Comments on: A Quick Note on Misogynistic Body Standards http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blog Review: The Curvature « Pathological Narcissist http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-14265 Blog Review: The Curvature « Pathological Narcissist Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:46:57 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-14265 [...] posts from The Curvature: What Does It Take? Cis Supremacy: Feminism and Women’s Shelters A Quite Note on Misogynistic Beauty Standards Posted by pathologicalnarcissist Filed in Blog Reviews Leave a Comment [...] [...] posts from The Curvature: What Does It Take? Cis Supremacy: Feminism and Women’s Shelters A Quite Note on Misogynistic Beauty Standards Posted by pathologicalnarcissist Filed in Blog Reviews Leave a Comment [...]

]]> By: wiggles http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12497 wiggles Mon, 25 May 2009 22:48:20 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12497 Wow, Kat, seriously? Laxatives? Seriously??? Walmart! Your one-stop center for bulimia supplies! Dehydration! Electrolyte imbalance! Spastic colon! Crap in your pants! Get it all here! I don't watch TV much anymore and I don't think we have Walmarts around here, so I've been spared I guess. But that's really irresponsible. Reminds me of those 1950s Lucky Strikes ads that encouraged pregnant women to smoke cigarettes to keep their weight down. Wow, Kat, seriously? Laxatives? Seriously???

Walmart! Your one-stop center for bulimia supplies! Dehydration! Electrolyte imbalance! Spastic colon! Crap in your pants! Get it all here!

I don’t watch TV much anymore and I don’t think we have Walmarts around here, so I’ve been spared I guess. But that’s really irresponsible. Reminds me of those 1950s Lucky Strikes ads that encouraged pregnant women to smoke cigarettes to keep their weight down.

]]> By: Rachael http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12493 Rachael Sun, 24 May 2009 23:22:24 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12493 I hate the whole breast standard--they have to be big, but they can't be saggy, the nipples have to be cute and pink, the areolae can't be too big, and they have to be natural. I get pissed off at the whole "natural" thing because it's just more entitlement bullshit. It's never out of concern for the woman's well-being that men rag on breast implants. No, it's that they don't "look" as good, or that they don't "feel" as good, or that "Dammit, I deserve a woman with naturally perfect breasts!" And why do they think most women get breast implants, anyway? It's because they're constantly being told (either directly or through ads and beauty standards) that theirs aren't big enough, or "perky" enough, or symmetrical enough, or whatever. Kind of went off on a rant there. This just pisses me off so much. I hate the whole breast standard–they have to be big, but they can’t be saggy, the nipples have to be cute and pink, the areolae can’t be too big, and they have to be natural.

I get pissed off at the whole “natural” thing because it’s just more entitlement bullshit. It’s never out of concern for the woman’s well-being that men rag on breast implants. No, it’s that they don’t “look” as good, or that they don’t “feel” as good, or that “Dammit, I deserve a woman with naturally perfect breasts!” And why do they think most women get breast implants, anyway? It’s because they’re constantly being told (either directly or through ads and beauty standards) that theirs aren’t big enough, or “perky” enough, or symmetrical enough, or whatever.

Kind of went off on a rant there. This just pisses me off so much.

]]> By: Kristen http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12481 Kristen Thu, 21 May 2009 04:50:58 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12481 I'm shocked...SHOCKED...that a magazine that makes a living alternately idolizing and destroying celebrities would engage in sexist behavior. I mean its not as if the cult of celebrity is about projecting our unrealistic and sometimes contradictory societal expectations on an actual, living, breathing human. Next you'll tell me that they shame women for not taking "appropriate" care of their children and having an unfaithful husband. /snark I’m shocked…SHOCKED…that a magazine that makes a living alternately idolizing and destroying celebrities would engage in sexist behavior. I mean its not as if the cult of celebrity is about projecting our unrealistic and sometimes contradictory societal expectations on an actual, living, breathing human.

Next you’ll tell me that they shame women for not taking “appropriate” care of their children and having an unfaithful husband.

/snark

]]> By: Jenn http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12480 Jenn Thu, 21 May 2009 04:32:44 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12480 Two seconds ago Kim's ass was too lumpy. Now she's curvy. Oh, the cognitive dissonance. I second Kat on that repulsive Walmart commercial. I hate how summer and bathing suits are both used to demonize every single woman who isn't perfectly airbrushed and faked tanned into CGI-perfection. No wonder I got panic attacks from the idea of swimming, and still do. Thanks society, for turning an activity I would otherwise love into a body-hating fest of depression. Two seconds ago Kim’s ass was too lumpy. Now she’s curvy. Oh, the cognitive dissonance. I second Kat on that repulsive Walmart commercial. I hate how summer and bathing suits are both used to demonize every single woman who isn’t perfectly airbrushed and faked tanned into CGI-perfection. No wonder I got panic attacks from the idea of swimming, and still do. Thanks society, for turning an activity I would otherwise love into a body-hating fest of depression.

]]> By: Marissa http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12479 Marissa Wed, 20 May 2009 23:50:16 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12479 Honestly they all looked the same to me. Yay for popular culture further encouraging open season on women's bodies... :( Honestly they all looked the same to me. Yay for popular culture further encouraging open season on women’s bodies…

:(

]]> By: depresso http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12477 depresso Wed, 20 May 2009 19:40:05 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12477 Rawr! Some women's breasts are naturally 'saggy'! Mine have had a distinct downward bias since they started growing! I clearly remember being 18 and wishing they were more pert. It still bothers me now, though far less so, but why should I care? My husband loves me anyway, I have no lumps or bumps in them and they are how they should be. And I have a mole next to one nipple, so I can say that they have chatacter! Rawr! Some women’s breasts are naturally ‘saggy’! Mine have had a distinct downward bias since they started growing! I clearly remember being 18 and wishing they were more pert. It still bothers me now, though far less so, but why should I care? My husband loves me anyway, I have no lumps or bumps in them and they are how they should be. And I have a mole next to one nipple, so I can say that they have chatacter!

]]> By: Ashley http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12473 Ashley Wed, 20 May 2009 16:23:38 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12473 I noticed the exact same thing when I saw this on the newsstand... Uma Thurman is a mother, and that's how your boobs look if you're a mother, or if you've got big breasts, or if you're over 35 or so. That's just how women look, unless they don't have breasts, or have implants. We're really at a crazy level of cognitive dissonance/misogyny when the culture starts saying that something that is essentially <i>universal</i> when it comes to women's appearance is unacceptable and worthy of contempt. I noticed the exact same thing when I saw this on the newsstand… Uma Thurman is a mother, and that’s how your boobs look if you’re a mother, or if you’ve got big breasts, or if you’re over 35 or so. That’s just how women look, unless they don’t have breasts, or have implants.

We’re really at a crazy level of cognitive dissonance/misogyny when the culture starts saying that something that is essentially universal when it comes to women’s appearance is unacceptable and worthy of contempt.

]]> By: supersoygrrrl http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12468 supersoygrrrl Wed, 20 May 2009 06:17:23 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12468 great post! i love the last line. great post!

i love the last line.

]]> By: Kat http://thecurvature.com/2009/05/19/a-quick-note-on-misogynistic-body-standards/#comment-12466 Kat Wed, 20 May 2009 03:22:03 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=5326#comment-12466 I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that the only men shown were in the "best" category.... Have you seen the recent Walmart ad on TV about great savings for summer? It portrays a woman who looks at the bikini in her underwear drawer. Then it shows the "great prices" on diet food and laxatives. seriously. seriously repulsive. I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that the only men shown were in the “best” category….

Have you seen the recent Walmart ad on TV about great savings for summer? It portrays a woman who looks at the bikini in her underwear drawer. Then it shows the “great prices” on diet food and laxatives.

seriously.

seriously repulsive.

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