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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!"

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February 8
feministjenn: uppitylittlehomo: feministslut: molix: thedailywhat: 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.

feministjenn:

uppitylittlehomo:

feministslut:

molix:

thedailywhat:

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.

(Source: thedailywhat)