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July 17, 2006
Trimming the Fat in Oak Park
Nothing gets me more fired up than a bunch of tiny-minded, stupid men doing ignorant things. A suburb of Chicago has decided that fat women walking their "sexy" sidewalks are not the image they want, so they are getting an injunction against a Lane Bryant from opening in Oak Park, IL. You can read more about it here.
Apparently, sometime ago, the ladies on the view opened the door to this suburb being one of the One of the 5 sexiest in the country. That having been said, some tiny minded asshat got into office in this little community and now thinks that plus sized gals don't fit that image. Now, I am not going to stand up and say a woman with an oxygen tank and a walker who weighs as much as as a pick up truck is Cindy Crawford.... But for hell's sake...


THESE are considered plus sized women. Do they look unsexy? DO they look like human litter to the streets? Something that would contaminate even the most misogynist ideal of attractive?
I have seen some pretty fugly skinny women in my day. I am no skinny woman my damn self. I am very pretty, too. I have big tits, hips on the bottom, and a waist line in the middle. It is not what I wear on any given day, but a way I feel about me, and the way I carry myself that makes me attractive. I show off my cleavage and and waist line when I feel like it; some days I wear baggy jeans and a grimy sweat shirt. Doesn't really matter- it's an attitude, and it is the same attitude I had at size 8, as I have now at size 16, and when I was a size 24 two years ago.
All an action like this does is make the asshole who brings it look small and stupid, certainly not the women who would be customers. I wouldn't be surprised if all the women in that town lynch the bastard.
They have nothing to be ashamed of, but you, Mr. David Pope. You have some obviously askew ideas of what sexy and attractive is, and I doubt you would know what alluring was it if smacked you in junk, not matter what size it was wearing.
Posted by TheFreud at July 17, 2006 12:31 PM