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Strong Women: "I Can Imagine a Market for That"
"Feminine beauty ideals have shifted with amazing velocity over the last several decades, in no realm more starkly than sports… 'I try never to work with just the type of person who'd be attractive to me,' said Katie Grand, the influential stylist and editor of Love magazine…. A woman of Ms. Griner's appearance might be, Ms. Grand said, 'fantastic to work with, since I try to work always with people who are interesting on a lot of levels.'" Dear beauty industry: fuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuu.
"Interesting on a lot of levels" is the new "great personality." Try it out when you're setting up friends!
So this is a backhanded compliment after all. Thanks a lot, friends!
Ooh, is your avatar your prize for winning the basketball tournament?
I can't wait to see what I get for winning the Ugliest Girl With A Nice Personality contest.
Love the avatar. Keep it away from the wife.
@Tuna: for some reason, that old song 'Nice Legs, Shame about Her Face' is running through my head right now. Apparently if you and I were taller and more muscly, we too could be 'one-offs.'
"Look: we've come so far that we can sell women who don't look like all the other women we're selling!"
Interesting on a lot of levels: the resolve beauty specialists such as Katie Grand demonstrate in attempting to waste women's time, even though women and men enjoy the same number of lifetimes, making their time on Earth equally precious, if rarely recognized as such.
My favorite quote from the article: "I always love one-offs and amazing creatures". So funny, because I happen to love douchebags and awe-inspiring assholes. Of course, I show my love with a swift kick to the nuts, but it's love nonetheless.
She meant, "Up there."
Yes, that's totes the whole purpose of being a female athlete…to 'redefine feminine beauty'. You've come a long way, baby.
*totes
You are correct. There probably is a niche market for attenuated Gumby torsos. I just don't need to know about it.
Soon tween boys will be more used to strong women than the women themselves.
Strong women also cry.
I expect more from these people!
Thank you for helping make my transition away from Jezebel easier!
Cake v Pie is over. Cheesecake won in the pie category(!)
You can go back now and still catch some beauty tips, WHICH you don't need because you should be proud not to be model-beautiful.
Well that's hardly a pleasant way to start a letter Choire.
I wonder how Ms. Griner felt when that article came out. I mean, "a pretty hot boy or trans girl"? She probably thought this would be a lot more flattering. It reminds me of the "negging" that douche bag pick up artists use.
oh how bout the "i love one-offs and amazing creatures" – damn she's not even a person now?!!?!?!?
What I love is meeting new women who are married and they're like "are you dating anyone?" and I'm like "no" and they're like "BUT you're SO BEEEEAUTIFUL". So too bad you're not the hottiepants from the coffee shop who was so flirtatious until that time you came in with your stupid, AVERAGE girlfriend and made eye contact with me while you went in for a kiss? (and continued to flirt the next time when she wasn't there again.)
!
(From my experience, I think he was inviting you for a threesome)
*call me**
**married
Funny how the article mentions all the reasons you might know Ms. Griner, but not her punch that broke an opponents nose on the court. (not that this is relevant to this post here, just that that's how I know of her)
Don't understand? Because she's totally gorgeous by conventional standards?