Women Beware Women

[poliphilo]

I'm at the doctors- and what have they got in the waiting room? Women's magazines- the cheap ones- with articles entitled "I married my abuser" and "my new vagina" and picture features that gloat over the weight gain and fashion disasters of female celebs. My heart sinks.

Porn degrades women? Maybe (I'd be prepared to debate that one) but not half as much as these women's magazines do. Here every unsuccessful woman is a dozy cow who has let herself be exploited by men and every successful woman is a stuck up bitch just asking to be pulled back down into the ditch where she belongs. "God, but she looks fat in that!"

Misogyny sells. And the most avid consumers of it are women.

Comments

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

what i really hate about women's magazines is when they do articles about "curvy" women and proclaim things like "plus-size women are sexy too! real women are beautiful in all forms!" and then women readers write gushing letters of appreciation for this "progressive" vision of beauty. what would really be progressive is if they featured women of all sizes all the time without drawing attention to it as if it's some kind of special occasion.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They mock a woman for putting on weight. You turn the page and they're mocking another for looking anorexic. It's so cruel and controlling.

To me it's obvious that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Every woman is beautiful in her own way.