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Jack from FUN. in Rolling Stone magazine, sporting one of our God Hates Bags totes!
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Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.
I think the main, horrifying thing about these airbrushed pictures being distributed, is there has been a lot of media hype calling this beautiful girl fat. It’s like, the media refuses to let her be proud of her body. They’ve even changed her face shape, making her almost unrecognisable. We always rant about how airbrushed photos affect us, but imagine how they must affect the people being airbrushed. Imagine feeling super confident and good about yourself after a photo shoot, and then seeing the end result and realising you weren’t good enough for the magazine. It must be crushing.
I remember, when my friend was practising photo shopping, she took a photo of my face and airbrushed it without my permission or even warning me. Personally, I found the un-airbrushed photo of myself more attractive, since it looked like me, but the airbrushed version was so disheartening. She’d changed the shape of my nose, elongated my face and taken out the scars by my eyes and the scar on my chest from my operation. She only did it as light hearted practice for her art exam, but it crushed me. She didn’t realise, and perhaps the photo-editors don’t realise, that by airbrushing out all the little imperfections on my face she made me feel like I wasn’t good enough. The little scars and freckles and the bump in my nose were all things that made me, me, and she took them away.
Similarly, by changing Jennifer Lawrence’s body, they’re telling her that no matter how successful she is, no matter how talented she is, she will not be good enough because of the things about her that make her who she is.
And I just find that sad.Why are people so afraid of curves? Ugh, this is disgusting, but I can’t say I’m surprised.
Jennifer Lawrence seems so cool and is obviously a total babe. Stop all this overly abused photoshop madness and let a girl be!
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Pier 1 with my mom @snufflesa
Inspired by Wednesday Addams, Rachel Antonoff’s spring lookbook, starring a gorgeous Mae Whitman, is hauntingly stylish (in every sense!). Check out the entire collection here »
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Spring/Summer 2012
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Top That! with Alia Shawkat, Jack Antonoff, and Rachel Antonoff
*If this doesn’t make your Friday, I don’t think anything will. Trust me.
Ryan Rickett directs Alia Shawkat, Jack Antonoff, Rachel Antonoff, Natasha Leggero, and Daniel Silbert in this direct recreation of the infamous “Top That” scene from Teen Witch.
