cassidyrose | Bitch! (Reply)

After weeks of anxious waiting, the latest issue of Bitch Magazine finally arrived in my mailbox last week. Yippee!!! It is full of bitchly goodness. I have already read about 2/3 of the issue (I am trying to slowly savor it) and am so far most impressed by the article about "fat-suits", what the author terms "Hollywood's new blackface". I really like how the issue of skinny actors putting on fat-suits for laughs is deconstucted and analyzed by the author. I am also rather taken by the article about TLC's "The Wedding Show" and "The Baby Show" (I may have the names wrong, but you get the picture). The author takes issue with the shows' obvious mandate of compulsory heterosexuality, as well as the shows' bent towards profiling white, middle-upper class, conservative couples. Also, the author points out the bizarre fantasy that these shows perpetuate about marriage and having children.

Just thought I'd share my happiness that Bitch exists in all its wonderfulness.