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Maxim put a gorgeous normal-sized woman on the cover of its “Hot 100” issue this year and, as predictably as the swallows returning to Capistrano, internet losers have crawled out from under their rocks to castigate her as “lazy and overweight.”
In the replies to a tweet from the New York Post on the subject, the incels assemble, a good number of them sporting the blue checkmarks you have to pay Elon Musk $8 a month to have by your name.
Yes, I’m sure that God thinks she’s a hideous fat uggo.
Others joked that “at least she’s a woman.”
A few commenters offered critiques of the critiques.
The reactions of the losers aside, I’m not sure that Maxim deserves any awards for courage for labeling this very attractive woman very attractive. Maxim’s article on Graham is filled with language celebrating this average-sized woman as some weird anomaly in the world of attractive women:
The bodacious bombshell’s confidence is contagious and inspirational, proving that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. In a world where size zero has reigned supreme for far too long, Ashley reminds us that the secret to overcoming it all isn’t just about embracing your curves, but accepting yourself just the way you are.
“All shapes and sizes?” Really? Graham is pretty much the same size as the average woman, and it’s doubtful many straight men (aside from her performative online critics) would have any real problem with her particular shape. She’s not actually fat or even “plus-sized” by the standards of anything other than the modeling industry. Hell, she was on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue–seven years ago. Finding her hot is not a revolutionary act.
By the way, here’s the profile picture of Donnie, the guy who thinks Graham is “lazy and overweight, most men don’t want you.”
Not to cast aspersions, but come on, dude. You’re overweight. Not that this is a sin–hell, I’m officially obese myself–but seriously, the self-awareness is not strong with these guys. Glass houses, fellas.
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She has a very similar body type to Christina Hendricks but is more of a “apple” than “hourglass” (or she doesn’t regularly use corsets). I seem to remember that back before everything was a culture war CH was being happily drooled over by men on either side of the political fence.
Haha. There’s a certain irony in this statement, given that when some women express a preference for tall, muscled, classically handsome and charismatic men that this is apparently WRONG and DEGENERATE and a sign of women’s inherent stupid impulsivity.
@Raging Bee
I don’t think it will surprise anyone here that it turns out there is an adult film star who goes by “Ashlee Graham,” though she is much shorter (5′ 2″ to the model’s 5′ 10″) and smaller-framed. I would not be surprised if what you suggested applied to Alison Tyler, who is even taller (6′ 0″) and has a very similar frame.
But clearly adult film stars are not hired because many men find them sexy.
@GSS ex-noob:
The last I heard (i.e. yesterday), Twitter was applying the blue check mark to some well-known accounts who not only haven’t paid for it, but have repeatedly stated they don’t want it. Dril apparently keeps tweaking the name of his account in order to get rid of the checkmark, and Musk’s employees keep re-adding it, while various people point out that this may count as fraud, because it makes Dril appear to endorse Musk when he doesn’t, at least if you don’t read any of his posts—he’s been mocking Musk and the situation pretty vociferously. Taking on Dril was a very bad idea on Musk’s part—the guy’s basically a Dadaist kung-fu master and it’s hard to debate somebody who’s playing an entirely different game.
@ moon custafer
Yeah, we’ve been chatting about this on law twitter. I’m not sure there is much anyone can do. However I think it’s a good excuse for a video. And an excuse to trot this case out again….
https://www.lawteacher.net/cases/tolley-v-fry.php
Off topic, but the news just broke that Tucker Carlson is out at Fox.
I’ve seen a couple of videos with Ashley Graham, and thought she seemed like a person who would make for an interesting dinner guest. She’s comfy in her skin and believes everybody else should be, too. Rock on, says I.
She also seems to be happily married with a child, which may infuriate her detractors. After all, how dare she not take herself out of the gene pool? Doesn’t she know she’s betraying the species? (Or whatever pseudo-evo nonsense they’re spouting this week.)
@Ninja Socialist: Agreed. Also the ‘God want you to be healthy, wealthy and wise’ shit hit a nerve. Wealthy? Guess we know what denomination that dude follows.
Speaking of weirdos, Tucker Carlson and Fox News have parted company.
Officially it’s all mutual, but I think it’s notable that he didn’t get a final show.
I guess if you cost your boss three quarters of a billion dollars that really comes up at your annual performance review.
@Moon Custafer; @GSS ex-noob; @Alan Robertshaw:
The last I heard (i.e. yesterday), Twitter was applying the blue check mark to some well-known accounts who not only haven’t paid for it, but have repeatedly stated they don’t want it.
It gets even better: Musk, in his determination to rub his little privilege scent glands over all he surveys, has blue-checked accounts of dead users (does anyone see Anthony Bourdain, Terry Pratchett, or Chadwick Boseman as even remotely likely to have been Musk sympathizers?)
@Alan Robertshaw
He’ll probably have a new job with another far right outlet by the end of the month.
@ fabe
Undoubtably. I can see why the lawyers will have advised getting shut if him though.
I used to provide legal advice to a couple of Murdoch publications. If the head of legal had a go at me I would mutter ‘at least I’m not in the Guinness Book of Records’. (He’d signed off on a story that resulted in, what was then, the highest ever defamation payout. £3M to Elton John)
But $785.5M. Wow.
My first thought was, “Excellent news.”
My second thought is that he’ll be taken on by OAN or Breitbart, and some viewers will follow him and be carried even further away from reality and decency.
But hopefully, Tucker gets a pay cut.
Supposedly, RT already sent Tucker a job offer. Putin wants only the best.
Fox fired Fucker Carlson!!
https://truthout.org/articles/tucker-carlson-is-no-longer-at-fox-news-company-says/
@David
What is ‘RT’ and what is it’s connection to Russia/Putin?
@ fabe
Russian state sponsored news channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
@Lollypop: I guess despite my college education, working with big time CS guys, and reading things in Latin for fun, I am hopelessly shallow for liking to watch Chris Hemsworth flex and smile. Hellooooo god of thunder! Have always fancied George Clooney, too, speaking of charm. Denzel is also easy on the eyes and ears, so’s Michael B. Jordan. And who doesn’t love Pedro Pascal? (But here I’ve mentioned PoC, so I suppose these chuds would call me a race traitor) The Mr. is average size and build, but cute and smart and never had more than a small spare tire for a few middle-aged years.
@Moon: Everyone’s disclaiming them. Stephen King and Neil Gaiman have been roasting Muskrat over it. Halle Berry noped out, as did NPR. So many famous people and big institutions said no way that the user base is plummeting faster than the valuation. Who knows what further flailing fuckery will happen this week?
@Vicky P: I had not heard of her before this, but she seems like a basically normal/nice person, except for being uncommonly attractive.
@Alan, @Surplus: This is the best news I’ve heard in ages! You’re only useful to the right wing when you’re turning a profit for them; you’re out as soon as that stops.
@Dave: Pooty-Poot (as Bush Jr. called him — not a bad nickname) already had Tuck by the irradiated balls, so no problem.
@FM Ox: Chris Cornell too! None of those gents would have supported this. Pterry’d be writing him as a villain in Ankh-Morpork, Chadwick would have had something wise and cutting to say, and Bourdain would have said many things which are unsuitable for children.
Does Tucker Carlson have political ambitions beyond “cable demagogue”? Trump will be looking for a running mate.
CNN also tossed recent WHTM miscreant Don Lemon’s misogynist out the door today!
@Moggie: Nah, tuck’s only wanting to blather lies inanely as a talking head.
I like how he thought on Friday that he was coming back Monday. Not expecting that phone call yesterday, I bet. Also liked Whoopi (another Twitter leaver) leading “The View” audience in “Na na na, na na na, hey hey, gooodbye”.
https://evonomics.com/how-interest-rates-redistribute-income/
I’d go further, and say that its role has always been that of the priesthood legitimating the unearned privileges of the ruling class. Every other class-stratified society in history has had such, so it’s hardly surprising to find that so does ours.
This passage is most interesting for what it says about the author. That overt, direct, and strong a criticism of the very concept of property rights is a good indication that they’re an outright communist, and that the site it’s on is accepting a diversity of views that positively shatters the American Overton window.
There are several takeaways from this.
Long term, there can be no economic justice as long as the monetary system is a fiat one and banking is not nationalized, or at least somehow democratized. (Nothing but credit unions, perhaps? Would fit in with eliminating the other rentier classes through worker ownership of all firms I suppose.)
One of the characters in “Wakanda Forever” caught my eye when I saw the film a while back.
Definitely not the typical rail-thin VS-model look.
Equally definitely not unattractive.
On the body shape terminology matter, perhaps the jargon of anthropologists will help: broader-boned is termed “robust”, and more slender “gracile”. That might avoid loaded terms that have acquired troublesome value-judgment connotations. Certainly having a diversity of body shapes aids our species in leveraging one of its strengths: specialization of labor. (Who’s likely better at climbing trees, vs. carrying a heavy basket of fruit back to the village? Or running fast and hurling a spear with force and accuracy, vs. bringing a heavy carcass to where it can be butchered? Lumberjack, vs. doing fiddly detail work stitching clothes together? Etc.)
I’m a bit behind the times on this one, I admit.
But to whoever was talking about the Dora Villaja (been a while)
1) thank you Christopher Priest (fka Jim Owlsly for purposes of avoiding confusion with the identically named British novelist)
2) they’re the King’s bodyguards; the elite. Just under the Panthers themselves in terms of combat ability.
Nobody who doesn’t look like they can handle in a fight is getting cast as a soldier. Unless they’re playing covert ops & you want them being a soldier to surprise people.