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Today, I read an arti­cle on the stick-thin mod­els scro­tums in the fash­ion indus­try. I was sick­ened by the atti­tude in the arti­cle, as fash­ion indus­try insid­ers (inside of what, I won­der) denied that the prod­uct they’re sell­ing has any effect on girls and women in our society:

“Skinny mod­els are an aes­thetic issue as far as fash­ion is con­cerned. Mod­els are thin so that one notices the clothes instead of the body inside,” says David Wolfe, cre­ative direc­tor for New York-based Doneger Group, adding that’s why Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe was not a high-fashion model.

“Obe­sity is cer­tainly a more preva­lent prob­lem in Amer­ica than bulimia or anorexia, and nobody is sug­gest­ing that over­weight young women are copy­ing anybody.”

Tell that to the my fourth-grade daugh­ter who, along with her friends, talks about how fat they all are and how they want to lose weight to look like “the pop­u­lar girls” Ash­ley and Mary-Kate.

Some­body intro­duce this man to a Texas woman: He needs his ass kicked.