So, as a Long-Time BG(Big Girl)… I’ve always had this fear of eating in front of people (specifically, skinny bitches), but as I’ve gotten older, the paranoia’s worsened. For some reason, I find that no matter what the food (or the amount), I’m still catching eyes. The worst I’ve experienced it is usually at school and/or in the office, but…
In Other Words… Why not show how all relationships are represented? There’s always been ‘a certain way’ relationships are portrayed in TV and film, and how society believes they should look. A muscular tall, dark and handsome ‘belongs’ with a shapely Victoria’s Secret-looking blonde Wake up, people! More often than not, everyday people don’t look like this. In fact, we’re attracted to people who…
The standard of beauty. This phrase is overused and inaccurate. I hate this phrase because it doesn’t make sense. How can we possibly define what’s beautiful when its definition is just about as vague as the definition of love. Neither word is definitive, yet the world we live in manages to draft up some false concept of what the standard should be. This thin, tan, lippy, and silent fantasy of a woman is how men depicted…
Girls is a popular show But even more than that, it’s a show about regular people who we actually could or would run into in our day to day. HuffPost Women covered how ‘Girls” gave a plus-size woman a romantic storyline MINUS any mention of her weight: 'Girls’ gave a plus-size woman a romantic storyline and never mentioned her weight…
Vogue has been known… as one of the most well-respected publications in the fashion industry for decades, however, body positivity and the acceptance of other sizes still seems to be a hard habit for the publisher to break. In its 125th celebration issue, Vogue graced its cover with some of the fashion industry’s biggest names in fashion such as Ashley…
