If You're Not Angry, You're Not Paying Attention
If you scroll back to the beginning you'll notice that I started this blog as a response to the bullshit photoshopped images of "beauty" that are circulated for the public's consumption. However, after I picked at that thread, the whole thing unravelled and from it came so many other questions and issues that needed to be addressed.
Stand up and join this bitch march if you're sick of seeing already beautiful people massacred and trotted out in an ever-growing beauty pagent, set to a death march that claims millions in eating- disordered deaths, suicides, and self-hatred because no magazine comes with the warning:
"ATTENTION consumers, images may be rendered unrecognizable and thereby do not imply that you should ever attempt to become what you see!"
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Control | Marks Left By Body Magic | Ardyss Body Magic Contol Garment (by zerbetron)
this series of images depicts the affects of various contol garments on the body. Contol garments are marketed to overweight men and women to “reshape” their bodies and aid them in weight loss. By highlighting the affects of these harsh garments on the flesh, I’m hoping to shed light on the body policing and control sold to us as a form of health and beauty.
These marks were left by the Ardyss Body Magic. This garment is marketed men and women to reshape and reform their bodies. Quoted directly from their website:
“With Ardyss Girdles, you can look like you’ve lost 2-3 dress sizes in just a matter of minutes – 10 minutes or less, to be exact. Dubbed by majority of its users as “Body Magic”, Ardyss Girdles are the safe, painless, effortless way to look slimmer right away, and to look good and feel good about yourself in an instant.”
I feel these images adaquately demonstrate just how “safe” and “painless” that process really is.
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Katy Perry’s Rolling Stone Re-Touching (via Sociological Images)
In the latest re-touching leak, before and after shots of Katy Perry’s Rolling Stone cover were counterposed at Elephant this month and sent in by Dmitriy T.M. It’s a nice reminder that even incredibly beautiful, thin women — women who, for all intents and purposes, already conform to contemporary standards of beauty — are also being photoshopped to conform even more closely to an impossible ideal. Notice the slimming of her thigh, plumping of her breasts, smoothing of her skin, and re-making of her right hand.
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Re-Design of the Day: PepsiCo is set to unveil a “taller, sassier new Skinny Can” for its Diet Pepsi brand, which a press release says is meant as a “celebration of beautiful, confident women.”
The can will officially launch at New York’s fashion week this Fall. “Our slim, attractive new can is the perfect complement to today’s most stylish looks,” Pepsi CMO Jill Beraud is quoted as saying.
A Pepsi spokewoman confirmed that the “traditional short and fat” can model will still be available — you know, for consumers who aren’t into the whole sassy celebration of skinny women.
[cnn / image: co.design.]
*facepalm*
Yeah, so um, how does this celebrate beautiful confident women? ‘Cause I don’t see it.
Today, in “Failures in Marketing” we have a beautiful can that is slimmed down to “celebrate beautiful, confident women”…Cuz, ya know, tall and thin are the body types that are routinely bashed in society, and thus much harder to be confident with*. Cuz, ya know, simply relabeling the old cans wouldn’t have done the job better….of course that begs the question of WHY they’re doing this in the first place, but I don’t have the energy to speculate.
*:I’m not saying all tall/thin women are confident, or even should be. I’m saying that, given our glorious socialization, it’s at least somewhat easier for them as opposed to larger women. Just wanted to be clear here.
what uppitylittlehomo said.
OH FOR FUCK SAKES.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbmsdz2N81qzpwi0o1_400.jpg)
Re-Design of the Day: PepsiCo is set to unveil a “taller, sassier new Skinny Can” for its Diet Pepsi brand, which a press release says is meant as a “celebration of beautiful, confident women.”
The can will officially launch at New York’s fashion week this Fall. “Our slim, attractive new can is the perfect complement to today’s most stylish looks,” Pepsi CMO Jill Beraud is quoted as saying.
A Pepsi spokewoman confirmed that the “traditional short and fat” can model will still be available — you know, for consumers who aren’t into the whole sassy celebration of skinny women.
*facepalm*
Yeah, so um, how does this celebrate beautiful confident women? ‘Cause I don’t see it.
Today, in “Failures in Marketing” we have a beautiful can that is slimmed down to “celebrate beautiful, confident women”…Cuz, ya know, tall and thin are the body types that are routinely bashed in society, and thus much harder to be confident with*. Cuz, ya know, simply relabeling the old cans wouldn’t have done the job better….of course that begs the question of WHY they’re doing this in the first place, but I don’t have the energy to speculate.
*:I’m not saying all tall/thin women are confident, or even should be. I’m saying that, given our glorious socialization, it’s at least somewhat easier for them as opposed to larger women. Just wanted to be clear here.
what uppitylittlehomo said.
OH FOR FUCK SAKES.
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I love it when beautiful women of all shapes are featured on magazine covers.
Tara Lynn be more perfect always
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I collect sexist magazine ads out of the free magazines on campus
This is a PETA ad compared to a Strip club ad…
The woman in the PETA ad shows more skin than the woman in the strip club ad.
Inspiring you to cut the shit out of your face!
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