What is it about Beth Ditto that makes journalists lose their objectivity faster than virginity on Prom Night? I’m not sure what annoys me more:
The haters, like British GQ’s Alex Bilmes. He sneered and air-quoted his way through an article that called Ditto a “fat lesbian” (”lesbian” obviously being nearly as big a crime as “fat”) and a “porker” who was “pathologically exhibitionist”; said her band Gossip was “deeply average”; and berated the fashion industry as “stupid” for lionizing her and said they they’re only using her as an outsized human shield so other fat people couldn’t accuse them of sizism. Jeez Alex, who pissed on your scones?;
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The gushers, like The Sunday Times’ Giles Hattersley, who waxes rapsodic about Ditto’s body, comparing her arms to “slabs of freshly baked ciabatta” and wanting to render the “play of light across her love handles” in oils. Also, her best friend is a unicorn and she farts glitter!
Beth Ditto’s profile is particularly large (HA HA SEE WHAT I DID THERE) in Britian right now, because she’s just designed a line for Evans, the plus-sized wing of the Topshop chain. Frankly, I think it all resembles the clothes I grew out of right around the time Miami Vice was hitting its peak. But I am an old; it might not be a drawback to people too young to remember the first time black stretch pants paired with oversized sequined purple tops were hawt.
i think she’s cool, and beautiful… and let the haters hate, they’re a bunch of losers to see that a beautiful person such as Beth is soo freakin confortable with herself…
Let her be who she is! Sure maybe its not the best thing about being “fat” and being on magazines but shes ok with it. Its not something I would do and all, not something I truely want to look at but you know… just let her be and let it go, she is who she is… no one can change that.
Can you please point out where I said she shouldn’t be allowed to be what she is? Because I really don’t remember saying anything like that. In fact, since I didn’t qualify my article with a bunch of thinly-veiled disgust about how I “wouldn’t want to be like that” and “don’t really like looking at that”, I would say I’m far more supportive than you are.
Jesus fucking christ, do you pinheads even finish reading this shit before you fart your ignorant comments out?
Be nice…is it a shame that she is proud of who she is…I envy her strength for not succumbing to the media and their harsh words…You know, there’s girls killing themselves to be thin…
I WAS NICE, YOU STUPID FUCKING TWAT.
I don’t know why every retard with zero reading comprehension skills is suddenly flocking to a year-old article on a defunct blog, but I’m going to disable comments if it keeps up because I don’t need the aggravation.
Did you ever think that that comment to “just let her be” was a general comment to the media that you speak and condemn? Jesus fucking christ, do you even finish reading shit before you fart your ignorant comments out? Is that really how you speak to your readers? You can’t tell these “fucking twats” what you really meant in an intelligent and adult way. It’s a forum for conversation. Relax.
Except those comments weren’t addressed to TEH MEEDJA, they were addressed to me. And I will speak to “my readers” any fucking way I please. If they could make intelligent comments, I’d answer them intelligently. Do you think I give a shit if any of these mouth-breathers hate me? It’s not like I’m trying to sell them used cars. Read, don’t read, I don’t give a rat’s ass. If I had my choice, they’d all go pollute some other corner of the internet with their dumbassery. This blog isn’t even active anymore.
Sad..