Fatspo vs. Thinspo?

So I was browsing Tumblr recently - as I do... a lot - and I came across this picture.

This picture, as you can see, says "Fuck your Thinspo". For those of you who don't know what thinspo, it's short for "thinspiration" - i.e. a group of people on Tumblr (or the whole internet, but let's just say Tumblr) who approve of being thin/skinny, and post/reblog pictures of very tiny ladies on their blogs. I'll give you an example. If I search "thinspo", the first picture that comes up with the tag is the following:

As you can see, she's tiny. 

Another equivalent to thinspiration is "pro-ana". I.e. people in favour of eating tiny tiny amounts of food, and/or exercising crazy amounts, to maintain a figure like the above. So they are, in essence, promoting eating disorders, like anorexia and bulimia. The number of these blogs is absolutely crazy. 

However, on the other hand... you got fatspo, or fatspiration. This is the same concept, but instead of promoting thinness, it's promoting fatness, and even obesity. I couldn't find many blogs under "fatspo", however, I did find a couple of blogs where very big women submit pictures of themselves, erm, naked. Now, whatever, they do what they like, but what disturbed me was that at the top of the blog it said "if you're not fat, get out". 

There is obviously "rivalry" between the two sides, as shown by the top photo. But why is it healthier to promote junk food, than to promote thinness? Both are as bad as each other. I find the top photo completely disturbing. It's pretty scary the severity of both extremes. 

Luckily, however, there is an intermediate. Fitspiration, or fitspo. A movement on tumblr which promotes HEALTHY living - eating clean but enough to be healthy, and exercising. Posts which help motivate people, like myself, to live a healthy life and feel good about themselves.

In the battle of the "spos", fitspo wins, hands down.

Film Review: Abduction (Taylor Lautner)

Just finished watching Taylor Lautner’s solo debut “Abduction”, and can safely say: not impressed.

There are several scenes which made me go WTF?! For starters, when the Serbian black ops guy hacks into Nathan’s webcam, the little light next to the webcam clearly turns on. Wouldn't you notice if you were staring at the screen that your f***ing webcam was suddenly on? I guess maybe Taylor was too busy staring at his own reflection on his screen. Can’t blame him.

At one point Nathan’s love interest, Karen (who by the way is rocking two massive caterpillars on her forehead for eyebrows - Scouse brow much?) has duct-tape over her mouth and is firmly tied with her arms above her head to a metal pole on a table or something, aboard a long-distance train headed towards  Nebraska. She knocks a glass onto the floor by squirming around like a little bitch, and the glass smashes. She then is seen struggling to get the glass even though both her hands are tied – so it’s basically physically impossible for her to reach the glass and cut herself free. Even if she did reach it with her feet, could she really pick it up and bend her legs to such an extent as to cut the rope? You’d think not. But the scene flicks and then miraculously she turns up in the next room to meet her beau, free as a bird. What a talent! Must be the modern Houdini. And as usual, the pretty girl gets threatened to be shot or have her fingers cut off by the evil Serbian, but nooooo that never happens! She escapes without the slightest bruise or scratch, even after being punched in the face by a 250 pound Serbian gangster. Seems legit. 

That’s not the only time Karen pisses me off. In one scene, when they’re on the flee from the CIA and the evil Russians, she decides to pick up the phone and call her uncle. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?! Does she not know what phone tapping is? Does she not remember they're being hunted? My god.

The CIA agents are no better. When they eventually find the runaways, Nathan and Karen, along the road, instead of taking them some place undercover, like an abandoned warehouse or some shit, they take them to a diner, and sit them down RIGHT by the f***ing window, which is bloody huge and you can see in to it from a mile away. So no doubt the baddies find them easily and shoot all their agents dead. Then as Nathan is driving away from the scene in the car, the main CIA dude aims the gun at Nathan’s car. Wait what?! I thought you wanted him alive, you moron!

Taylor’s acting is not great either. When he wakes up “crying” you can tell he's had fake tears dropped into his eyes to do the job for him. Nobody has that much liquid flowing from their eyes unless they have conjunctivitis. He’s good in the fighting scenes, sure, and kudos for being able to do all that ninja fly-kicking shit, but for anything which requires emotions? Nah. Sorry. Take my advice Taylor, you are filthy rich and need never work again. So now Twilight's over, just quit and save yourself the embarrassment. 

Rating: 3/10 

(the fight scenes were mildly entertaining, as were Lautner's biceps)

I highly recommend you do not waste your time with this film. Unless, like me, you're stuck in bed with the flu and have nothing better to do with your life. 

(Fun fact: Lautner actually won an award for "Worst Actor" for this film. So it's not just my fluish delirium that is causing me to be bitter).