Ha, I've somehow managed to miss the bulk of Beth D's fat-feminism posturing - only caught a few hints of it. I basically agree with you that she shouldn't be held up as an example of a healthy role model for much the same reasons BUT I think what IS a good thing is her confidence, the way she wears her weight well, which is less to do with the fatness per se as with accepting who/what you are, which is pretty fantastic. Miss AMP wrote a really, really brilliant editorial in Plan B, the issue with Beth on the cover, about how as a fat teenage girl herself, merely seeing someone like Beth Ditto on the cover of a magazine would have been important.
Of course this isn't the same thing as harping on about being FAT AND PROUD - surely the Missy Elliott way is preferable, when she was fat she didn't care and she looked great, but she slimmed down because her doctor told her to and she STILL didn't care and she STILL looked great.
Anyway I am pretty against the idea of popstars as role models in any case. People who need role models also need to grow one brain of their own.
(I love SITWOC because it's not just an anthem in the dancefloor sense but because I think it's the first song since 'All The Things She Said' which I can relate to as a fist-pumping standing-together gay anthem - also they have clearly taken on board the fundamentals of DISCO whereby you take lyrics about sadness and loneliness and set them to a massive beat and tus defeat the sadness and loneliness hurrah.)
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Date: 2007-01-30 07:29 pm (UTC)Of course this isn't the same thing as harping on about being FAT AND PROUD - surely the Missy Elliott way is preferable, when she was fat she didn't care and she looked great, but she slimmed down because her doctor told her to and she STILL didn't care and she STILL looked great.
Anyway I am pretty against the idea of popstars as role models in any case. People who need role models also need to grow one brain of their own.
(I love SITWOC because it's not just an anthem in the dancefloor sense but because I think it's the first song since 'All The Things She Said' which I can relate to as a fist-pumping standing-together gay anthem - also they have clearly taken on board the fundamentals of DISCO whereby you take lyrics about sadness and loneliness and set them to a massive beat and tus defeat the sadness and loneliness hurrah.)