Posted on 07/02/2018 9:02:19 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Self Magazine debuted its first digital cover this week, which showed plus-sized model Tess Holliday and told readers that her “health is none of your business.”
The health and wellness magazine posted the cover to its Instagram account and included a portion of Editor-in-Chief Carolyn Kylstra’s editor’s letter, which explains why the publication decided to give Holliday “a platform.”
“Holliday identifies as a fat woman; we chose to give her a platform because she has insightful things to say about thriving in a world that devalues bodies of size,” the letter said. “We also chose to feature her because size representation is necessary, especially for a national health media brand that can help guide the conversation about what it means to be healthy and how to make health accessible.”
It went on to add that a person’s level of health can’t be determined "just by looking at them."
“And moreover, you should know that concern trolling — using a person’s perceived health to justify making them feel bad about themselves — isn’t just counterproductive, it’s abusive,” it said.
Some commenters on the post applauded the magazine’s decision, with one user writing, “Thanks for showing ALL kinds of beautiful women!” and another saying they “adore this!”
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“... because you’re only wasting ink...”
About a ton of it I’d say.
“She’s so big, when she got a tattoo, the shop had to send out for more ink.”
Any of you techies out there got a program to show what those tats will look like if she loses 2-300 lbs?
Just curious.
Wilford always gets the edgy egghead type of roll.
And Holy Heck Michael Douglas looked like he was about twelve!
And Jane Fonda... bleckh!
Must have been right after Streets of San Francisco.
A Quinn Martin production!
More bounce to the ounce!
plus sized? how about ++++sized ...
Sadly, a great many people will agree with you.
I say “sadly”, because a profound loss of personal liberties is one of the consequences of socialized medicine. Everyone engages in some “risky” behaviours — play hockey, ski, ride a bicycle, ride a motorbike, go camping, have a drink after work, walk to work, drive to work, etc. If you judge other’s risky behaviours, purely on the basis of the cost to the medical system; then you can expect your risky behaviours to be judged the same way. And you might not like the results.
I agree. That was the main argument I have against socialized medicine.
And the government knows that it’s the ultimate power grab.
SELF Magazine Is Still Being Published .
On Paper, No Less.
I doubt the magazine would do well, but, locally, there seems to a tweekette for every tweeker.
Oh God my eyes,my eyes.
“When you had your appendix removed at last
They didn’t know whether to operate or blast...”
Homer & Jethro - “Let Me Go, Blubber”
When you pose on magazine covers you are making it our bidness, aren’t you?
And I’m sorry, “plus sized”? No. That’s like calling the Titanic a “boat”.
Kudos for having the Miss Piggy Tat though, that’s owning it.
If the taxpayers have to foot the health care bill for your morbid obesity, Tessie, it sure the f*** is our bidness.
No kidding. I was told we’d have flying cars, longer lifespans and lots more hot women.
Instead, we get Socialism and fugly, man-hating, tattooed land whales.
That’s gross. Just terrible. And that...thing...is a “model”?
Yet another example of clown world.
I wouldn’t touch that with Bernie Sanders’ er, . . . appliance.
Damn...
When she sits around the house... she sits AROUND the house!
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