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	eilan 2007-04-27 05:36 am UTC (link)
	I really adore the scale in the original post. Thin means curves and Emaciated means 'so thin she thinks you have an eating disorder'. Clearly, there is no in-between there. Oh, the irony. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-04-27 07:10 am UTC (link)
	I think Kate Winslet and Catherine Zeta Jones are, you know, NORMAL? Not fat and not thin? Just - regular ol' chicks! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	omega 2007-04-27 07:48 am UTC (link)
	But then again, while you and I thinnk they're normal, the industry that employs them considers them heavy. Something doesn't compute. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-04-27 07:55 am UTC (link)
	Well, that's because the industry is fucked up. But there's nothing you can do about weirdos like that. I'ma gonna sit here. And appreciate Kate and Catherine's 'fat bits' some more. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	omega 2007-04-27 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	No doubt. But I'm not surprised so many young girls are confused. Look at me, all in ur wank, seriousing ur reportz. Stopping now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-04-27 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, let's get back to the boobies now! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onyxnoir 2007-04-28 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Boobies? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	eilan 2007-04-27 08:08 am UTC (link)
	Which is why I am so 'surprised' she'd label them 'thin'. I mean, yes, if you call them thin, I'd probably count as anorexic with my 20.5 BMI. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	plazmah 2007-04-27 05:44 pm UTC (link)
	with my 20.5 BMI Gah, you too? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pastri_archy 2007-04-28 04:12 am UTC (link)
	I'm 19 something, but I'm also under 5ft and around 90lbs. I suppose most of that is fat. I don't understand why people envy my size. It's a pain in the ass to shop for clothes. /ToY (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frau_eva 2007-04-28 04:57 am UTC (link)
	Hon, everyone has trouble shopping for clothes. I don't see how clothing makers supposedly strive for the average measurements if I haven't met a women yet who finds clothes easily. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	karnythia 2007-04-28 05:25 am UTC (link)
	A friend who used to work in the industry says that the fit models are frequently transvestites. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	plazmah 2007-04-28 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	Oi, that sounds like clothes shopping would be tough indeed. I'm lucky to be a little taller and heavier than that! (Reply to this)(Parent)

suzycat
2007-04-29 11:04 am UTC (link)

I FEEL OPPRESSED BY UR BMI!!

Seriously, her view is all fucked up. She used to be oppressed for being 400lb, but now she's more oppressed for being roundish? The hell?

I believe I am a US 12 or possibly 10, but nobody's telling me to lose weight (or is "loose" the correct term these days). So therefore I cannot be one of these "in betweenies" and yet I am also not thin or emaciated! *Or* fat! OMG won't someone PLEASE give me something to feel oppressed about?!

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	hallidae 2007-04-27 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	I adore Kate Winslet, mostly because she had the balls to get pissed and make a public rant over magazines airbrushing her to make her look thinner. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-04-27 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	I'd probably do it too if I were in magazines and people were airbrushing me. I think she got mad when they said she'd been seeing special people in LA about a diet or plastic surgery or something, and she was mad because she says in interviews, over and over again, that she's happy with her bod and she'd never do that stuff. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chibikaijuu 2007-04-28 06:11 am UTC (link)
	I also believe that Emma Thompson once said that she'd never speak to her again if she ever lost weight (deliberately). Which is one of the many reasons why she, too, is fabulous. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-04-28 06:28 am UTC (link)
	I like UK celebs cause they seem to have a lot of fun and they're not quite as fucked up in the body image department as their US counterparts. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	april_hurst 2007-04-27 07:28 am UTC (link)
	It's like it was set up on purpose to make the "in-betweenies" appear to be the most oppressed and friendless, woe are they, all the fat people hang out together and the skinny people hang out together and they are all by their lonesomes. And anybody who thinks a size 10 is "upper end of thin Hollywood" is smoking crack. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amymccabe 2007-04-27 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Maybe 50 years ago, but certainly not anymore. I also fail to see how the "in-betweenies" are so oppressed. At least not more than any other women out there (and increasingly men) in a society that dictates you can never be thin enough. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	april_hurst 2007-04-27 03:24 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. She just wants to play her violin. If you're breathing, you're probably "oppressed" in some way. And strangely I've never chosen my friends based on weight and size. My college friends spanned roughly 4 to 24. I don't know what planet she lives on where that's the primary criterion. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amymccabe 2007-04-27 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. One of my best friends and I are size 26 and size 4. I have friends of all different sizes. I don't just befriend those of similar weight as I. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lyppy 2007-04-27 02:15 pm UTC (link)
	The upper end of thin Hollywood is more like a 6-4. But only a 6-4 with big boobs and a thin waist because then they're "curvy." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	altoidsaddict 2007-04-27 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	Valerie Bertinelli is, what, a 14? And she started this major I HATE MYSELF FOR BEING FAT publicity junket. Granted, it's like Kirstie Alley: she doesn't have much going for her career other than the "fat actress" VH-1 circuit. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mistressrenet 2007-04-27 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Word. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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