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Glamour Magazine Body Size Stereotypes Survey:

What the Glamour Magazine poll shows about the assumptions women hold

Heavy women are pegged as…

“lazy” 11 times as often as thin women; “sloppy” nine times; “undisciplined” seven times; “slow” six times as often.

While thin women are seen as…

“conceited” or “superficial” about eight times as often as heavy women; “vain” or “self-centered” four times as often; and “bitchy,” “mean,” or “controlling” more than twice as often.

Even the “good” labels are unfair.

An overweight woman may be five times as likely to be perceived as “giving” as a skinny one. “But it just fits into the stereotype that thin women are not that way,” explains Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ph.D. “It’s still putting women in a box based on their body size.”

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This is so interesting… and really sad. The fact that heavy women ALSO judge heavy women and thin women judge other thin women is so disheartening.

Hopefully places like Stop Hating Your Body can help change this even a little bit at a time… 

(click on the image for the entire article, it is worth the read!)

It’s very interesting that the article is about stereotypes, and yet both the women shown here, while their body sizes are different, are both white, blonde, and what the media would like to push as being ideally ‘beautiful’. 

That being said, however, the article does make a good point. People are far too eager to place people in a box strictly on what the shape of their body, and it’s not okay. The only way to change is to question what you’re made to think, and why.

ugh. also: sticky note to myself to work on planned photo project. ok.

bolded above comment for absolute truthness

but this is super valid otherwise

I really love this image overall, though I just had another reminder (I can’t think of another word that fits better) of my White Privilege.  I didn’t even notice that both of these women were white and blonde until I read the caption.  I’ve still got to work on being more aware.

That being said, I’m impressed that that large woman actually has some belly on her.  I just completed a project comparing the visual schemes of the Dove Beauty campaign that featured “real women,” and the Strong4Life campaign.  The “real women” shown in the Dove campaign all had these nice, flat stomachs.  So thank you for that, Glamour, for daring to show at least a couple of rolls on this gorgeous woman. 

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[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “”Holden Caulfield is too whiny”” Bottom text: “So are you.”]

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