katie horwich
April 14, 2011
Artist Katie Horwich collected The Sun’s page 3 girls everyday, using them as ready manequins in order to create a clothes diary. Painting on her outfit everday, Horwich claimed it was an act of sisterhood, feeling as if it was her duty to cover them up
Day to day women are opressed and exloited without even realising it. Images, comments, adverts, remarks made all contribute to the ongoing patriachal society in which we live in. This blog is to raise awareness to just some examples of how. Please visit my ‘fighting back’ page after in order to discover the ways in which we can deter this unequal society.
these are a few photos from the stop motion film i created. using thread to symbolise the pressures that are forced upon women, i took a photo each time a new thread was added to my models face, to show the build up until her whole face was taken over.misinterpretations
March 31, 2011
Due to the constant opression of women, adverts and programmes on the tv which should be humorous and fun, become a topic for controversy, therefore good adverts which target males or females which should simply be a joke, become read in the wrong way due to past injustices.
sexism over the years
March 31, 2011
Women have been stereotyped and will be continued to be stereotyped in the media. Everything mentioned in this advert creates expectations that women feel they must meet in order to be a ‘real woman’. Staying slim and sexy, handbags, finding the right man, and maintaining a perfect house and lifestyle.
itv’s take me out
March 29, 2011
A tv show where 30 females are judged purely on appearances and a few flirty comments battling against her fellow females in order to win the ‘sexy’ man.
“Take Me Out is back! The provocative, cheeky and electrifyingly funny dating show – where it really is first impressions that count – returns with even more fun in the sun as the potential love birds jet off to the ‘Island of Love’.
Matchmaker Paddy McGuinness is back to fix up a host of sexy single ladies from across the UK in the hope of finding a match made in heaven. Each week, four brave bachelor boys will have to impress Paddy’s flirty thirty to try and bag themselves a date. But if the girls don’t like what they see then the boys face a black out and a trip back home alone”
toddlers with tiaras
March 29, 2011
superman vs. superwoman
March 29, 2011
Why does nobody want to feel like a natural woman any more?
March 29, 2011
“Buying stuff is the way our culture encourages us to believe we have some kind of power. When it all goes wrong and we have bought the wrong stuff, then we discuss the morality of it all. The woman who died recently after having industrial silicone injected into her buttocks was a sad case of someone buying the wrong stuff. The moral of this story seems to be: next time you are having buttock implants, get a reputable surgeon”
Suzanne Moore , The Guardian, Saturday 19th February 2011
page 360
March 29, 2011
The Sun’s Page 3 beauties in new
360-degree glory
“THIS week The Sun is celebrating 40 fabulous years of Page 3”
Who’d have thought 40 years ago that you’d one day be able to interact with your favourite Page 3 lovely.
Simply click the link to launch a pop-up of today’s Page 3 girl Peta, click and drag your mouse and watch as she turns.
We’re the first paper to bring 360 degree images online and you can also get Page 360 on your iPad. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3227771/The-Sun-celebrates-40-years-of-Page-3-girls.html
People say that women are finally equal to men, yet the Sun is still celebrating how women everywhere are belittled by this newspaper.
When researching this new ipod app, where men can view page 3 women in 360 degrees whenever they choose, i found these comments left by men aged around 50 years.
“love it!”
“Yum to all of them.”
“Hollie 360 degrees is great.
How about updating Desktop Keeley so that we can have a topless Hollie etc. walking across our computer screens?”
It appears that men like these believe that judging these women by how ‘yum’ their body is, is the norm.
Rihanna is envied
March 25, 2011
youtube comments regarding her half naked videos
“I’d kill for those legs…”
“oh shut up. she’s hot..and has a beautiful body that every girl should be jelaous of”
“She may aswell walk around naked- no problem if she did ;)”
“would definitely do her!”
Every other comment is about her appearance.
And those comments that are actually about the quality of her performance…
“lame, she sings really bad live”
“her voice sounds awful here”
“this is about as good as a cat getting slowly run over by a car”
youtube comments by girls
“OMG!!She is so HOT & SEXY!!
“Uh….., I am so jealous!”
“she’s beautiful I’m actually jealous of her”
“She is stunning!”
Jealous girls are believing in the idea that we must be sexy in order to be talented, what happened to the original simple piano set and a perfect voice?
the glass ceiling
March 25, 2011
‘in the UK, 73% of women felt the presence of a glass ceiling, whereas only 38% of men did’
great views
March 25, 2011
Muslim Culture inequalities
March 25, 2011
When working the other day on the hottest day of the year so far, I spotted a Muslim family and it really came to light how women are treated unequally. The men were dressed in shorts, t shirts and the women were draped from head to toe. Why are women forced (by men) to wear layers of material to avoid ‘being attacked’ (by men)…
“In 2001 a militant group called Lashkar-e-Jabar demanded that Muslim women in Kashmir wear burqas, head to toe garments that cover their clothes, or risk being attacked. Men threw acid in the faces of two women for not covering up in public. The group also demanded that Hindu and Sikh women dress so as to identify themselves: they said that Hindu women should wear a bindi (the traditional colored dot) on their foreheads, and Sikh women should cover their heads with saffron-colored cloth.”
perfect models everywhere
March 17, 2011
lyrics must be sexy..
February 15, 2011
“Show a little leg
Gotta shimmy your chest”
Christina Agulaira ‘Express’
“Shawty wanna hump
And oh I like to touch ya lovely lady lumps”
Lil wayne ‘ Lolipop’
“They say I’m really sexy
The boys they wanna sex me
They always standin next to me
Always dancin next to me
tryna feel my hump hump
Lookin at my lump lump”
Black eyed peas ‘Humps’
“Hey! Little girl
Better wear something pretty”
Frank Sinatra ‘Wives and Lovers’
Patronising mode of address and constant referal to a women’s appearance and body creates a false idea that we must be sexy in order to be valued
we are becoming partners with the pressurizing media
February 15, 2011
‘Women are doing this to women.
You are cannibalising your own gender,
women push women to try and fill this impossible image…’
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