Hey everyone, if you’ve recently gone up a size or two (lol blog ass), do not be alarmed or even attempt to drop the weight! Because if battlin’ Beth Ditto gets her way the entire way we think about waists and hips and boobies may be on its way out:
The curvaceous rocker insisted that the US clothing size – the equivalent of a UK size four – encourages women to aspire to be “nothing”.
She told Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show: “It’s so obvious but so deep about our culture and what (it) says about women and their worth in their world (that) to be a size zero… is your ultimate goal.
“The biggest thing in your world is to be a nothing. That is so intense… how about getting rid of zero at all and putting a number onto it instead, even if it’s a small number?”
You know, I expect this kind of…logic when I’m watching Meet The Press, but I generally expect more from our mid-level indie rock frontwomen who have been given far too much rope by the cruel British press. Maybe I’m just too idealistic. (Also I don’t know what it says about us that we’ve posted that NME cover more than that damn Zac Efron RS pic.)
Beth Ditto Campaigns To Ban Size Zero [Digital Spy]
Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron – there, that should take care of today’s hits…
I’ll say this for Ditto’s comments: If U.S. size 0′s were upgraded to size 2, it might correct the size-deflation epidemic my wife complains about every time she goes shopping and ends up trying on something that’s trying to flatter a gal two sizes bigger than her.
Beth Ditto is so deep.
I loved that cover – I have it on my desk right now – It’s one of the covers of the decade – (if you can accept that’s a tenable accolade). I was really surprised that it was the NME who had the guts to do it and not i-D or POP. Don’t turn on Beth so soon either, I think she has something valuable to contribute beyond the boring size debate. She’s a wicked singer and she’s dragging all these amazing references into the mainstream – hardly anyone’s done that credibly since Nirvana. She sang the first line of ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’ on this cheesy chat show and she did it so unaffected…it was a moment…I dunno – it was good anyway. I really like her.
I really like the Gossip’s music and support their queer-positive stance and all, but I think she should calm down on the public service announcements. Every time I read a news item about Beth, I end up shaking my head. All these items seem to come with the headline “Fat Singer Opens Her Mouth Again, Says Something Stupid”
Is this because I’m a jaded 28 year-old male and not a 17 year-old girl? Are there girls out there saying “RIGHT ON” to this?
@Cos: No. I kind of want her to just shut up and sing, you know?
I’m all for lead by example activism, but yeah, I’m starting to think the Britsh press are just having a larf at her expense.