I think she beautiful! She is curvy thats what so appealing in my opinion. I think any women at any size is going to be appealing as long as they are curvy even if its just a little.

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Why would they stretch out the picture like that?? Even the guy in the back looks warped.

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The media??!? Falsehoods?!? Never.. it doesn't surprise me one bit that they do everything they can for controversy.

I love her! She wonderful and beautiful and SO NOT Big...but this dress isn't one of her best.

I don't agree at all. If you think a rational calm discussion is going to effect any change in fashion industry or in the cattiness of writers who can't respect different body types then I have a feminist paying her nanny a slave wage I'd like to sell you. The feminists who pay their fellow women low wages to clean their homes and raise their kids, the fashion editors who pay lip service to real size woman and then run ads and models who are emaciated need to be hit with the truth , verbally as much as possible. It SHOULD be an attack. They have not listened and they have not changed. The "safe place to explore this" Oprahisms don't cut it in the real world. It was not hyperbole to mention the KKK btw, believe me (live in rural redneck California for awhile) it all comes the same, megalomaniac and self indulgent place. I have always thwarted it head on and continue to proudly.

Unfortunately, the image is not the only thing distorted here. Say what you want about weight; but to say that the NYT article, however mean and wrong it may be, was an attack against women and not just against Kate Hudson, Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston, is itself a distortion caused by the very same irrational and unfair prejudices of Misses Port and Horyn. These two women are no more attacking all women than Jen Carlson's attack of Port and Horyn is an attack against all women or even all thin women. This kind of screed is far too commonly employed without reservation by the "enlightened" who ditch honesty and fairness for the more dramatic and quick effects of hyperbole. We just saw this in Massachussetts when Martha Coakley painted Brown as the enemy of women.

When someone's position is so obviously wrong, it doesn't need to be exaggerated. It does not make a wrong more obviously wrong. It does however lessen the credibility of the critic. It makes one wonder whether the moral observer arrived at the right position rationally and fairly, or whether rationality and fairness had nothing to do with it and it was just pure luck that the observer got it right this time and that next time the observer might get it wrong. One cannot feel too safe in the unreliability of luck.

But that's precisely my point. The "long honoured media tradition of critizing women who are trim with big boobs and hips", of critizing some women but not Sophia Loren, as you yourself pointed out, hardly qualifies as an attack against women. An attack on some women, by definition, is not an attack against all women. Ms. Carlson's failure (or perhaps willful disregard) of this distinction in order to make a point, does not really advance the conversation on weight.

Horyn and Port obviously have unreasonably cruel standards of beauty and seem unreasonable and cruel themselves. Carlson should have the upper hand in the debate without wrapping her arguments in such ridiculous hyperbole. By her own measure, she's attacking women by attacking silly women like Horyn and Port, unless of course one disagrees with the implication that women are silly. So unless one thinks that women are fat, Horyn and Port, while terribly wrong, do not deserve Carlson's accusation of genocide. It's just silly. Carlson herself was distorting her own story about the NYT distortion, of all things. Let's not pretend it isn't obvious that she's appealing emotionally to make her point. There's a lot to be said about society's obsession with weight but a lie no matter how effective emotionally, is just not a valid argument.

You have to fight back and attack. To NOT attack Montag, Horn, Hilton and Wintour while fighting media stereotyping of woman is like attacking whites supremacy but having pity for the KKK and giving them a free pass.

Everything you said is a powerful exposition of our culture's obsession with weight but it's a response for a different conversation we haven't had yet. You still fail to addresses the point that Carlson, in addressing the NYT distortion, is herself distorting the NYT - unless you just neglegted to add that misrepresenting opponents is justified in figthing them. Carlson's use of the genocide-connoting phrase "attack against women" has the very precise intention of sending warning sinals to her readers. The message is: "Stop thinking and let's attack back", very much like you equating my arguments to giving the "KKK" a free pass (so not cool by the way) which may explain your sympathies with Carlson's methods.

I focused on Carlson because I believe that the process we use to arrive at our positions is just as important, if not more important than our positions themselves. A fair and honest process is what gives us confidence that we will be evaluated fairly even as evidence and circumstances change. Here, Horyn and Port and Carlson, despite arriving at different positions all lack the discipline to view the issue rationally and honestly.

@Cheska: Hi, I should have been clearer. Horn would never have said that about Sophia Loren TODAY she would have said that about her during the height of her fame; Horn does not understand that body type. Since the late 90's, countless articles reflecting on the ever shrinking Rachel Zoe silhouette have stated that "Loren, monroe etc " would never get the job today. All the hourglass bombshells were very trim and quite fit!

My point is it's a sick mind f*** to society which holds women against the very thin pubescent standards in magazines.Sadly the word "curvy", is now a euphemism used to describe everyone from tall breast less models with not real discernible hip to waist ratio and plus size women who are very overweight to obese. There seems to be absolutely no willingness on the part of the a fashion industry to allow TRIM, healthy woman, at proportional weights, like Hendricks to exist in print without automatically assigning them to the "outsize" category. A category that hardly applies to Hendricks. Her chest is not out of proportion to the rest of her figure she just looks radiantly healthy and comfortable.

We can't have a discussion until the press stops the big subliminal messages of "let's not to make thin women who mostly helm fashion mags feel bad about not having buxom hourglass figures which 99% of their men (gay or straight) would through them under the bus for" and "don't ever get comfortable with who you are, keep spending money..."

How many times have fashion magazines merrily proclaimed they want to end the photoshoped skinny obsession and then a month later go back to using skeletal coke hags in padded rompers.

Very thin, uni-torsoed models and celebs can, only with photo shop, padding and doctored bogus measurements issued by PR firms, approximate that type of physical symmetry that an hourglass figure has.

Many fashionistas who write about voluptuous woman are extremely thin which has to stop. Buxom trim women can't take ANY MORE hits in the media until the press stops lying about what we look like. The dithering effect on women's self esteem may not amount to genocide but it is hugely damaging and, I feel, very, very serious.

(and *DOING* it with class I might add)

I would agree with you if we were talking about politics but this is about the long honoured media tradition of criticizing women who are trim with big boobs and hips who are making a name for themselves in entertainment (and doping it with class I might add). Horn would never have said that about Sophia Loren, though Sophia Loren was in actuality as full figured as CH at various points in her career. It is annoying to see women who are healthy simply bashed, even if you perceive it as simply a mild slight it affects the entire picture. Skin and bones Miranda Kerr with her retouched little boys behind and reed thin breastless torso, was called "Curvy" in The UK Sun this very day. Buxom trim woman can't take ANY hits in the media until the media stops making molehills into mountains.

Note that these woman-bashing, body-shape-obsessed, misogynistic articles were *written by women*. Men don't go on and on about "she's fat" the way other *women* do.

wow doesn't the NYTimes have standards anymore? It is really slipping by calling this actress "big"...

the old NYTimes would have used "corpulent" or perhaps "rubenesque."

I'm willing to believe this was an accident. I mean, it's quite possible that it wasn't, and I would hope that professional layout software wouldn't make it easy to make such mistakes, so don't get me wrong. But I know that when I've tried to crop and resize photos with my amateur software, sometimes I've failed to keep the aspect ratios right and had to go back and redo. If I were in a hurry I might miss my error. I think an apology is appropriate but I wouldn't sweat it much more than that.

Oh, and I agree, she's hot either way.

Women, unfortunately, are often the perpetrators of such blatant sexism... thinking that the only way to succeed in life is to be the center of men's attentions, they sit around and act jealous and stupid, not realizing that they are creating an oppressive standard of beauty for themselves and every other woman too. Ms. Hendricks looks amazing in her dress - I think she looks better than anyone I've seen on a runway in a long time. I think its ridiculous that the new standard of beauty is for women to starve themselves down until they look like men and then bitch about other women who still look like women. Ridiculous.

You are being very hypocritical here. You speak against other womens high beauty standards and their judgmental attitudes, but then you judge skinny women and say they look like men. Did it occur to you that there are women who are naturally thin? Judging someone for being thin is just as bad as judging someone for being fat. I'm naturally thin and I'm tired of hearing people say that "real women have curves" and that thin women "look like 13 year old boys." What do you think it's like to hear that i'm not a "real woman" because I was born thin?