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OK! magazine’s latest cover features a bikini-clad Jennifer Lawrence and Kourtney Kardashian and the promise to reveal their “easy weight-loss secrets.” It’s nearly April, so all women’s media from now through June is obligated to get us “bikini-ready,” obviously. More
“I’m not sure what negative stereotypes it reinforced,” says the woman behind GoDaddy’s most recent Super Bowl commercial. Oh boy …
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Taco Bell courted controversy this Super Bowl season with an ad telling people who bring vegetables to parties that everyone secretly hates them (they’ve since decided to pull it). Bleh. Let’s revisit a simpler fast food advertising era, when Super Bowl commercials didn’t try to shame people into eating Doritos-flavored tacos and instead enticed us with catchy jingles and Carson Daly and dancing burger women. More
Bring on the gender stereotyping, superfluous girls in bikinis and celebrity women doing some heavy petting with salad and Pizza Hut poppers! It’s time to watch Super Bowl ads … More
Peruse the right sidebar of Mail Online on any given day and you’ll find a smorgasbord of fat-shaming, gossip-mongering and oohing or booing over celebrity outfits. But today in particular the Mail’s sidebar grabbed me. First it was Miranda Kerr dolled up in some women’s magazine, then January Jones, then Dakota Fanning. One, two, three, throw in a couple of lesser-known Victoria’s Secret models in European fashion spreads, Olivia Wilde dressed like a cancan dancer on the cover of Vanity Fair and an MSNBC news anchor showing off her baby bump and there it is: The whole absurd portrayal of women in fashion and entertainment media summed up in less than a few hundred megapixels.
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Walking womb Jessica Simpson gushed on Twitter over the weekend about being pregnant again, less than a year after giving birth to her first child, Maxwell. So … why are we supposed to care? And why do we? More
The Devil Wears Faded Glory?!? More
The above cover is pretty disgusting, thought not in the way the National Enquirer intends. So cheers to Canadian junior high school teacher Brandon Field for publicly calling out his local supermarket for carrying the awful tabloid. More
If you ask men, Jennifer Lawrence is the “most desirable” woman, though Emma Stone, Kristen Stewart and First Lady Michelle Obama aren’t bad, either. Why am I telling you this? I don’t know — why is Reuters telling us this? More
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Reading the headlines of web articles about this obesity and depression study is like witnessing a game of “telephone” between narcissists, idiots and sociopaths. Oof. A truly stunning example of how health studies get distorted in the media. More
It’s been funny watching the mainstream media deal with Christina Aguilera not beating herself up for being a bit ‘curvier‘ than your average gal in Hollywood. The undercurrent varies from one of mild astonishment to one of repulsion, but all runs along the lines of ‘she is BIGGER than she once was and yet she’s not performing in a Snuggie!, WTF?’ Of course, most don’t outright criticize Aguilera, because that wouldn’t be fashionably “body positive.” But entertainment bloggers, lifestyle-section reporters et al. are masters of the fat-shaming code. More
This is the most amazingly oblivious thing I’ve seen in a while: Peter Lloyd –Â a male writer skeptical of science saying “size matters“Â – has taken to the Daily Mail opinion pages to warn women we’re next! That’s right, ladies, if folks are gonna dare start suggesting that female pleasure might be affected by physiological reality, then men might just start critiquing women’s bodies. More
Across the board, stock photos are largely weird and quite often sexist. Every so often in searching for a particular type of image, we come across representations of women so weird, so sexist and just so silly that they make us either howl out loud with laughter and/or cry out in disgust (often both at once). There are your pregnant women smoking. Your hourglasses-over-the-uterus fertility photos. There’s the infamous women laughing alone with salads. May we now present you with women drinking various alcoholic beverages. Click through to find out what media types think your favorite drink says about you. More
Crusading against the idea that all women over 30 are old hags has been something of a hobby horse of mine lately. It’s a fight that’s generally met with ‘Amen’s’ from Gen X and Y women and skepticism by similarly-aged men (note to guys: just because you personally don’t subscribe do the idea that it’s all downhill for women’s looks after 23 doesn’t mean we’re not bombarded with that message from myriad directions). Well, lo and behold — as if to perfectly illustrate my point — this Daily Mail article about how women worry about the visible effects of aging “at just 29 YEARS OLD.” Like so many pieces in our favorite tabloid, the writer is ostensibly credulous at this phenomenon while backhandedly exclaiming at how old and ugly 29-year-old women are. More
