If You're Not Angry, You're Not Paying Attention

This is a blog about the ever-elusive idea of beauty that has fascinated me since I was old enough to be aware of the expectations placed on my body.

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!"

You can always also follow my main tumblr: miss world
November 21
Not Even Iman Is Safe From Photoshop (link)

circusfolk:

For reasons I cannot fathom, Western society has this obsession with whittling women down to nothing in photos, women who are “ideal” looking without any help from retouching. Photoshopping Iman is insanity. Have you all ever seen Iman? The woman is an Amazon. She’s skyscraper tall with legs like a tarantula. She’s also extremely slim (unless you count the fact that she has boobs as “fat”) and did I mean leggy already? Why they felt the need to photoshop her is beyond me. Western society’s obsession with aesthetic perfection has gone way, way too far. This photoshopping of Iman just goes to show that no one will ever be happy, even when women do fit that societal mold of “beauty.”