a look at how multi billion dollar industries (cosmetics, dieting, cosmetic surgery, pornography, mass media) set impossible beauty standards and reap large profits by making women feel insecure about their appearance.
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Sexism Watch : Wimbledon
“It actually seems like the situation is getting worse, with women players struggling to get a mention if they don’t conform to some picture editor’s exacting arse standards. Never mind the talent round, here’s the swimsuit contest.”
by Marina Hyde, The Guardian (UK), “A trouser-rubbing timewarp that needs no new balls.”
Amy, the artist formerly known as buxom
“She burst on the music scene three years ago lampooning the image-obsessed world of celebrity.
But after taking up an alarming fitness regime, Amy Winehouse has dropped four dress sizes and there are fears that the 22-year-old has succumbed to the pressures of showbusiness.”
The Beauty Myth: Men’s Edition.
Welcome to the club.
Sexism Watch: International Herald Tribune's Sexist Undertones
The original article:
A daughter of France’s ‘lost territories’ fights for them
By Steven Erlanger
Sunday, June 15, 2008
[…] Sarkozy, who as interior minister three years ago called the rioters “rabble” and “scum,” has put three women from immigrant backgrounds into his government, including the state secretary for human rights in the Foreign Office, Rama Yade, 31, and the justice minister, Rachida Dati, 42. Amara, a practicing Muslim who rarely bothers with makeup, never went to college and never married, retains the strong accent of an Arab immigrant and sometimes uses slang.
The letter to the editor:
A minister’s makeup
Regarding the article “Muslim minister tackles French suburbs” (June 14-15): In describing Fadela Amara, the French secretary for urban policy, why does the author find it necessary to mention two times the fact that she does not wear makeup? Who cares?
Jennifer Dell-Ernström, Budapest
currently reading…
“Sexism Sells - But We’re Not Buying It”
from the Women’s Media Center
Girls Inc. PSA
