New York Times Runs Plus-sized Pic of 'Big Girl' Christina Hendricks

Oh, Grey Lady -- when will you take the spoon out of the back of your throat? Once again, the New York Times has demonstrated a fear of fatties, doing no great service to its legacy of elitism and making the rest of America think that New Yorkers are shallow, weight-obsessed socialists. The paper has raised several eyebrows over the past year due to its weightist snark, and it's apparently not getting the message that much of reading America is not so trim... or amused. This week, the Times quoted a stylist who called buxom 'Mad Men' actress Christina Hendricks a "big girl," and, alongside the piece, published a rather distorted photo.

The Times has since run a correction, claiming that the photo "was slightly distorted inadvertently due to an error during routine processing." Well, as we at Switched have much experience with such routine processing, we can tell you that the Times' photo editor must either be blind or hankering for a pink slip. It's really not that difficult.

But the main issue here is the Times' fear of the even slightly overweight, mostly evident in articles written by women. Whatever happened to third-wave feminism, ladies? While Hendricks's photo appeared in an article by Cathy Horyn, an article by Andy Port (also female) published earlier that day claimed that Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, and Kate Hudson have all "put on a little weight."

The weight obsession goes further back. In August, Cintra Wilson wrote about JCPenney's new Manhattan location and made more than one dig at the retailer's customer base. ("No matter how many Grand Slam breakfasts you've knocked out of the park, Penney's has a size for you.") In a more recent profile of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham in the New York Times Magazine, Jon Mooalem tossed a fat criticism at the unfunny comedian's fans. ("[The] crowd at the Prairie Capital was almost entirely white, but other than that, I was hard pressed to find a phrase to describe even a majority. Maybe 'not thin'.")

While this faithful Switched writer has an appreciation for both Kate-Moss-on-an-especially-cokey-day thinness and more natural curves, unjust image "processing" of the gorgeous Christina Hendricks is where we draw the line. We're going to find another paper. [From: Gothamist]

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