Your Yucky Body: Embrace Your Shape Edition!

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Seriously, even Vogue has an annual "Shape" issue where they patronizingly allow someone as (*GASP*) huge as Beyonce or Kate Winslet on the cover in addition to their usual sub-zero model roundup... then offer drastic dieting tips... all while mysteriously claiming to promote body acceptance: And don't miss the small print under the "LOVE YOUR BODY! headlines...

I threw in the "Lucy Loser" joke after being enraged by comments in an Entertainment Weekly piece (from the 7/31/09 issue) claiming that the proliferation of "inspiring" weight loss reality TV shows is a public good. Says the Style Network's Coleman Smith:

"Given what is going on with the country with obesity, I absolutely think weight loss is its own category. ... It's enabled us to stop thinking we live in a size 2 world by appropriately embracing real people." (emphasis mine)

Ah, I see. The only APPROPRIATE way to show non-size-2 bodies on TV is to show people trying to DIET DOWN to become a size 2! And this is about HEALTH, not HUMILIATION and RATINGS, right? That's body positivity we can all believe in! This cartoon is part of a series I've been doing for a while now. See also:

• "Your Yucky Body: A Repair Manual" (the original)
• "Summer Swimsuit Spectacular"
• "Designer Dieting"
• "Mommy Makeovers"

For more on fake body positivity, see...

• Marianne Kirby's Daily Beast piece "Really Big Love". (Kirby says of "More to Love": "It’s a one-two punch of acceptance followed by a knockout blow of shame" and that she's "tempted to make up a drinking game around how often the contestants and suitor on the show say 'voluptuous, curvy women.' It would be an easy way to get sloshed.")
• My pal Jenn Pozner, who is live-tweeting a host of reality TV horrors as she writes her book Reality Bites Back.

Update: I've been getting a lot of comments on this post I've had to reject. So FYI, if you are going to leave mean-spirited comments that refer to people as "blimps" or claiming that men only find skinny women attractive, I will reject them.

Toon: Freedom of Health Care Choice!

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NOT that I think much of the watered-down health care reform that Obama is pushing for (you know I'm a single-payer woman), but hell, it's better than what we got!

Toon: Movies for Ladies!

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Cause men! and women! are DIFFERENT! in HILARIOUS ways! More on this topic later.

Toon: Sarah Palin Quits... for Victory!

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This is from last week, of course.

Cagle video interview with me and Jen on women, cartooning, lewd humor!

Cagle has a two-part video interview with me and Jen Sorensen (of Slowpoke fame) from the AAEC convention in Seattle last week. Even Editor & Publisher took note!

Vice President Reid!

I've been nominated as the only candidate for Vice President (and very likely future President-Elect and President) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists! This is an honor/exciting/terrifying.

P.S. Also, I may have mentioned this before, but I'm on Twitter. You could have gotten that news live from the nomination meeting!