I have said before, and I will say again, that if a single man (in this thread or in real life) tells me of a time he has been pressured to make his body more feminine in order to be (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
Well, those two examples were the first two I've been given. I acknowledge them both. So to answer your question, the number of examples I need before I acknowledge one is...one. (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
Thank you for explaining your point of view in a clear way. You're right--the way you say it is not derailing. You didn't whine or discount the concept that the people who are primarily hurt by this issue are not (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
Ok. I'm done arguing. Yes, I acknowledge that in a lot of these comments I've gotten rather snarky and oversimplified the issues. Sorry about that. That being said, for all the men who have come here just to talk about (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
I don't disagree. However, I'd venture to guess this is no more damaging than all the models who claim to love food and insist they must just have fast metabolisms. While it may be true for some of them, it (posted to Kate Moss, "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels...")
This phrase has been on pro-ana sites for at least four years and in all likelihood got the quote from them. It's usually somewhere in the top ten of so-called "thinspirational" quotes. (posted to Kate Moss, "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels...")
I actually know a few het men who crossdress. They do this, primarily, because they think women are so hot, they want to look like one. They're not transgendered, they're not gay, one is overweight and embarrassed to wear a (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
Its interesting to me that in the linked article, they stated the size of the woman quoted. Despite the fact that its a weight related article... it seems very out of place. As though her pant size would speak to (posted to Kate Moss, "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels...")
That's mostly because (at least, I was under the impression that the following is the case) this is an old Kate Moss quote that she re-iterated in a recent interview when asked if she had any "catch phrases." (posted to Kate Moss, "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels...")
