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Beth Ditto - great role model or bad example?

Faith · 2009-06-13 21:44:48

Beth Ditto is the lead singer of The Gossip, and Perez Hilton is a huge fan of hers. He often posts stories about how she embraces her size, while simultaneously bitching about other women gaining weight (Kirstie Alley, Jessica Simpson). Wikipedia says: A British journalist recently wrote that Ditto is "just as bad an…

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#92 17-06-2009 9:49pm
Bonkers_xOx

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she looks unhealthy..... it shouldn't be celebrated as much as it is.

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#93 23-06-2009 9:48am
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GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I'm personally neither horrified nor disgusted, I know hardly anything of her.

I think women are more likely to be fascinated by her confidence, in spite of what we tend to see as reasons she shouldn't be, and that its men who are more likely to express horror and disgust.

Thinness suggests austerity and self control, which is seen as virtuous. Obesity suggests gluttony which in turn suggests a lack of self-control, a vice.

very well said GirlInterrupted... thanks :P

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