Get Thee To The Peach Pit!

So let's leave aside how boring the new 90210 is. Cause it is. Let's focus instead on another issue. While I was watching last weeks episode (only because I had heard that Kelly's mom was going to be back and drunk - and yes, that was fabulous), it occurred to me that the actress playing Erin "Call Me Silver" Silver, Jessica Stroup, was incredibly skinny. Like so skinny, that she made AnnaLynne McCord look almost normal. Almost, I said, cause watching AnnaLynne on Nip/Tuck last year was like watching a Holocaust victim seducing Dr. McNamara. Which if you watch that show, you know that's not actually outside the realm of possibilities. Anyway, I recently saw the following picture, and I realized why I couldn't stop staring at these women's wrists:



Come on. Come on.

Even Tori Spelling looks like she ate something!! And Tori Spelling was a size 4 when this above picture was taken - I looked it up.

The press has noticed, too: Entertainment Weekly asks "Are the skinny starlets of 90210 setting a bad example?" and Flow TV does an excellent analysis in "Familiar Zipcode, New Bodies: A Critical Analysis of the Feminine Body in 90210"

I remember desperately wanting Brenda's bangs, Kelly's earrings, and a moody rich Dylan (I also wanted to live in a hotel like Dylan. Still do, actually).

Young women today can watch and desire eating disorders and a double zero sized pair of $600 jeans.

The CW also shows Tyra Banks America's Next Top Model, which by the way, kicked off a contestant this week, partially because she was too skinny.

Expect that model to have a guest spot coming up at Beverly Hills High.

UPDATED TO ADD: The Fug Girls, they of the most snark fed opinions regarding celebrity fuggery in the whole internets, finally got around to destroying the show as well right here. Please note they include the following picture of Ms. Jessica Stroup.



LOOK AT THOSE ARMS. WHO IS TELLING THIS WOMAN TO BE THIS THIN? She was in Reaper not more than a year ago and I swear to God she was at least 15 pounds heavier, and she looked beautiful and thin. As the Fug Girls say, if the camera adds ten pounds, Jessica may very well be in negative space.

Give Me More, Monkey!

Gov. Sarah Palin

In an election where McCain has repeatedly gone after Obama for being too inexperienced to run the White House, he has chosen a first term governor of a sparsely populated state (47th out of 50) to be his Vice President.

Gov. Sarah Palin is vehemently anti-choice, pro gun, pro oil drilling, pro Iraq War, and a former beauty queen. She believes creationism should be taught in schools. She stresses that she chose to have her fifth child, despite knowing he would be born with Downs Syndrome - the implication, of course, being that a liberal would have aborted that same child. Her only previous service in government was to serve on the City Council and as the Mayor of a town in Alaska that has a population of 9,000.

And even with all of that, McCain is hoping that something in that pathetically thin right wing resume will make other women rise up and vote for her. As if the election is a college dorm room, and all of us girls end up having our periods at the same time. As if any woman who voted for Hillary Clinton did so on the basis of her reproductive system and not her qualifications. As if women are so blind, so stupid, and so hysterical that the mere sight of a woman running as a VP would send us pouring into the streets to proclaim John McCain a hero to women's rights.

This is the most disgusting, pandering, pathetic, condiscending pick for a Vice President I can think of. And in an age where women still do not get equal work for equal pay, where the right to choice is threatened from all sides, where a woman who's been raped can still perceived to have been asking for it, where slut shaming is practically a national sport, where sexual education cannot be taught in every school, where Hillary Clinton can be called a bitch on national television by a journalist and no one seems to care - this is McCain's idea of progress.

I am happy to see that there is a woman on the ballot, and that the Republican Party has finally gone where the Democrats went over twenty years ago. But there is no way in hell that any self respecting woman who loves the Constitution and her country would ever vote for a ticket that has Sarah Palin. No way, no how, no McCain.

Below is a video that underscores how far we have to go - police at the DNC shoving a protester to the ground and telling her to "Back up, bitch." Code Pink, the group that is protesting in the video, is known for peaceful protest. Yet this officer summed up what a lot of people think about women in this country. And the response to the command "back up, bitch", whether literal or metaphorical, should only be what Obama has already said. Enough.

Give Me More, Monkey!