beauty myths

The most interesting thing about breast cancer is the breasts

by Cara October 26, 2007

AlterNet has published a really great article on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Lucinda Marshall decides to take a look at many different women’s magazines and take a look at how they cover the issue. There’s a lot going on there, so I strongly suggest reading the whole thing. Her first point: the reporting on breast [...]

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Love Your Body Day

by Cara October 18, 2007

Happy Love Your Body Day! The annual Love Your Body Day by NOW is a celebration of female bodies in all their natural forms, an opportunity to raise awareness about harmful media images and a day to fight back. To the left is my all-time favorite winner of the Love Your Body poster contest. You [...]

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Poison Makes Me Pretty

by Cara October 12, 2007

So lipstick not only tastes like a bizarre combination of paint, paste and chalk, costs way too much money and dries out your lips, according to a new study it might also be dangerous to your health. Maybe all of that lead makes it last longer? Or makes the color prettier? Lipsticks tested by a [...]

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Britney loses her kids gets fat

by Cara October 6, 2007

For those of you who are lucky enough to avoid this kind of “news,” Britney Spears lost custody of her kids this week. My take on the situation is that it’s very sad but possibly best for her kids right now, and ultimately absolutely none of my business. I’m in the minority, though, because everyone [...]

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Beauty is in the Eye of the Money Holder

by Cara October 5, 2007

This article from AlterNet about whether the idea of natural beauty has been abandoned due to the rise in popularity of plastic surgery really got under my skin (pun not intended). It is apparently out of American Sexuality Magazine, which I have never read but certainly won’t be picking up anytime soon, based off of [...]

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BMI = BS

by Cara October 2, 2007

Kate Harding has put together a slideshow illustrating how ridiculous BMI standards are. The show includes everyone from the underweight to the morbidly obese, and a lot of you might be surprised at what you find. Even as someone who has a history of railing against the BMI, it was not exactly what I expected [...]

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Obligatory Britney Post

by Cara September 10, 2007

Sigh. Okay, so there are about a million things that I would rather be writing about right now than Britney Spears. Trust me. So I apologize to those of you who don’t want to hear it, and to those of you who have already heard about it 20 times already. But I feel that, unfortunate [...]

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Size-Positivity, Art and Objectification

by Cara September 10, 2007

Via the Weekly Feminist Reader comes this site: The Adipositivity Project. Adipose means “of or relating to fat.” The site gives this description of the project: The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), [...]

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To Gray or Not to Gray?

by Cara September 9, 2007

Last week’s September 10 issue of Time had an interesting article about women and gray hair, written by Anne Kreamer, author of Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters. . . . [W]e may have a contentious new baby-boomer argument over gray hair that is [...]

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As if the truth about cosmetic surgery isn’t scary enough

by Cara August 31, 2007

So I found this to be pretty funny. A new study has just been released that supposedly “reveals why women have cosmetic surgery.”. Sounds exciting, huh? And, when you see the results, it also looks really scary! So scary, in fact, that even I was fooled until I stopped to read it a second time. [...]

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