tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382576775469146877.post334417452352567030..comments2022-12-03T11:17:46.179-08:00Comments on Ponyboy Press - zine maker, design lover, dedicated homebody: the art we choosePonyBoy Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185468090551356611noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382576775469146877.post-5224741736734708842009-03-23T09:12:00.000-07:002009-03-23T09:12:00.000-07:00I think that you expressed yourself very well. It ...I think that you expressed yourself very well. It reminded me of some essays I once read about the Suicide Girls site. They promote themselves as so indie because they have tattoos and piercings, but the standards for body type are every bit as rigid as they are in most other media. <BR/><BR/>So I don't know. Are all of these art girls just buying into the skinny girl standard? Are all of their friends really little skinny-indie girls? Or are they concerned about market pressure, worried that curvy-girl art wouldn't sell?<BR/><BR/>As a woman who has had a child, I find it very tiring that it is nigh-impossible to find images of women that have obviously have children represented as beautiful. We've all seen the Hollywood mommas bounced back to their skinny selves within weeks, but no images with stretchmarks, with the strange sags which I had no idea were <I>so incredibly common</I> after childbirth until I stumbled across an online community created around the topic in the months after giving birth...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link. I will check it out!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382576775469146877.post-48023704193767615512009-03-22T18:37:00.000-07:002009-03-22T18:37:00.000-07:00That is great. What an awesome thing that you can ...That is great. What an awesome thing that you can tell a difference. Yeah, thanks so much for commenting and sharing your thoughts. I know what you mean, I pretty much have only bought motifs that are animals or nature for this reason, and to take it even further, I am especially fond of animals that are big, like bears, elephants, hippos, etc. Fat Power in the animal world, too! :-)PonyBoy Presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01185468090551356611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382576775469146877.post-25863992663485676032009-03-22T18:15:00.000-07:002009-03-22T18:15:00.000-07:00I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN! I've actually had th...I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN! I've actually had this thought a BUNCH of times: why is all the pretty indie artwork of skinny little (mostly) white girls with big eyes? So I've mostly stopped buying. I think this is a lot of why I've gotten into plant images and other nonhuman design motifs.<BR/><BR/>When I look around my room, there are not very many images of women and girls in this (what I will call for lack for lack of a better term) skinny-indie style, because I have purposely tried to cull them from my collection over the last few years. So there are still a few that I especially like, but mostly I have images of women I admire for reasons besides their looks/bodies: Marjane Satrapi, Dolores Huerta, Tina Fey, ladies from bands I like... And around my mirror I've made a real effort to put up pictures of fat women that make me feel beautiful.<BR/><BR/>And you know what? I've been a lot happier with myself and the way I look since I took on this conscious decorating shift.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com