Rings
[venting klaxon]
Right, what is it with magazines drawing rings round some famous lady’s wobbly bits and then pointing at it and going ‘LOOK! LOOK AT HER FAT BIT! SEE, SHE’S DISGUSTING JUST LIKE YOU ARE!’
Actually, in my opinion, it’s disgusting that people should be made to feel insecure about wobbly bits and stretchy bits and hairy bits when, really, we’re all just human beings and come in different shapes and sizes and function in pretty much the same way, and having wobbly bits and stretchy bits and bits which catch crumbs when you eat biscuits is really QUITE NORMAL and should not be RINGED as if in a FREAK SHOW to be laughed at and delighted in.
It is not nice. So there.
Sort it OUT, magazines. Give us some body images we can celebrate, not vilify.
[venting over klaxon]
*packs red sharpie pen for this evening*
LMAO you’ll run out of ink
I find the whole celebrity gossip thing rather bizarre for the most part anyway. The creepiest ones are when some paparazzi bell-end tries to get an upskirt-esque picture of a woman getting out of a car.
The nasty red rings are the reason I’ve stopped buying magazines. As if I don’t feel shite enough about my body!
I laugh and point at people who buy these magazines…. Horrible, nasty, pointless wastes of paper. :p
Most of the women without the rings are airbrushed and they don’t even bother doing it well or believably any more. They might as well just be done with the photos and computer generate the whole thing. The headlines could just be ‘today in the editors room we decided to make Beyonce skinny and Kerry Katona fat, come back next week when we swap them over’.
I don’t buy these magazines but was left with one in the hairdressers the other day and if you look closely you can see the corners where they have shaved bits off their thighs and when they do a full length pose they shrink the body in relation to the head so their hips aren’t even as wide as their face. The whole thing’s ridiculous and more fool anyone who buys into it. Women can be their own worst enemies sometimes.
It’s another form of what those sororities do to their pledges, stripping them off and humiliating them by ringing parts of them and labelling it as ‘fat’.Don’t do it to the men though do they? Us girls can be our own worst enemies in rather nasty ways and it’s just really sad. I just buy running magazines. No fat ringing in them, just celebrating what people are capable of. Much healthier!
I couldn’t agree more.
I noticed a nasty red ring around my fat wobbly arse this morning… but then I had been sitting on the loo for rather a long time. Is that they kind of thing you mean?
It is awful and the worst thing is that they then lose weight and get circled for being too skinny. We are going to have a hard job on our hands to raise our female generation without them having major insecurities about how they look. Magazines should be ashamed of themselves xx
Magazines have a lot to answer for *rolls up sleeves*