relying on intellect

Now fashion mags make models ‘fatter’

Fashion magazines are manipulating images of skinny models to make them look “fatter” than they really are.

The move is a response to critics who blame images of so-called “size zero” models for the rise in eating disorders in young girls.

I have no words.

No just kidding, I do:  What the fuck??

We can’t possibly actually find healthy-looking, normal-sized, attractive women to take pictures of (since anyone over a size 0 is automatically ugly) so if we want to promote healthy images we have to take pictures of skinny women and digitally fatten them up… because the last thing on earth we want is for real women to think their bodies are acceptable.

I’m sorry but the media is retarded.

In case anybody was wondering, knowing that atheism exists is apparently dangerous for children.

Illinois State Representative Monique Davis thinks so, anyway.

I don’t know what you have against God, but some of us don’t have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it’s really a tragedy — it’s tragic — when a person who is engaged in anything related to God, they want to fight.

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I’m trying to understand the philosophy that you want to spread in the state of Illinois. This is the Land of Lincoln. This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God, where people believe in protecting their children.… What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous, it’s dangerous–

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It’s dangerous to the progression of this state. And it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!

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You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon.

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Approximately 64% of the time when I click on my Facebook home page, I see this ad or something similar:

I’m too tired to even rant about it, but I am kind of wondering if everyone sees these or if Facebook is targeting me because it somehow knows I think I’m fat.

Edit: Even better:

*Because they are false and not true. (When are we going to get an article about sex myths you should believe?)

It makes me happy to see Fox News debunking myths rather than perpetuating them, but I have to say I think it’s a little discouraging to think that these might be believed by any significant portion of the population:

1. A female is not a virgin if she does not have a hymen.

2. Men are more visually stimulated than women.

3. Only women can have multiple orgasms.

4. Being uncircumcised is unhygienic.

5. A woman must be in love to climax.

6. Men do not have sensitive nipples.

7. A woman must have an orgasm in order to conceive.

8. Men’s members need to be handled with care.

Number 8 is just weird.  The rest of them are… silly, I guess.  Do people above the age of fifteen believe this stuff?  Seriously?

It’s got nothing on LOLcats, but it’s funny all the same… Pundit Kitchen hosts a collection of captioned photos of politicians that make me giggle like nobody’s business.

Some of my favorites: