NS January 27th, 2009

In the course of doing my freelance job today, which requires reading a lot of news, I came across this lovely little news item in the New York Post.

In case you didn’t know, that’s pop singer and actress Jessica Simpson and the first couple paragraphs read:

Wow, Jessica Simpson looks as if she could be an offensive lineman for her quarterback boyfriend. A plump, jeans-busting Simpson stunned fans with her new bulky build over the weekend. Simpson, 28, has packed on some serious pounds in recent months, and also wore an outfit that accentuated every unflattering curve of her 5-foot-3 frame.

Nice, huh?

This recent picture of her shows that the Post purposely chose a shot taken from an awkward angle as she clearly does not look like the heifer they’re making her out to be. She’s gained weight, sure, but she’s probably gone from a US size 2 to a size 6 or 8. Somebody call the fat police! She might break double digits soon and be the butt of jokes about things seen from space! And then I won’t be surprised if she feels compelled to go on Oprah, crying about what a lard-ass she’s become, before having gastric bypass surgery and undergoing a grueling physical regime until she returns to a size so small that she can only be seen with a microscope.

Fortunately, she has said in interviews that she’s happy with her size and that she’s proud of her curves. Right on, Jess! I may think your music is crap and found your MTV show ‘Newlyweds’ fantastically boring but at least you have some common sense about you. Us fat girls have to have brains in our head to get by since we can’t rely on our Hawtness as gauged by mouth-breathing frat boys.

Speaking of fat girls, this tripe over at Spike.com has been getting a lot of attention: The Top 7 Butterbodies. Written by perhaps the biggest asshole I’ve encountered in the blogosphere so far this year, this guy picks apart seven female celebrities whom he can’t BELIEVE had the gall to gain weight (or merely appear to) because it threatens his asinine assumption that women should be ‘sexy’ for men and that any woman’s appearance (especially a celebrity’s) is up for criticism and jugment if she is found to be lacking.

The only thing that made me smile about this article was the large number of comments made by other males telling the author what a douchebag he is. We need to see more of this, both in the blogosphere and in real life. We don’t have a chance of stopping these misogynistic rants if men don’t call each other out for it. So speak up, fellas!

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