Showing posts with label BodyShames. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BodyShames. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Tyler the Creator Body-Shames Kendall Jenner: She"s Got No Ass!

It’s insultingly reductive to say the Kardashians are only famous because of Kim’s sex tape or the sisters’ famously curvy figures.


The entire family (with the possible exception of Rob), has worked hard to build an iconic brand, but there’s no denying that large posteriors still spring to mind at the mention of the name “Kardashian.”




Kendall Jenner may not be a Kardashian by name, but she’s no less a member of the Kard clan than Kim, Khloe or Kourtney.


So when Tyler the Creator called Kendall out for being less curvy than her sisters during a recent performance, the body-shaming insult carried additional resonance.


“I want everybody to shake they ass when this f–king song come on,” Tyler said on stage.


“Hey A$ AP Rocky, shake that ass. Shake it on Jaden [Smith], he next to you, he might like it with his weird ass. Where Kendall? She ain’t go no ass but shake them bones.”






Suffice it to say, things got quite weird at Tyler’s performance over the weekend.


Obviously, it’s his comments about Kendall’s figure that are drawing the most attention — though encouraging A$ AP Rocky to shake his ass on Jaden Smith is pretty odd, too.


But it’s possible that all the uproar over Tyler body-shaming Kendall is baseless.



It’s important to note that Tyler and Kendall are friends, and he has a history of publicly and playfully mocking her.


At Coachella in 2015, Tyler called out Kendall out in brutal fashion during his set on the main stage.


“Kendall Jenner over here thinking she’s cute and sh-tt. Hey Kendall, Kendall, Kendall, I’m over here to your right. F-ck you,” he said.



While many in attendance were shocked by the comment, Kendall responded by playfully flipping Tyler the bird.


He later clarified the nature of their relationship on Instagram, writing:


“@KendallJenner PEOPLE REALLY THINK I HATE YOU LOVE HAHAHAH.”



At one point it was widely rumored that Tyler and Kendall were dating, but the rapper shot those rumors down, jokingly (we think) tweeting:


“Not possible, we’re both gay.”


So in all likelihood, Tyler was just having a laugh with an old friend when he commented on Kendall’s physique.



Now, there are some who will argue that even if they’re friends and the comment was made in jest, it’s still not okay for Tyler to publicly speak about Kendall in those terms.


They may have a point — but the joke is really quite tame compared to some of the other things Tyler has said over the years..


We’re not saying that makes it okay — just pointing out that Kendall probably wasn’t terribly shocked.



ReadMore…

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Tess Holliday Claps Back After Piers Morgan Body-Shames Her Cosmo Cover

Piers Morgan can be such a mixed bag. It’s nice ot see him berate that vulture Samantha Grant. It’s gross to see him ask Caitlin Jenner creepy questions about her body.


This time, he’s making gross comments about another woman’s body — plus size model and trailblazer Tess Holliday.


Tess graced the cover of Cosmopolitan, and Piers was apparently unable to resist commenting on her body and accusing her of being some sort of public health hazard.



Before Piers decided to insert his opinion into the narrative, Tess was delighted with her cover.


“Phew,” Tess writes on Instagram. “I’m literally a COSMO GIRL!!”


“Can’t believe I’m saying that!” she continues. “Thank you @CosmopolitanUK for this incredible opportunity “


Tess discusses the impact that body positivity can have, writing: “If I saw a body like mine on this magazine when I was a young girl, it would have changed my life “


Tess advises her fans: “Issue hits stands 8/31!”



Unfortunately, Piers Morgan is one of those dudes who worries about other people loving themselves on their terms instead of on his.


“As Britain battles an ever-worsening obesity crisis,” Piers laments. “This is the new cover of Cosmo.”


“Apparently,” Piers continues. “We’re supposed to view it as a ‘huge step forward for body positivity.’”


“What a load of old baloney,” Piers declares.


This cover,” Piers continues. “Is just as dangerous & misguided as celebrating size zero models.”



Tess took to Twitter and hit back.


“To everyone saying I’m a burden to the British health care system,” Tess begins.


“I’m american,” Texx explains. “So you don’t have to worry about my fat ass.”


She is such a delight and doesn’t hesitate to use humor when speaking truth to power. Good for her.


(Naturally, we shouldn’t conflate body size with health, and no one should be seen as a “burden” because of their health)



Tess says that the people who are uncomfortable with the size of her body, which literally does not impact them at all, should have more important things on their minds.


“Worry about what horrible people you are,” Tess suggests to her detractors.


That’s harsh — but considering that Piers just accused her of being the next Typhoid Mary and he was far from the worst person to comment, it’s fair.


She says that they have demonstrated that they’re horrible “by whining about how me being on the cover of a glossy magazine impacts your small minded life.”


It’s difficult to understand why so many people feel like they have the right to tell other people what to do with their own bodies.



Tess’ body does not impact the rest of us. It just doesn’t. 


But a photo of her on the cover of a magazine could have a very real and powerful effect on little girls (or others, but girls especially) who are struggling to love themselves.


When people like Piers say that body positive images of Tess and women like her will somehow make the “obesity epidemic” worse, it is clear what they really mean.


They mean that people who have learned to love themselves won’t go on dangerous starvation diets that ultimately don’t work in a desperate attempt to get their bodies looking how Piers wants them to.


If you think that one body type is more attractive than another, that’s fine — we all have preferences. But women are allowed to just exist without you wanting to bang them.



ReadMore…

Monday, July 30, 2018

Farrah Abraham: Dad Body-Shames Kailyn Lowry in Disgusting Tweets!

Farrah Abraham is so awful, right?


The kind of awful that you’re not just born with — nope, that kind of awfulness has to be learned.



And over the years, as Farrah and her family were featured more and more on reality television, it became painfully clear where she learned it.


Guys, her parents are THE WORST.


We usually talk about her mother, Debra Danielsen, because she’s so much more actively bad.


Remember the time she slapped Farrah on an early season of Teen Mom OG?


Or the time she got arrested for abusing her (and answered the door with knives in her hands when police came)?


Or when she wasn’t allowed to see Farrah or Sophia after the arrest and she acted like she had no idea why that was?


Or, to go forward a few years, that time she got into an argument with Farrah in front of Sophia and started crying about how she wanted to die, because that’s appropriate talk for a child to hear?



There are so, so many instances of Debra being manipulative and weird and just totally inappropriate, but you know who else is just as terrible, but in a different way?


Her father, Michael Abraham.


He’s pretty much the opposite of Debra: instead of arguing with Farrah over everything to the point where she got cut out of her life, Michael agrees with everything she says, and she and Sophia have been living with him.


He seems to be on Twitter pretty much constantly, defending his daughter to anyone and everyone who has anything negative to say about her.


And that’s what he’s been doing over the weekend.


So you know how Farrah always goes on and on about bullies, about how she’s the victim of bullies and she’s so against bullying, even though we’ve seen her be a bully to countless people over the years?


OK, and you know she’s getting into those celebrity boxing matches, and even hopes to do one and donate the proceeds to an anti-bullying organization?



Lindsey Nicholson, who you might remember from 16 and Pregnant, took notice of all of that, and she decided to call Farrah out on Instagram.


“Really,” she asked, “you think you’re not a bully? Have you watched any of your episodes? You bully your mom dad, producers, cast members, & anyone you think is less than you.”


“Why don’t you get in the ring with me & try to bully me around and see how that goes.”


She hilariously referenced Farrah’s amazing feud with Drita D’Avanzo, saying that if Farrah wasn’t interested in fighting her, then she’s sure Drita “won’t have any issues doing this for all of America.”


Lindsey even offered to train Drita, because she’s sweet like that.


The Ashley’s Reality Roundup reached out to her, and she told the site that she really does mean what she wrote.



“I would never call someone out if I wasn’t [serious],” she said. “I don’t really play games.”


“It’s just strange she’s fighting to raise money for anti-bullying when she bullies everyone!”


She explained “I want to fight her because of the way she’s treated every single person I know who’s come in contact with her. She needs to be put in her place.”


Ideally, she said that she’d do an MMA fight with Farrah, “but I highly doubt she’d agree to it.”


Can you imagine? Can you even imagine how amazing that would be?


Hold on tight, because this is about to get even better.


Drita responded to all of this, directing a message to Farrah on Instagram that began with “Listen up #horseface I called u out … n u called a lawyer!!”



“Are u gonna have a cop as the referee 2???????????? I don’t want u wearing headgear!..i don’t want a referee stopping anything!…I rather be on the streets.”


She actually said that she told Farrah that she’d pay for her to come meet her for a fight, “since u are so desperate to use my name to make a dollar.”


“Howeva,” she continued, “I have a better idea…i love boxing but when it comes to u I rather fight in a cage #ufcstyle.”


Yes. Yes, please.


“Wanna do it legit,” Drita added, “no problem.. in a #cage where u belong u filthy #animal. Give me the date and time!!! I’m here! I’m ready!”


This story started getting some attention, and Lindsey tweeted about it, and she also asked Kailyn Lowry, one of her friends from the Teen Mom franchise, if she wanted in on the action.


“I’m in,” Kailyn responded.



And that’s when Michael decided to get involved in the cattiest way possible.


“To bad we won’t see Drita fight she is like me… way to old ‘age group’ and she is not one to promote anti hate,” he tweeted.


“And Kail is in a lot higher weight class so that won’t happen either lol!”


So rude, right? And Kailyn’s Teen Mom bestie, Chelsea Houska, called him out on it.


“Yikes,” she told him. “Horrible and low blow thing to say about Kail. Please don’t comment on a woman’s weight in any way.”


She’s completely right, obviously, and Michael had to know what he wrote was wrong — but of course he denied that.


“Chelsea I have the highest respect for you and your entire family,” he wrote. “No it was not meant as low blow towards Kail…”



“It’s a realistic statement backed by fact that in any fighting event weight classes are real and used as competitive classes.”


He meant that so much that he gave similar responses to several other people upset that he went after Kailyn like that — 34 times so far, if we’re being exact.


As for Kailyn, she thanked Chelsea for defending her, then wrote this gem of a tweet:


“Y’all coming for Michael for talking about my weight, thank you. But I’d be willing to drop weight for that fight so it’s not a problem.”


Can dreams really come true?


Guess we’ll have to wait until Farrah’s big match on November 3rd to see!



ReadMore…

Monday, March 13, 2017

Nathan Griffith Body-Shames Trainer on Snapchat, Gets Banned From Gold"s Gym

It’s been quite a week for Jenelle Evans’ exes.


First, Courtland Rogers is getting out of jail and vowing to win her back (though she mercifully wants her former husband to steer clear).


Now, Nathan Griffith is persona non grata at Gold’s Gym after he body-shamed a trainer there with a horribly insensitive Snapchat pic.



If you watch Teen Mom 2 online, you know that the father of Evans’ second son, Kaiser, has been in the news for many negative reasons.


From on-air arguments to off-air domestic violence, to DUI, to fighting Jenelle for custody of Kai, Griffith has never been far from trouble.


He can’t even go to the gym without causing problems, apparently, as he showed by cyber-bullying someone during a recent workout.


Yes, Nathan decided to also flex his bullying muscles in addition to his biceps when he cruelly mocked a Gold’s Gym trainer on Snapchat.


Griffith posted the photo of a trainer at the gym below, and captioned the image, “When the trainer is fat than her client with no muscles.”


Total class act, this guy.



(In addition to being a jackass, Nathan is also a moron, based on that grammatically incorrect caption, but that’s neither here nor there.)


Many of Nathan’s Snapchat followers, who should probably rethink their lives for even following him, were rightfully appalled by this.


They quickly took action, and he’s paying the price.


After figuring out which specific gym Nathan was pumping iron at, Internet sleuths began bombarding the Gold’s Gym Twitter account.


Having been alerted, Gold’s was not having it.


In response to tweets from irate Teen Mom 2 fans, the gym said in a statement that Nathan Griffith is banned from the premises for bullying.


Effective immediately.






“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this behavior. This person’s membership has been terminated,” the popular gym franchise tweeted.


Nate has yet to reply to getting his gym membership revoked, but we suspect an indignant, borderline illegible response in due time.


Could he face legal charges for doing this? He might want to consult the lawyer for disgraced former Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers.


Mathers, you recall, is in hot water over a Snapchat pic she posted last fall of showed a nude woman in her gym locker room changing.


Dani, who later apologized (for getting caught),  body-shamed the woman in the caption, writing “if I can’t unsee this, neither can you.”


A criminal charge, if issued, is Dissemination of Private Images, which is a misdemeanor which could carry a six-month jail sentence.



A bit extreme for a bad Snapchat joke?


Perhaps, but not necessarily if you consider that Nathan isn’t just being a dick (he is a dick, but it goes beyond that) in this situation.


Publicly humiliating another person and invading their privacy in such fashion does potentially cause the victim considerable harm. 


Safe to say that Jenelle Evans is better off these days with her current fiance, David Eason, than either Griffith or Rogers …


We just hope her good relationship lasts.


ReadMore…

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Dani Mathers: Playboy Model Body-Shames Stranger, Gets SLAMMED on Social Media

In 2016, most public figures have the sense to keep the douchiest parts of their personalities under wraps.


Sadly, it seems Playboy model and inexplicably mega-popular social media star Dani Mathers can afford neither a PR team nor a sense of basic human decency.



Yesterday Mathers posted a photo of a naked woman in the locker room of her gym, along with a caption reading:


“If I can’t unsee this, neither can you.”


Yes, obviously what Mathers did was more than just plain wrong, it was incredibly tone deaf.


Countless celebrities have spoken out about the serious problem of online body-shaming in recent months, and it’s unimaginable that a young woman with a major web following would think that’s even remotely okay.


That said, Mathers did post a lengthy, and seemingly genuinely contrite apology on Twitter shortly after the image went viral:


I want to acknowledge my post from snapchat earlier. There is no excuse…I understand fully the magnitude of this post and that I have hurt


“This mistake has truly made me realize that something that can seem silly in a private conversation isn’t unnecessary. All I’ve done here is


“Spread negativity and hate when that isn’t who I am. I chose to model because I appreciate women and their bodies, so me of all people,


“[I] should never make light of another woman’s naked body.”


Before deleting her account entirely, Mathers added:


“I’m sorry for what I did… I need to take some time to myself now to reflect on why I did this horrible thing. Goodnight.”


It goes without saying that what Mathers did was deplorable beyond description.


That said, her apology seems genuine, and then online smear campaign against her has turned truly ugly.


If you’re a Game of Thrones fan, think of Cersei Lannister in Season 5.


She did some awful, awful things, but seeing her forced to walk naked through King’s Landing while being pelted with fruit was still incredibly tough to watch.


Think of that next time you’re tempted to eviscerate a stranger online, and if you’re not familiar with the show, just remember this oft-quoted chestnut:


“Let he who has never accidentally posted a nude throw the first shade. – St. Anthony Weiner