Lost Grrrls

lipstick-feminists:

ninapedia:

I have a problem with this.
I usually try to keep rants and what not off my tumblr, but this upsets me to know end.
I have a problem with this.
One of my duties, as a Customer Service Representative for a Grocery chain is to fix the magazine rack around me. On the cover of OK! magazine I saw this.
I have a problem with this.
A star that I don’t even know “Balloons” to 145 pounds. I frantically flipped through to read the article and they added insult to injury because the first thing that caught my eye on the page was a yellow, bolded type describing her as “chunky”
I have a problem with this.
Dear Tumblr, I’m a 150 pounds. This is described as the average weight for a person of my height by everyone from my Gynecologist to my Wii Fit.

I’ve been called everything from fat to fluffy, and it doesn’t normally phase me because I think I’m fine the way I am.
But This.
I have a problem with this.
OK! magazine is not okay by promoting the “too fat, too thin” ideal. It’s not okay with the stigma that anything under and over a certain weight is less than human. But most of all it’s not okay with fucking with women’s heads, self-esteem, and self-worth. They have no right to scrutinize a women’s body dubbing it “chunky”, turning it into something obscene, just because she’s in the public eye. If she’s happy and healthy, then shove off.
I’m not OK! with This.
The worst part of all this? The women I usually see reading these magazines at the check out line, aren’t women.

This girl is gorgeous, and I still hate tabloids something fierce.