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Images of Women in the Media: The Scary Power of Photoshop

Fri, 02/18/2011 - 14:27
Submitted by LilithLand

As Copyranter points out, the following commercial for a photo retouching agency is very sexist and makes fun of those of us who are dentally challenged with a little more junk in our trunk i.e., the average American. However, the ad does make a positive point regarding the awesome power of Photoshop.

The mass media constantly surrounds us with digitally altered images of women that are flawless to the extreme. And we eat them up. It ain't real folks. It's time we stopped buying into this bullshit.

Butch Fatale

Sun, 02/22/2009 - 19:41
Submitted by Betty Dodson

As a heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, butch-dyke, feminist, Daphne Merkin's article on Rachel Maddow and the rise of lesbian chic knocked me out.  It's about time we make room for every type of woman not just those that have been blessed with the genetics that cater to the limited ideal of beauty in our culture:

"In the ongoing dance of the sexes, women who remain partnerless are referred to as ‘‘wallflowers'' while unpartnered men are simply that - not yet taken. The former become invisible; the latter become ever more conspicuously valuable. In the sense that lesbianism might be said to mirror the condition of straight women raised to an exponential power of God knows what, their minor status in gay culture reflects the secondary status of straight women in the culture at large. For in truth, until fairly recently, lesbians have been the wallflowers at the homosexual dance, waiting to get their share of recognition"