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[electricland]

The Fat Lady Sings

The real question is, do fans care as much about size as the music industry thinks they do? If American Idol is any indication, no. On this you-pick-the-star-of-tomorrow show, some of the most popular singers — LaKisha Jones, Kelly Clarkson, Kimberley Locke, Fantasia Barrino, Melinda Doolittle and Jordin Sparks — have been what my mom would politely call “big boned.”

America voted and it likes its Idols with a little junk in their trunk. Across the pond, the arbiters of hip at NME consider a chubby chick the coolest person around.

From which I also learned that I *heart* Beth Ditto (sadly, no easily accessible column archive, but you can find them using the links on the left nav).

Awesome suffragette photos via Bitch, PhD.

And the cutest police car EVER.

Comments

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I love those suffragette pictures. My alma mater (a women's college) has photos of their students at various suffragette rallies, and I always thought that was the neatest thing. It makes me so happy to see women - in their prim long dresses, even - standing up for their rights in a world where that was often very dangerous.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

interesting article. and yikes, the strangeness of our culture regarding these issues boggles my mind on any given day. it makes me wonder about how our cultural denial of mortality might generate an obsession with what the mainstread sees as "perfection". as in, "if you're perfect you'll live forever and be loveable"?