“I’m not a misogynist, I am actually the exact opposite. I just do not like large women in fashion. Its disgusting.”

So, I was browsing a favorite blog of mine (it is a Sociological blog, being that I am a soc major) and I came across this article about Vogue and how, after putting Beyonce on the cover, it proceeded to take on the title that you would have guessed; that real women have curves, and because beyonce obviously is a black woman, she automatically will have a curvier body than a white woman (the women one would usually see on the cover of Vogue).  So a small debate develops over whether or not this actually was racist.  Suddenly, near the bottom of the page, I see a member by the name of Gio post this:

"Well, Beyoncé should be thinner, There is no possible way to find good fashion for people bigger than size 6, and I cant even imagine why someone would need to “conquer their diet demons” they should just NOT eat fatty food, and not be huge. There is no such thing as being fat because of genetics, a woman should be thin and waif like Gisele Bundchen or Adriana Lima….etc." (you can find these rest of the comments here)

As you can imagine, I am infuriated and although I do not think I handled my comments very well to begin with, this (excuse my language) ASSHOLE proceeded to attempt to defend his position on how "large women are not worthy enough to grace the pages of Vogue" and how Beyonce was too fat to be on the cover.

I just don’t know what to do…I have all this built up aggression from the past week because of this asshole, and it really does make me depressed to see that there are people like him in the world…and worse.

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