About

Michelle Taylor is the manager of Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. This blog highlights the various productions coming out of the people involved in this Oregon corporation. The emphasis is on booties, butts, asses, backsides, tushes, keesters, rears, cheeks, buttocks, tails, and buns not out of some weird butt fetish but as a first salvo in the war against media irresponsibility in holding up skinny, anorexic-looking women and girls as body role models for women and girls in our society to emulate and imitate.

Michelle and Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. believe that the media’s flesh-is-evil fad, that purports to get universal adoption of bony little females as the only acceptable body type, is misguided and evil, coming as it does from the distorted profit motives of the clothing industry, the dieting industry which includes diet drinks and diet pills and dieting specialists, the exercise equipment industry, and the sellers of books or videos about any or all of the above.

Unless women fight back against this oppressive skinniness fad which is killing a thousand or more women and girls yearly, and psychologically harming tens of millions, these industries will continue indefinitely to harm self-esteem, and to exploit women and girls both economically and psychologically, but, even more, physically.

If thousands of companies follow our example and utilize bootilicious ladies rather than skinny ones as their body role models, perhaps American culture may finally begin making a dent in this unnecessary media oppression. Please join us in our sincere efforts to address this issue! Do not buy products that push this boniness fad, or products that use such models as body role models, and do not go to movies starring some poor bony lady who was forced to starve herself to get skinny enough for the role. Complain to clothing companies that use skinny ladies as models, and complain to any company that uses a skinny model in its ads. Buy lots of videos or movies that use role models that are NOT skinny. Our comedies and exercise videos make a big point of BOOTY because we are using this as a symbol of a good body role model. J.Lo was a good body role model, as are our Fanny and Tassy and the “Assets” in our Fanny and the Assets exercise DVDs. But even a normal female body that’s average, and neither too skinny nor too fat, is an okay body role model, since it doesn’t influence women and especially vulnerable younger girls to run out and buy lots of dieting products and to quit eating.

Please join our cause!