How Big Can a Size 2 Butt Be, Anyway?

It is extremely rare for me to agree with anything at Pandagon, but it must be a Halley's Comet kind of event for me to agree with something from Pandagon and Feministe. As painful (and it is, it is!) as it is to agree with them, I do agree with them regarding the Jennifer Love Hewitt has a big butt controversy.

For those of you who missed it, TMZ ran a rather unflattering photo of the size 2 Ghost Whisperer star and, anonymous commenters being who they are, the commenters went nuts. To her credit, Hewitt's response included all women, since all women are judged to some degree on their looks, regardless of age, orientation, or marriagability.

Indeed, it doesn't matter whether commenters are liberal or conservative, women are subjected to this scrutiny (as I found out when I commented on Iowa Liberal's blog about insurance and the discussion became "how overweight are you?"). No, women, in general, are subjected to this and it comes up regularly for discussion.

This isn't to whine about that occurrence or even suggest, as the feminists do, that Teh Patriarchy is keeping 'em down again. It's more to marvel that size 2 is, evidently still fat. At what point are we not fat?