beauty myths

Target Women: Botox

by Cara June 27, 2008

Personally, I think that Sarah just keeps getting better. The “parentheses” bit just about had me rolling on the floor. Thanks for sending it along, Kai!

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Target Women: Wedding Shows

by Cara June 2, 2008

A few weeks ago, I posted this Target Women video, a spoof news show segment about the way that yogurt is marketed. I was hoping that they’d do more, particularly because I thought the woman doing the segment, Sarah Haskins, was really funny. The folks at Current TV noticed and sent me the latest clip [...]

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When you’re this big of an asshole, wishful thinking is your best bet

by Cara April 12, 2008

If you read or receive updates from Media Matters, or are masochistic enough to do your own right-wing media watch, you’ll have probably heard of Marc Rudov. He’s a frequent guess on The O’Reilly Factor, apparently has his own radio show now, and has made his pathetic career off of telling the world what exactly [...]

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Feminists Judge Beauty Differently

by Cara March 25, 2008

When I saw the headline Feminists More Open-Minded on Weight, I expected an article on the fat-acceptance movement (which the Times had reported on fairly recently). But no, this time, feminist open-mindedness on weight has apparently been proven! I’ll say up front that I did not pay $30 to read the study in full, but [...]

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Offensive Remark of the Week: Glenn Beck Thinks He Can Call Other People Ugly Edition

by Cara February 16, 2008

If you’ve ever heard conservative TV and radio host Glenn Beck’s name, you undoubtedly know that he’s an asshole. Simple enough, no big shocks there. He’s also dumb as a bag of rocks. The other night, I was out for pizza, the restaurant TV was unfortunately tuned to CNN, and Beck was talking about the [...]

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Your Daily Dose of Hate

by Cara November 16, 2007

[cross-posted from Feministe] Here’s a beautiful example of male college students who think that being offensive is the same thing as being funny: The Sentinal “humor” piece “Mock of Love.” It’s a set of “spoof” suggestions for the second season of the VH1 Bret Michaels dating show Rock of Love. The irony is that if [...]

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“Overweight” still doesn’t mean “unhealthy,” and related fantasies

by Cara November 12, 2007

A new study has just been released that shows, yet again, that those who fall into the “overweight” category on the BMI scale are actually the healthiest. Or, at least, they live the longest: Two years ago, federal researchers found that overweight people had the lowest mortality rate of any weight group. Investigating further, they [...]

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The Racism of Cosmetic Surgery

by Cara November 6, 2007

Beauty and the Breast has posted an article by Jennifer Cognard-Black, who has also written this great article on plastic surgery for Ms. Magazine. Her latest, Exporting American Beauty: Plastic Surgery and the New Culture of Worldwide Acceptance, was apparently intended for Ms., but they decided against printing it. I’d say that they missed out, [...]

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The perfect gift for that boyfriend who loves to see you suffer

by Cara November 1, 2007

This is by far the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a long time: on reasons why women might want to consider having her hymen surgically reconstructed. Thanks to Lauredhel for breaking it down so beautifully. I wouldn’t have the stomach or the patience to do it myself. This is absolutely one of those things [...]

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Man Makeup

by Cara October 30, 2007

Salon has an article up today on a slightly unusual topic: makeup for men. I remember a few years ago, some companies tried this out. And it was ruthlessly mocked pretty much everywhere that there was a platform from which to do the mocking. But apparently, the idea is making a comeback. Sort of. It’s [...]

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