[Image: An animated GIF of Barack Obama and another guy whose face is turned away pointing to a big screen TV, on which the ladies of Sailor Moon repeatedly appear.]
My fellow Americans. Today, I introduce to you a foreign ally from not just overseas, but from outer space. One who will never turn her back on an allied country in need; one who will fight to defend what is right. We can depend on this organisation to protect our nation. She is the one named… Sailor Moon.
[Image: A screenshot of a stock photo website with the sample photo of, and size information for, “Cyber woman with a corn,” a white-skinned person wearing a silver visor and holding an ear of corn near their face.]
Cyber woman with a corn.Â
I want this in print form
This is my new favorite after “Women Laughing Alone With Salad”
This is relevant to my interests.
[Image: A photo of Rachel Maddow with the text: Hey Girl, the Dow Jones may fluctuate, but my jonesin’ for you will always stay steady.]
I blush every time one of these comes on my dash.
It’s possible to enjoy things, while still recognizing their problems
There seems to be this pervasive notion that being a fan means you’re not allowed to critique the things you love.  I don’t understand… if you love something, wouldn’t you want it to be the best it can be? That includes recognizing things that could be improved upon.
It’s also possible to enjoy something you totally hate.  Like… I loathe Ke$ha, everything she stands for and sings about, but… I secretly dance her to her music sometimes.  It makes me feel dirty*,  but it’s got a good beat for shaking your caboose. Â
* Not in Ke$ha’s “I just crawled out of a dumpster” glam kind of dirty, but the “All the perfumes of Arabia could not wash the stench of this shame off my hands” kind.
I think a lot of consumers of media need to understand this. Maybe it’s from growing up in a feminist family, maybe it’s for other reasons, but developing a critical eye and applying it to just about everything I lay my eyes upon has been part of how I interact with fiction and media for so long, I can’t imagine not doing it. Just blindly drifting along with the ebbing and tides of a fandom is a notion that’s incredibly foreign to me.
[Image: A black and white photo of Rachel Maddow wearing a white blazer and dark jeans with the text: Hey Girl. I’ll fight to keep their laws off your body. My hands, however, are a different story.]
Because Ryan Gosling doesn’t float everyone’s boat. /swoon
[Image: A painting of Sailor Saturn against a crystallized mirror/mosiac background of purple and green hues.]
Sailor Saturn by ~k-BOSE
Found the artist’s DA! It’s polite to credit the artists with a link when you post their work. :)
[Images: three animated GIFs of Katherine Moennig speaking with the words captioned: Sexuality is fluid whether you’re gay, straight, or bisexual. Just go with the flow!]
UNNNNNNGH SHANE. Let me dive into your bedroom eyes.
(I think this is Shane, yes? Or another role of hers? God I’m so so so far behind on the L Word.)
Body Positive: Why I Endorse Fat Acceptance
In my blog I use Fat Acceptance and Body Acceptance interchangably because to me they mean the same thing. But I’ve heard the term Fat Acceptance specifically criticized for a number of reasons (mainly based on ignorance of what it actually means – e.i. associating it with feederism or thin bashing).
The reason I associate myself to Fat Acceptance specifically, however, is because it goes a step further than many media generated Love Your Body type Campaigns. These will tell us that it’s okay to maybe be bigger than a model and that every body can be beautiful. (Even if they don’t necessarily SHOW us that – I’m looking at you, Victoria’s Secret) They’ll tell you to love your curves and that it’s more important to be healthy than to be skinny. But they won’t tell you it’s okay to be fat. That, they would say, is too far, is promoting obesity, unhealthy lifestyles, etc.
People say fat acceptance is “too extreme”, but it’s exactly as extreme as it needs to be. It shocks a lot of people and frankly they need to be shocked. They need to be made uncomfortable. They don’t deserve to be coddled into thinking their old paradigms about weight and health and beauty are acceptable because they aren’t.
Fat acceptance is a branch of the body acceptance movement that includes ALL body types, yes but says with clarity exactly who that includes. It says if you’ve got a BMI requirement on your type of acceptance then it isn’t acceptance at all.
Example of caring about a fat person’s health: “Hey, have you checked out this new HAES article? It’s got tons of information! Including tips on self esteem and some cool recipes we could try out!”
Example of being an unimportant douchebag: “Hey, I don’t like the way you look and I could never have the confidence you do, so I just wanted you to know that I hope you get a heart attack and die!”
<3 <3 <3
May have just started an argument on Facebook after someone health-concern-troll-fat-bashed my assertion that all body types are valid for women to have, so now I’m trawling the fat acceptance tag to steel myself for confrontation if it comes to it.
[Image: an illustration of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty as a woman of color.]
Lovely!