I’ve had plenty days where I wished I could apply my makeup with Photoshop. It’s much easier!
‘Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain. I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’
‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’
What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!
I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
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ICWUDT of the Day: Before Rick Santorum had a chance to chime in, John Medeiros, writing on behalf of Minnesota’s entire gay and lesbian community preemptively issued a statement apologizing to now-former Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch — a “traditional marriage” proponent who engaged in an extramarital affair with a Senate staffer — for causing her to stray from her “holy union” with “our selfish requests to marry those we love.”
Koch and former communications chief Michael Brodkorb, the man with whom she allegedly cheated on her husband, both campaigned for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
“It is now clear to us,” the letter continues, ” that if we were not so self-focused and myopic, we would have been able to see that the time you wasted diligently writing legislation that would forever seal the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, could have been more usefully spent reshaping the legal definition of ‘adultery.’”
Honey. Roasted. Peanuts.
Read the rest of the letter here.
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ICWUDT of the Day: Before Rick Santorum had a chance to chime in, John Medeiros, writing on behalf of Minnesota’s entire gay and lesbian community preemptively issued a statement apologizing to now-former Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch — a “traditional marriage” proponent who engaged in an extramarital affair with a Senate staffer — for causing her to stray from her “holy union” with “our selfish requests to marry those we love.”
Koch and former communications chief Michael Brodkorb, the man with whom she allegedly cheated on her husband, both campaigned for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
“It is now clear to us,” the letter continues, ” that if we were not so self-focused and myopic, we would have been able to see that the time you wasted diligently writing legislation that would forever seal the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, could have been more usefully spent reshaping the legal definition of ‘adultery.’”
Honey. Roasted. Peanuts.
Read the rest of the letter here.
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