Feminist icon Germaine Greer has lent her support to Beth Ditto after the singer posed naked on the cover of UK music rag 'NME'.
Ditto, lead singer of US trio The Gossip, has of late become more renowned for challenging the discourse of body image than her music. She was recently hailed by 'NME' as the "coolest woman on the planet".Whilst medical professionals may argue that Ditto is overweight to the point of being unhealthy, she is nevertheless becoming a pin-up girl for the anti-skinny movement. She also recently blamed gay fashion designers for condoning size zero models, and for "wanting women as dolls".
Greer, whose 1970 polemic 'The Female Eunuch' became a landmark tome in the canon of feminist texts, wrote in 'The Guardian' newspaper, "Ditto knows she can knock 'em dead because hers is the kind of body that is supposed to be kept hidden. Her motives are pretty much the same as mine when, nearly 40 years ago, I got a friend to photograph me stripped to the buff, looking at the lens through my thighs."
Greer continued, "Her intention is to force acceptance of her body type, 5ft tall and 15 stone, and by this strategy to challenge the conventional imagery of women."
