Fat/sexy Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto, whose milky rolls are splayed on the cover of June’s NME, blames the gays (and the Beckhams!) for causing America’s eating disorder epidemic:
If there’s anyone to blame for size zero, it’s not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry and want these women as dolls. Men don’t know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way. The Beckhams are part of the machine, Paris Hilton is part of the machine.
Beth’s gotten some backlash from the Towleroad commenters, who believe that straight women are to blame for their own postfeminist, cooter-waxing, nip-slipping body dysmorphia crisis. But I think she’s right, in part. I blame gay men, straight women and straight men, if not necessarily in that order.
I do, however, feel that the lesbians’ hands are pretty much clean on this issue.
Funny how when I first started listening to The Gossip, it didn’t really occur to me that Beth was as big as she is. But now that they’re getting more mainstream attention, they’re The Band With the Fat Lead Singer (remember when Keira Knightley tried to deny her own starvation issues by saying she thinks Beth’s body is hot?). I don’t recall this being an issue with any other bands with obese frontwomen like, uh, Heart. Anyone?
The Gossip’s Beth Ditto: Gay men to blame for skinny women [Towleroad]
You know you want this! [Dlisted]
Beth’s corpulent nudity is proof that eating disorders really ain’t so bad.
Bag the face and I’d hit that.
Yowza! I’d hit it too!