August 2009

  • Truth in Advertising: Airbrushing is BS

    By becksta on 8/24/09 1:01pm
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    ModelModel      Via Betty Confidential.

    According to the Telegraph ,  the Liberal Democrats Party, which supports many women's issues, is trying to go for a little more truth in advertising. Their goal is to either  ban airbrushed advertisements in magazines or have airbrushed magazine advertisements come with a "warning label" saying that the ads are airbrushed.

    Maybe the label could read: It is humanly impossible for anyone to look this good naturally. 

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  • The Ugliness of Pre-Teen Beauty Pageants

    By becksta on 8/3/09 3:49pm
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    This clip from "Little Miss Sunshine" demonstrates the ludicrousness of pre-teen beauty pageants as Olive does a pseudo strip-tease taught to her by her grandfather. The other mothers in the audience freak out about the dance and leave the auditorium, but the irony lies in the fact that their daughter's faces are painted like 20-something pop-stars or even worse, prostitutes. The competition starts off with a bathing suit competition, with a majority of the girls in bikinis, which is just plain wrong.

    If think this is just a movie, think again.

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