Comments on: Twisty’s Feminist Media Literacy Korner

By: Skinny girls to blame for train delays - Salon.com

Skinny girls to blame for train delays - Salon.com — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:24:43 +0000

[...] “the vapors.” (Though we’d love to see the Onion’s take on that.) Twisty of I Blame The Patriarchy isn’t so kind; she calls it an example of [...]

By: Skinny girls to blame for train delays

Skinny girls to blame for train delays — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:17:59 +0000

[...] “the vapors.” (Though we’d love to see the Onion’s take on that.) Twisty of I Blame The Patriarchy isn’t so kind; she calls it an example of “woman-blaming-as-national-bloodsport.” [...]

By: cumwad

cumwad — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:00:31 +0000

y0u rock twisty!

By: hedonistic

hedonistic — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:31:10 +0000

Wow, bewilderness, I just had a flashback. That was me, size zero, estranged from my family and literally starving from poverty, once upon a long time ago.

By: thebewilderness

thebewilderness — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:48:25 +0000

So when a starving waif “sheepishly” admits they haven’t eaten, are they too embarrased to admit they don’t have enough money for food? We don’t know, because the assumption made in the article is that they are dieting to maintain the waiflike size 0. What if the size 0 is a result of being one of those working poor who has to stretch their food budget from one inadequate payday to the next.
I may be making too much of this but I remember how hard it was to admit that you were starving when you went to lunch with friends and ordered a salad because it was the cheapest thing and you pretended you were on a diet. Then there is the “Oh no, I’m not hungry, I just ate”, or I had a huge lunch.
It seems to me that this article is saying that it is perfectly acceptable for young women to starve, just so long as it doesn’t inconvenience anyone else.

By: Sylvanite

Sylvanite — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:30:15 +0000

Off to St. Josaphat’s I go! If the church doesn’t fall down around my head, due to my unrepentant apostasy.

By: joolya

joolya — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:10:58 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention: Being acceptably waif-like doesn’t COUNT if you have to DIET or USE COCAINE to maintain your BMI of 15! Silly little girls, always trying too hard!

By: joolya

joolya — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:07:46 +0000

Oh, for FSM’s sake!

You really can’t win, can you, if you’re a girl? It’s not even virgin/whore, this is prude/slut. But it’s alright to hate the sluts/size 0’s, because we’re secretly jealous of them. Damned if ya do and damned if ya don’t.

When the headline about how fat men delay trains by taking up too much space? Yeah, never. Possibly the one about pregnant women and their dang strollers. (Or has that been done?) What about men in three piece suits who try and shove up to the front of the ticket machine queue?

By: Twisty

Twisty — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:00:10 +0000

The entire essay, Jack, is about misogyny in media. Why miss out on an opportunity to shill for a popular porn magazine?

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:48:15 +0000

During his daring rescue of a man who had fallen onto the tracks, â€œAutreyâ€™s Playboy ski cap was nicked but he was uninjured.â€

For clarification, Twisty – are you taking a jab at/making a comment about Autrey himself here, or are you making a comment about how this news outlet decided to highlight his hat?

Also, I second anacas in that the problem is mostly the media’s spin on this (which amounts to “Silly, stupid women!”), rather than the EMT (though, admittedly, he may be making some assumptions himself.)