Adventures of Barbarella

The Brunette Turned Blonde Curse

I was browsing through a Vanity Fair today with Emma Stone on the cover, and it prompted "Since when is Emma Stone a blonde??". After some research it turns out her natural color is dark blonde, but as far as I know she's made her name as a brunette, and it got me thinking about how, as soon as somebody becomes somebody, or is set to become one, the industry turns them blonde overnight. I don't know if this Emma's case, i don't follow her closely, but that was my train of thought. And hey, not only blonde, but always the same premeditated shade of light blonde with surfer waves. The "celebrity" look. They ALL LOOK THE SAME! Dear managers, PRs and agents, shame on you.

Girls with bottoms

This is entirely a complaint.

I fail to understand why female clothes are in their majority cut in the shape of a stick.

Take this skirt for instance:




It made me so furious I swear I had smoke coming out of my nose. Insert current facebook status:






It's not even a size 0, it's just a size stupid. And they dared call it "true to size"! True to what size? a child with a beer belly? I realise we all come in different shapes, but if we're gonna choose a standard figure to make our clothes on, can we choose a suitable 90-60-90?? If anything, a shapely dress sculpts you for the better. A dress with no shape will look bad in fatties, skinnies and sticks alike.

ITS NOT ASTROPHYSICS!

I am so fed up I'm starting a category dedicated to hips.

Plus Sized: The Circus

 
The acclaimed W plus size model pictures. I'm sorry, but when a model looks this sexual, it stops being fashion and it becomes men magazine glamour.

I could care less about how skinny or fat she is, that's not the point. Fashion models are not only skinny; they're mannequins, they're awkward, they're freaks and ghosts, they transform themselves. No one is trying to claim they're sexy, they don't look sexual or pretty. They are transparent. YOU DON'T SEE THEM. They work to present clothes.

So yea, fashion modelling FAIL. That said,  I applaud these and I think there is a big big gap to be filled by curvy commercial models in men's magazines.  

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FAT VS SKINNY and the Real Woman

I refuse to go into this topic for longer than necessary, but I am offended at how the media has been presenting this "issue".

My thoughts:

a) Fat is not better than skinny. Skinny is not better than fat.
b) "Real women" are not fat. We're all real women.
c) No one should be bullied for being fat or skinny.
d) Being skinny should not be associated to malnutrition or eating disorders. It's incorrect, and it's misleading.
e) Being skinny doesn't give you superpowers that will allow you to do better at everything in life.

Being fat or skinny is not a bloody problem!

Also, and this is an entirely different subject, but obsessing over doing what other people with different qualities are doing is not "challenging" and it does not "prove" anything. It's stupid! All these "feminist ideas" with women wanting men jobs and fat women wanting skinny girl jobs and vice versa. It's dumb. We're all different and we do different things.

Why can't we all be ballet dancers? Why can't we all be firemen? Oh, here's an idea. Why can't fat ballerinas with eating disorders be firemen? That would sure PROVE like, everything.

Lady Gaga should make a song out of it