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I sat down to watch Fox's new reality series More to Love Order diflucan online cheap, last night because, as a feminist and cultural critic, I felt like it was my solemn duty to do so. After 60 agonizing minutes, Ordering diflucan no rx, I can tell you that I won't be doing that again.

Writer and fat activist Kate Harding had some interesting things to say about whether this kind of representation of plus-size women on TV is progress (and then had some even more nuanced things to say about it at her blog). I also read Marianne Kirby's condemnation of the show here at the Daily Beast, buy diflucan cheap. But really, Buy diflucan online, I didn't think either of them went far enough in their critique.

More to Love is just as repulsive as The Bachelor, and for many of the same reasons, order diflucan online cheap. There are a boatload of women gasping about how cute the guy is; there are rivers of tears; there are several proclamations of, "This is a guy I think I could fall in love with, pharmacy diflucan," even after spending approximately 30 seconds with him under the glare of cameras and lights. Diflucan online kaufen, Both shows share that heady mix of despair ("I just want someone to love me!") and desperation (the "look at me. Look at me!" antics). And there is similar casting: most women are white (on More to Love, Colorado CO Colo. , there are no token black women, Buy diflucan overnight delivery, which struck me as odd, but there were a small handful of women who appeared to possibly be Latina), most are in their 20s (with one or two in their 30s, diflucan discount, only to get booted off in short order), Ohio OH , and there are a range of heights and hair colour. Order diflucan online cheap, So, really, in many respects the shows are exactly the same. Except More to Love, I'm sorry to say, cheap diflucan pills, is a freak show. Buy diflucan without prescription, The mere fact that the premise is "lookit the fatties get with the fatty!" is what brings it to the doorstep of freak show; the execution, though, shoves it firmly into the freak show house of horror, acquistare online diflucan. First of all, District of Columbia DC D.C. , when each woman is introduced to the audience through interview clips, her stats are also shown. Yes, ordering diflucan overnight delivery, age, Idaho ID , height, weight are all there--though perhaps I should be grateful they stopped just short of BMI or waist-to-hip ratio?). And is not objectifying because..., order diflucan online cheap.

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Okay, I could go on, but I'll stop myself. Order diflucan online cheap, The final thing I want to say is that the dude in question, Luke Conley, strikes me as a bit of an ass. It wasn't his double-entendres that bothered me (what does he like to eat. Anything "thick and juicy"). It was his totally tacky methods for getting the women to hug and kiss him that I thought was revolting. "How do you say 'kiss' in Spanish?" he asked one woman. "Beso." She said, order diflucan online cheap. "Can you share one with me?" he asked. "Um..." was her reply. Then an edit. Then cut to them kissing--while he was flanked on the other side with another woman. BAAARF.

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by Veronica on June 24, 2009

in Girls

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by Sabine on April 27, 2009 · 1 comment

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