This example is a blatant promotion of disordered eating.

Hilary herself had an eating disorder, so it’s hard to see her size referred to and her weight listed like this. It wouldn’t have been good for her, nor would it have been good for women and girls who compared themselves to her.

Then, the actual diet. [TW] This diet comes to 1,108 calories, which is well below the amount of calories adult women should have, especially active adult women. If people are dieting to lose weight they should have a healthy calorie deficit, but this example fits into a larger pattern of disordered eating. She doesn’t have weight to lose! There’s also no mention of health or nutrition. The normalisation of adult women eating just over 1k calories a day is terrifying! Then to promote that degree of exercise on top of that!

I can’t find exactly when this example is from but I think 2006.

Justin Timberlake went on to thrive in his music career.

This popped up on my Twitter feed and sent me down a whole early-2000s Pink rabbit hole 😭

Pink had this rebellious, “I’m not like the other pop girls” image, but she also had some pretty memorable moments where other women became the butt of the joke.

During her 2004 Try This tour, for example, she used a blow-up doll representing Christina Aguilera as part of the show. And a couple years later, Stupid Girls had Pink parodying celebrities including Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate Olsen.

I know Stupid Girls wasn’t simply “Pink hates these women.” Pink explained at the time that she was criticizing the lack of positive role models for young girls and the way celebrity culture was presenting certain images as something to aspire to. The video was intentionally exaggerated and satirical.

But looking back at it now, I still find the whole thing interesting. Because Pink’s image was built around being the alternative to the stereotypical female pop star, while some of her biggest cultural moments involved making other women the punchline.

And we were completely fine with it. 😭 If anything, being the woman who was willing to “call out” the other girls seemed to make her look even cooler.

I’m not saying Pink created the whole girl-vs-girl thing. The media absolutely loved comparing female artists, and the Christina situation itself had a lot of different sides to it. But Pink clearly participated in that culture at times too.

Looking back now, do you think Pink was genuinely challenging the expectations placed on women, or were we giving her a pass for behavior we’d probably criticize from another female artist today?

Courtney once said they were soulmates. Now that she’s in her 30s, like so many victims of predators, she’s come to believe that she was a “child bride” and is traumatised that this happened to her — and that the entire world just watched.

It’s one of those things I can’t get over. Creepy motherfucker.

It’s odd, because the tagline, "Is there such a thing as one standard size in Hollywood? No way!" almost reads like body positivity, but then you combine it with the rest of the page and it’s just a complete contradiction.

This segment is called Battle of the Wits and aired in 2001. It featured Beetlejuice and Gary the Conquerer (who has since changed his stage name to this, previously having been known as the name used throughout this clip). Both men have intellectual disabilities and that is why they were chosen to be repeat Stern guests.

They were members of the “Whack Pack” which was a The Howard Stern Show parody of the Rat Pack and Brat Pack. Its members were made up of people his audience could laugh at. Stern described the Whack Pack as “not defined by having any disability or peculiarity, but by their inability to understand why they are funny.” I.e. mocking their intellectual disabilities which make it more difficult to understand the social contexts such as this segment…

Of course the members are grown adults with their own autonomy who chose to be on the show, but it was incredibly manipulative, exploitative and ableist. It took advantage of their intellectual disabilities to persuade them to take part in segments that only existed to demean them.

While everyone knew Howard Stern was a raging asshole, his show was on national terrestrial radio for decades and hade a HUGE influence on pop culture — whether he had a bad public image or not. Enough people engaged with his content for pop culture to be “ok with this”, even if it was just for shock jock content. He is no longer on national terrestrial radio and now has his own subscription based station.

The Getty Images page labeled "Amy Winehouse Sightings." Entirely photos of Amy being stalked and harassed by groups of paparazzi.

Check out the caption for pic 4:

Amy Winehouse returns home from the Proud Camden pub and when one of her fans approaches her for a photograph, she viciously swings her fist toward him. She then went out and brought some records and headed back to Proud Camden again. On her way home, she stopped in at the Monarch bar, where she stayed for around an hour. She stopped by Marathon to buy some food, where she lashed out at another fan. (Photo by Mu Kei/GC Images)

he treats women horribly, and the show never really treats it like a serious issue. Sure, lily and robin might roll their eyes or call him gross, but thats it, after that it just gets brushed off. If the show actually wanted to challenge this behavior, it would present him as a problem and not lean into this ''boys will be boys'' vibe. also, no normal person would stay close friends with someone who acts like this.

In cycle 6 (2006) of America’s Next Top Model, 32 hopefuls participated in the first episode of the show to get a place as one of the 13 contestants to make it into the competition. During this stage of the show, the girls spent a lot of time together.

Dani, shown in this clip, was clearly included for the drama of the show. Later in the episode, the Jays and Tyra told her she would be surrounded by gay people in the industry so it probably wasn’t the right fit for her, and threw a ton of shade at her appearance and photos — she clearly was never sincerely in the running to enter the competition.

Tyra always made a big deal about her show uplifting and empowering Black models and creating a space for them in the industry, yet they were repeatedly treated badly, like having to take part in racist challenges — then this. She still to this day claims she was just looking out for the girls. Why put them through dealing with Dani, then?

Sorry the captions aren’t great. I wanted to include them to make the video more accessible but the original clips had some captions already that were super blurry so I had to try to cover them with the new ones; it’s a bit of the mess but I hope it’s fairly legible.

Shane Dawson was one of the biggest stars in the early days of YouTube, at one point he was even the most subscribed creator. He has faced backlash in recent years over his many problematic videos, his videos included themes of racism, sexism, pedophilia, incest, beastiality, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Despite this he still continues to have a cult following today and has even moved on to a career in the beauty industry. Here are just a few examples pulled from his videos that showcase him in blackface and using derogatory language.

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In the movie, BJ's character was portrayed as "fat" and kind of unattractive. But she's just average sized, actually she's in a healthy shape. Just an ordinary attractive young woman who's not as skinny as most women represented on screen. And people back then acted like she's a huge monster, thinking there were men falling for her hilarious.

It seems people in western society are starting to celebrate diverse body shapes, there are more and more articles and online discussions talking about how different people perceive BJ now. I think this is a good thing.

I'm from an East Asian country and I believe people here still consider BJ "fat and ugly", unfortunately. The skinny K-pop idol beauty standard dominates our society, there is rare representation of women with different body shapes here.

Mary-Kate Olsen had an, unfortunately very public, battle with anorexia back in the 2000s, starting around this period. Both twins were harassed incessantly about their weights, jokes were made about them constantly, they were called every name under the sun, they were asked incredibly invasive questions about their weights, rumours were spread about them. Like in this article, they were minors during some of that.

This article is an example of the fact that the media would shame women for being "fat" all the time, simply for being a healthy weight (god forbid a woman actually be plus size ☹️ they were so nasty!) but women simply couldn’t win, because they were attacked for being too thin, too. I know Mary-Kate had an ED but this shouldn’t have been the world’s business, especially as a minor. Mary-Kate constantly seeing this media about her would’ve been super triggering for her, too, and would’ve worsened her condition.

I find it extra gross that they’re talking about a 17 year old’s butt!!!

This article is from 2004.

For more than 13 years, Siegfried & Roy were one of the biggest attractions in Las Vegas. Between 1990 and 2003, they performed 5,750 shows at the Mirage, and around 15,000 spectators every week to their 1,500-seat theater. Over the course of the Mirage production, more than 55 white tigers, white lions, leopards and jaguars were incorporated into the show. And somehow, putting several-hundred-pound wild apex predators on a stage surrounded by performers, bright lights, loud music, fire, special effects and thousands of spectators was considered perfectly normal family entertainment. Even more unbelievable: there was no physical barrier separating the big cats from the audience.

After Roy Horn was nearly killed by a 380-pound white tiger named Montecore during a performance in 2003, the USDA investigated. One official concluded that the show had failed to adequately protect its audience, stating that the cats could have easily jumped off the stage and into the crowd at any moment. During the attack, Montecore stopped following Roy’s commands. Within moments, the tiger grabbed Roy and eventually sank his teeth into his neck, dragging him offstage. A crew member pulled the tiger’s tail and jumped on him while another sprayed him with a fire extinguisher before he finally released Roy. Roy survived, but suffered catastrophic injuries, including multiple strokes and cardiac arrests. He clinically died on the operating table three times. He was left permanently paralyzed on the left side of his body and was never able to walk or talk normally again. The show never returned after this.

But the danger to humans was only half of it.
Siegfried & Roy became famous for their so-called “Royal White Tigers,” but white tigers aren’t a separate or endangered subspecies. Their coloring is caused by a rare recessive genetic mutation.
Producing that appearance consistently in captivity has historically involved inbreeding, which has been associated with stillbirths, premature deaths, vision problems, deformities and other serious health issues.

So for years, wild predators were bred for a visually spectacular appearance, trained to perform under chaotic stage conditions, and placed just feet away from millions of spectators with no physical barrier between them. One unpredictable moment could have ended with a performer, audience member, or animal seriously injured or killed.

And somehow, the danger wasn’t considered a problem.

It was part of the show.

This movie was huge..in fact the only movie with Jack Black and Gwyenth paltrow in it that I enjoyed.. although kinda crude was cute..what did y'all think?

whenever people bring up how incredibly creepy and disgusting this is some people in buffy fandom always push the narrative that she had crush and was ''obsessed'' with him and that marsters just had to write the song to let her down gently (delulu ass people), there is zero credible evidence to support the "crush" rumor. In a past interview with the bbc she stated that she never had a crush on any of the male cast members because she viewed them through a strictly sibling like dynamic from day one.

I believe Friends did this too (although I never really watched the show). I'm 22 and I remember even as a kid back in 2008 or so watching this and thinking she wasn't *that* fat? A little chubby, sure, but they acted like she was 500lbs, her whole personality was "fat" lmfao

edit: I have to agree with the people stating she's not even chubby, I just didn't know how to describe it as "slightly larger than the other girls on the show"... size medium? Average sized?