They look so cool! I was just thinking today (after the 9th advert came on full of shiny tall women with swoopy hair and fluttery dresses and megawatt smiles and perfect skin and giraffe necks being all aspirational about perfume or makeup or diamonds how FUCKING SICK I AM of media being exclusively full of women who look nothing like the women I see in real life. Real live women are MUCH more interesting and aspirational than that. It makes me angry that we're supposed to aspire to be something *less* than what we are.
yes, this is super important. i do miss roller derby in part for that. and i wish it had caught on even more than it has, because it was such a great sport in terms of body types-- unlike, say, marathon-running, there are advantages and disadvantages to being tall or short or thin or heavyset or anything. we had a team of 15, with 5 women under 5'3", and 5 women over 200 lbs, and so on. it was really interesting.
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