Making the A List Means Abusing Women

womanist-musings.com - 12/1/2008

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How do you know when you have reached the top of your game? How do you know that you have been placed in the category of the elite? When you get to display violent, racist images of women like some kind of trophy in your office. Pirelli is a tire company that each year produces a ...

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Monday Blogaround
Shakesville — ... Monday Blogaround | posted by Melissa McEwan | Monday, December 01, 2008 lol your fat blogaround Recommended Reading: Marcella: Carnival Against Sexual Violence 60 Echidne: Marin Alsop Pam: NYT Op-ed on Prop 8, Blacks and a 'Moral Minority' Renee: Making the A-List Means Abusing Women (NSFW; trigger warning) Dori: Who wakes up and says, "I wish I could be oppressed too"? Coturnix: Why Blog? Science Online Students Answer Sarah in Chicago: Looking for some Help: Job Hunting Leave your links in comments... View ...

It’s not beauty that’s being celebrated
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Renee at Womanist Musings alerted me to this post she’s written about this year’s Pirelli calendar. Pirelli is a tire manufacturer, and this calendar is a VIP exclusive, sent out to the elite in the auto industry. Men’s Vogue describes it as such: ...

How far is too far in exotified, graphic, disturbing portrayals of women?
Feministing — ... Exotified images of women of color being tortured and images put together to play to the fantasy of "savage" with sexual overtones is actually just deeply disturbing. I am well aware that you can't curtail someone's fantasies, but I argue you sure as hell can analyze them. Women's bodies placed in native and indigenous seeming contexts where they are being dragged and eluding to torture or essentially comparing their bodies to animals to be hunted is a shocking display of colonial misogyny and woman hate. This calendar should be protested. ...