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Kristen Stewart Sexy Leggy At New Moon Fans Event
Feed Me Gossip | November 13th 2009 by Russell
Kristen Stewart is all smiles at the New Moon Fans Event at Madrid?s Palacio de Vistalegre on Thursday (November 12).The 19-year-old Twilight actress looked stunning in a Balenciaga grey jersey organza embossed top and a leather and rayon skirt.Krist read more
Staggering Display of Privilege
Shakespeare's Sister | November 10th 2009
by Shaker GimliGirl, a 25-year-old mom, wife, student, and teaspooner at a Canadian University trying to get her Bachelor's of Education without losing her mind.[Trigger warning.]Today in my Science/Social Science class I came up against such a stagg read more
Now Gossip Gays allegedly “objectifies the girls”. NATE WAS A…
Michael Rennie Was ill | November 10th 2009
Oh this just keeps getting richer. After watching the new super scandalcilious episode of the most horrific show on television (I’ll get to that disastrous bombed-out hellscape of your nightmares in a minute), they were yammering about it on read more
When ‘being yourself’ is dangerous
blue milk | November 7th 2009 by blue milk
However innocuously presented (in fact, innocence is fetishised), we pretty much don’t know how to see a girl without objectifying her (even when we are feminist). Watching my pre-schooler I have moments where the thinness of her shoulders or t read more
Celebrity and Special Occasion Makeup and Self Esteem
Makeup Ideas | November 6th 2009
As a master artist and coach, I get to relate intimately with my clients through makeup application, hair styling, wardrobe grooming and body and voice coaching.I’ve often observed however that the low self-esteem of women and girls is mis-use read more
Intern Sweatshop: Boobvertising!?!
to change the world .... one AD @ a time | November 6th 2009
We just want to say that our intern came up with this topic all on her own, after doing extensive research, and had no prompting from any of us. Although we did discuss the title with her at length. All kidding aside, she does delve into an issue cl read more
Christa Palazzolo
My Right Brain | November 5th 2009 by Rachel Leonard
I am really drawn to Christa Palazzolo's work (and think she's amazing). Currently focused on using portraiture as a vehicle of mockery, isolation, discomfort, and objectification, she strives to confront formal aspects of painting with a contempor read more
QUEER GAZE: group photography exhibition at Fontanelle Gallery
Hungry Eyeball | November 3rd 2009 by Hungry Eyeball
Portland Photo Show Opening, First Thursday, November 5th, 2009 from 6pm – 9pm Fontanelle Gallery – 205 SW Pine Street Portland OR 97204 Fontanelle Gallery is pleased to present Queer Gaze, a group photography exhibition featuring images read more
delicious links for 2009-10-28
Smite Me! [.net] | October 28th 2009 by Kelly G.
It's A Vegan Dog's Life: Pumpkin Seed Muffins (with variations for biscuits, bagels & cookies) (tags: vegan recipe dogtreats) No Blood for Book Reviews! | Bitch Magazine (tags: objectification naked crime misogyny feminism peta) read more
Serena Williams' ESPN cover: Adulation, objectification, both?
What Tami Said | October 27th 2009
Hat tip to Sociological Images What do you think of the cover of ESPN's "Body Issue," featuring a naked Serena Williams. Lisa Wade at Sociological Images writes:Why is it that a woman rarely makes it onto the cover of ESPN and, when she does, she’ read more
fix the music biz by taking cues from the porn industry
.: jazzsequence :. | October 26th 2009
some ideas occurred to me after my recent post about the music industry, and then erin said something that i thought was not only genius, but perfectly summed up the kind of thinking that needs to happen to save the music business: if you want to fig read more
delicious links for 2009-10-26
Smite Me! [.net] | October 26th 2009 by Kelly G.
Shakesville: I Get Letters (tags: censorship trolls theinternets) Adam Lambert Has A New Naked Friend: On Sexuality, Objectification, and Subversion | Bitch Magazine (tags: feminism misogyny objectification naked) VeganYumYum » Super Quick Tom read more
Yahoo! and the Objectification of Women
Praetorian Prefect | October 19th 2009
During Yahoo!’s Hack Days, developers create web applications relying on Yahoo’s APIs (application program interface) or open source libraries. Initially started as an internal Yahoo event in 2005 by the then CTO Chad Dickerson, Hack Days for the read more
Blackface, and the Violence of Revulsion
Threadbared | October 12th 2009
This post is supposed to be about the latest occurrences of blackface in fashion -- specifically, the 14-page editorial featuring Lara Stone, a white Dutch model, painted black and shot by Steven Klein for the October 2009 issue of French Vogue and read more
PUFF! iPhone app gives Japan geeks their own Marilyn Monroe
SCI FI Tech | October 12th 2009
We've been waiting for (dreading?) the wave of oddball Japanese iPhone applications that were inevitable due to the country's penchant for creating the amazingly bizarre from seemingly mundane Western conventions. The latest "only in Japan" invention read more
Best Weekend Reading From Around the Web
The Seduction Bible | October 10th 2009 by Bobby Rio
Best Weekend Reading Pysch, from Pua Training posting an interesting article about opening calibration when you’re in the field picking up women. If you need some good openers, get your free ebook of pua openers I recently began giving away. If read more
Christa Palazzolo
design work life | October 9th 2009 by Courtney Dolloff
I’m fascinated by Christa Palazzolo’s portraiture, which she uses “as a vehicle of mockery, isolation, discomfort, and objectification”. View more from the selection below, “The Talking Heads Series”, and the rest read more
HOG trends?
A Game For Everyone | October 9th 2009
I've noticed a recent but obvious trend in hidden objects games. Have you noticed it?I'll call the trend "Girl HOGs" - hidden objects games which revolve around a young woman. I've compiled a table below to demonstrate what I'm talking about.Release read more
E.N.A
Girl, It's Not Just You | October 8th 2009 by Brie
Erect Nipple Alert. Is everyone familiar with the Urban Dictionary? I love it. If you can ignore the crudity of it, it has the silliest and best definitions ever known for anything. I’ve written about the sexual objectification of BW before. BW are read more
Just One Reason I Don’t Belong to NOW
Democrat Taylor Marsh blogs politics, Iraq, and culture | October 7th 2009
I really didn’t want to write about this, but NOW’s recent statement about David Letterman made it impossible to ignore, though I did try. Could they have sounded more retro, even clueless? When Mary Katharine Ham was opining about read more
N.O.W. Rebukes David Letterman Over Past Sexual Relationships Wit…
BlackPoliticalBuzz | October 7th 2009
(“Late Show” host David Letterman admits to having affairs with women on his staff and says someone at CBS had been trying to blackmail him. NBC’s Michael Okwu reports and NBC’s chief legal analyst, Dan Abrams, discusses the case.)Visit msnbc read more
Canadian Hip Hop gets it's due
Canadian Indie Music | September 30th 2009 by Tom Beyer
Canada's Wordburglar is our answer to Eminem - wicked beats with a lot of fun thrown in. Who says hip hop can't be accessible? Who says hip hop has to be about gansta rap (OG - original gansta) and the objectification of woman? Hey don't get me wrong read more
Ted Noten // Objectification
Trend Land | Fashion, Trend & Design Blog | September 28th 2009 by Cyana Trend Land | Fashion Blog - Design Blog
Jewelry Collection Almost a year ago we featured Tedwalk, a runway an exhibition of Ted Noten's work (see here), and since then I have been fascinated with his concepts and non-conformist design methods. I was searching around to see some news about read more
Children as Props
Eventide Unmasked | September 28th 2009 by H. E. Lavik
A lot of discussion on handling women as characters seems to be circulating around the Interwebs lately, a few of which I've linked here, so I thought it time to take a moment to speak on behalf of another objectified group -- children.In this case, read more
Oneichanbara Revolution [Scrubbed]
uDownload | September 27th 2009 by Sam Ami
Oneichanbara RevolutionPlatform: Nintendo Wii As you may have been able to figure out from the title, Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers is more concerned with parading an endless stream of undead monsters and women in rev read more
The Best Sports Bars in NYC
Blogging with Besen Retail | September 25th 2009 by Caitlin
You may have guessed that I’m not the sports bar kind of gal. Screaming guys, Bud Light, and the objectification of women reporters and cheerleaders isn’t really my thing. Yes, I get smirks when I order a refreshing glass of pinot grigio read more
CK Friday Links--Friday September 25, 2009
Casual Kitchen | September 25th 2009 by Daniel Koontz
Here's yet another selection of particularly interesting links from around the internet. As always, I welcome your thoughts and your feedback.PS: follow me on Twitter!*************************Dana reports on the surprisingly humane conditions at a ne read more
Epiphany
The Political Naturist | September 23rd 2009 by nudiarist
A columnist at the Burning Man festival looked forward to the "Critical Tits" bicycle ride like an "eight-year old on the night before Christmas", but as he stood there with his camera when the topfree riders rode by, he had an epiphany. Here’s the read more
Activists in Mexico Bomb Max Mara Store
Critter News | September 16th 2009 by Patrick Hennessey
ALF activists in Polanco Mexico bombed a Max Mara clothing shop. Max Mara is an Italian fashion house. You can read about them here. According to a communique received by Bite Back, they did this in protest of Max Mara's use of furs. With this sabo read more
Things in yaoi that bother me
The Yaoi Review | September 15th 2009 by AsukaRen
I’m sure like many fans there are things within the genre that bother me. Some more than others. Here is an interesting post from Feministe, posted back in March of 2008. Essentially it’s criticizing the objectification of males that a read more
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