reading about people's problems. The HWL forum's description says it is for loving and caring advice, so people who recognize that they don't meet the qualifications should find entertainment elsewhere. Going to a help forum and trashing on someone who is obviously already in a bad emotional place is like going to a playground and beating up a two year old to make themselves feel tough. I wish they would enforce rules about excessive cruelty in that forum (as well as rules about telling people their ideas are stupid/unnecessary in the Suggestions forum).

I also tend to run into a lot of self-centered people on the internet, so another common reaction to turning to others online is "OMG NO ONE CARES YOUR PROBLEMS ARE ANNOYING. So anyway blah blah blah my own interests..." I'm very sick of it, but I guess the internet kind of attracts the dregs of society because they can't socialize properly offline.

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~jlmei Jan 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
hi
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*RavynneNevyrmore Jan 10, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Hi. o.O Who are you?

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~jlmei Jan 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
"Then she probably isn't interested. Stop creeping and move on. "
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*RavynneNevyrmore Jan 10, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Yeah, I didn't mean to me. :paranoid: Keep moving, buddy...

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