Women Athletes: Choose Between Strong and Sexy
Laurie and Debbie say: (Cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) Unusualmusic, blogging at The Angry Black Woman, has an excellent initial post on what we expect American women athletes to look like, and live like. One of the great problems that women athletes face is the idea that women are heterosexual sex objects. And the beauty ideal [...]
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Aging Is (Not) Unnatural
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross-posted to Body Impolitic. All photographs by Laurie Toby Edison. Some photos below may not be okay for office viewing. After our introductory post here last week, Daisy Deadhead asked if we wrote about age as a body image issue, since we hadn’t happened to mention it in that post. Great [...]
...read more“I’m Sorry, But We’ll Need to See Your Genitals”
Laurie and Marlene say: (Marlene Hoeber blogs regularly for Body Impolitic. This post is cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) From the Philadelphia Gay News comes this disgusting story of Kate Lynn Blatt, whose employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment. Blatt was working for Manpower, a temporary employment service. After [...]
...read moreDisabled Character: Able-Bodied (Emaciated) Actresses Only, Please
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic We had our attention brought to this casting call for Stargate: Universe, a Stargate franchise TV show due to debut in October of this year as a movie, and then a regular TV show on the Syfy channel. [ELEANOR PERRY] (35-40) and quite attractive. A brilliant [...]
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Will the Real Kelly Clarkson Please Stand Up?
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic Self Magazine isn’t ashamed that they clipped pieces off of Kelly Clarkson’s body for their current cover. They’re proud of it. Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief at Self, did a whole blog on the Self site about the decision to photoshop Clarkson’s figure. Here’s a picture of Clarkson [...]
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Body Impolitic Greets Feministe!
Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin say: We are delighted to be invited to guest blog here at Feministe. We can usually be found (along with a couple of regular guest bloggers) at Body Impolitic, where we blog about body image (interpreted as widely as possible), photography, art, and occasional other topics. We got into [...]
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