Paul Campos nails it again

[firecat]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/27/campos-the-weight-of-a-cruel-culture/

Consider Hollywood's current It Girl, Keira Knightley. Knightley has a body mass that places her in the second percentile of the population. If her weight were to deviate as radically in the other direction - in other words if she were in the 98th percentile of body mass - she would weigh approximately 300 pounds.

Yet Knightley is presented by our media-industrial complex as a completely natural object of male desire, while men attracted to 300-pound women are considered to be in the grip of a bizarre fetish. (Meanwhile the archetypal male sex symbol Brad Pitt has a BMI of 27, which also happens to be the average BMI of middle-aged American men).

PS: Definitely skip the comments. Campos has a set of trolls that follow him around.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

This is funny, because I'm listening to an old "Jimmy Kimmel Live", and he mentions that, for Oscar security, they had to cover the drains in case it rained to protect Keira Knightley. I LOLed.