Roger Weiss Studies The Hypocrisy Of Beauty In A Series Of Photos Which Distort The Objectification Of Women Artist Studies The Hypocrisy Of Beauty In A Series Of Photos Which Distort The Objectification Of Women Roger Weiss is a Swiss-born photographer, who displays in his work the obsession with the human form and try to touch in his work, issues such as the objectification of women. Human Dilations is a study in the feminine form and foray into the subject of beauty and it’s stereotypes. A woman is often boiled down info a series of visual queues that objectify and define her. Weiss’s project studies whether each form—in it’s distortion and elation—is a physical whole, or simply an object. “Human Dilatations does not fear the marks of frailness of the body and its imperfections,” said Weiss. source: beautifulsavage Share This With Friends « Honey Maid “Made” It Again!
Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women by Maria Popova Exploring gender identity and cultural disposition through rare archival images from 1800-1980. Having competed in amateur (a.k.a. drug-free) bodybuilding in my college years and to this day remaining the dedicated maintainer of a six-pack, I’m tremendously fascinated by the intersection of femininity and muscularity. So I was thrilled to come across Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women — a fascinating collection of rare archival images by David L. Chapman and Patricia Vertinsky 30 years in the making, chronicling nearly 200 years of sociocultural narrative on the strong female physique. This treasure trove explores strongwomen’s legacy through rare posters, advertisements, comic books, flyers, and magazines, many never-before-published, for a total of 200 fantastic full-color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs, framed in their intriguing and far from frictionless cultural context. They aren’t building their bodies for us, anyway.
Sum of the parts? How our brains see men as people and women as body parts Public release date: 25-Jul-2012 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Sarah Gervaissgervais2@unl.edu 402-472-3793University of Nebraska-Lincoln When casting our eyes upon an object, our brains either perceive it in its entirety or as a collection of its parts. Consider, for instance, photo mosaics consisting of hundreds of tiny pictures that when arranged a certain way form a larger overall image: In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives. A new study suggests that these two distinct cognitive processes also are in play with our basic physical perceptions of men and women -- and, importantly, provides clues as to why women are often the targets of sexual objectification. The research, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, found in a series of experiments that participants processed images of men and women in very different ways. "Local processing underlies the way we think about objects: houses, cars and so on.
Bustle Every morning while making my bed, I catch my reflection in the mirror across my apartment and lift my shirt to assess my midsection. Turning to the side, sometimes I think, “Not bad.” But more often than not, my eyes linger on the slight bulge of my tummy. Remembering a kettle chip incident or skipped workout from the day before, I vow to be more vigilant. My routine went largely unchecked until a few weeks ago, when I scrolled through Facebook and clicked on a nutrition headline. “It’s almost like killing the breathing woman. Feeling overwhelmed, I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. “I remember vividly when I was a child, there was an ad for pantyhose that had a terrifying pinwheel of dismembered women’s legs, and something about that disturbed me,” Tomi-Ann Roberts, Ph.D, a psychology professor at Colorado College, tells Bustle. Dismemberment is a gruesome brand of objectification, and it preserves the idea that women are just the sum of their body parts. Pin it The results?
Si les Trois Grâces étaient trois mannequins d'aujourd'hui, à quoi ressembleraient-elles? Ces GIF prouvent notre culte de la minceur A quoi ressembleraient les peintures des siècles passés si on leur appliquait les standards de «beauté» actuels? Lauren Wade, l’éditrice photo du site Takepart.com, a retouché des classiques de la peinture. La photographe, qui admet avoir elle-même été amenée à retoucher de très nombreuses photos, explique la raison de son travail: «Tout au long de l’histoire, les peintres, de Titien à Rubens en passant par Gauguin, ont trouvé de la beauté chez des femmes qui ne seraient jamais entrées dans une taille 0.» En passant des tableaux de grands maîtres à Photoshop tel qu'elle le ferait pour des photos de top d'aujourd'hui, Lauren Wade nous permet de visualiser quels sont nos critères de beauté actuels. Titien, Danaé avec Eros, 1544 - via Takepart.com - Cliquez sur l'image pour l'agrandir Degas, La Toilette, 1884 - via Takepart.com - Cliquez sur l'image pour l'agrandir Gauguin, Deux femmes tahitiennes, 1899 - via Takepart.com - Cliquez sur l'image pour l'agrandir
L’objectivation sexuelle des femmes : un puissant outil du patriarcat – le regard masculin Partie 1 : définition et concept-clés Partie 3 : les violences sexuelles, des actes d’objectivation extrêmes et dissociant Après une première partie introductive, je vais rentrer dans le vif du sujet et commencer par discuter de la forme d’objectivation sexuelle la plus commune, celle qui passe par le regard masculin. Cette forme d’objectivation est souvent appelée male gaze dans les pays anglo-saxons et consiste à inspecter et évaluer le corps des femmes. Sur le graphique présenté en introduction, nous nous trouvons donc à la première étape : les expériences d’objectivation sexuelle, qui surviennent quand autrui nous traite comme un objet sexuel. Graphique résumant les conséquences de l’objectivation sexuelle. Le male gaze : une prérogative des hommes qui s’exprime via le harcèlement sexuel Blachman est une émission danoise humiliante et misogyne dont le concept est le suivant : deux hommes évaluent le corps d’une femme qui se présente nue devant eux. Conséquences du harcèlement sexuel 1.
14 Painful Examples Of Everyday Fat-Shaming If you've ever doubted that fat-shaming is something that happens every day, just listen to the hundreds of Twitter users who shared their stories last week. Blogger Melissa McEwan created the #FatMicroaggressions hashtag to start a conversation about the inappropriate and hurtful comments directed at overweight people on a regular basis. Microaggression, a term coined by Professor Chester Middlebrook Pierce in 1970, refers to small acts of aggression towards people of a certain group -- usually those of non-privileged races, classes or ethnicities. Fat acceptance blogger Living~400lbs posits that overweight people are particularly susceptible to microaggressions because it is acceptable to be openly prejudiced against fat. Fat microaggressions can be subtle, which is why others -- especially those with thin privilege -- may not be quick to notice or object to them. Here are 14 revealing tweets from people who have experienced fat-related microaggressions: I am constantly underestimated.
Growing Up Brown: Desexualized and Hyper-sexualized Originally published on Feminspire and cross-posted here with their permission. I’m always surprised by the way I look. Sometimes I look down and notice that my thighs are taking up much more space than I would like. Or sometimes I glance at myself in the mirror and realize that my arms are fuller and rounder than I expected. I don’t expect to look like myself. I don’t want to look like them – not outwardly, at least. I tell myself I don’t care if I’m not “beautiful.” But then I’m caught off-guard every once in a while when I catch a glimpse of myself somewhere and realize that I do not look like anyone in the movies. Chaya Babu recently published an article on the Feminist Wire called Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality. As a Muslim and a second-generation Pakistani-American immigrant, a lot of what she said stuck with me, especially a paragraph describing her experience in high school: “Women of color were mostly unseen as partner options.
Sondage: La perception de leur corps par les femmes varie en fonction de leur milieu social Certaines sont fières de leur corps, d’autres aimeraient mieux l’oublier. Révélé ce mercredi, le sondage exclusif* CSA pour 20 minutes et Terrafemina.com, montre que la perception de leur corps chez les femmes varie en fonction de leur milieu social. Ainsi, 74% des femmes cadres et professions libérales estiment que leur corps constitue une part de leur identité, contre seulement 54% des employées et des ouvrières. Un écart de perception s’expliquant par le fait que les femmes de catégorie sociale supérieure sont les plus satisfaites de leur corps (58%), tandis que les ouvrières expriment un rapport plus compliqué à celui-ci (32% en sont mécontentes). Plus grave: 22% des ouvrières considèrent même leur corps comme unhandicap dans leur quotidien. Lire aussi le dossier de notre partenaire Terrafemina.com Delphine Bancaud
Watch A Student Totally Nail Something About Women That I've Been Trying To Articulate For 37 Years Lily Myers: Across from me at the kitchen table, my mother smiles over red wine that she drinks out of a measuring glass. She says she doesn't deprive herself, but I've learned to find nuance in every movement of her fork. In every crinkle in her brow as she offers me the uneaten pieces on her plate. I've realized she only eats dinner when I suggest it. I wonder what she does when I'm not there to do so. Maybe this is why my house feels bigger each time I return; it's proportional. It was the same with his parents; as my grandmother became frail and angular her husband swelled to red round cheeks, round stomach, and I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking, making space for the entrance of men into their lives, not knowing how to fill it back up once they leave. I have been taught accommodation. You learned from our father how to emit, how to produce, to roll each thought off your tongue with confidence, you used to lose your voice every other week from shouting so much.
Short Hair: A Love Story I’d always had long hair. But more than having long hair, I had hair which, by our society’s beauty standards, was “beautiful” – long, silky, and straight. I had people, even complete strangers, compliment me on my locks. Some people would even tell me how beautiful I was just because of it. I would nod, smile, and say thank you. But inside, I had a secret. I wanted to cut my hair. And not just a little. When I expressed this to people, they urged me not to go through with it. “It would look so ugly.” But in spite of everyone’s opinions, I cut off fifteen inches of hair last year, gifting myself the pixie haircut I always dreamed of. And I loved it. Cutting my hair was one of the best feelings in the world. But it also got me thinking: I was always physically free to cut my hair, so why did it take me so long to do it? And the truth was: I didn’t feel free. It was something much greater that was holding me back from cutting my hair – society. What Society (and Media) Teaches Us about Hair 1. 2.
Seduced by the Illusion: The Truth About Transformation Photos | Andrew Dixon There is no doubt that we live in a world of manipulation, false promises and exaggerated claims. This is especially true in the fitness industry. I’ve been a personal trainer for more than 11 years, and clients and friends are always telling me about the next amazing diet or exercise program. The reasons these programs become so popular is because they are presented and marketed very well. In my opinion, these photos are selling false or exaggerated promises of what 90 days, etc., of their program can achieve. I decided to take my own transformation photos to see what was possible with just a few easy tweaks. As you can see, I’m no bodybuilder, but I had enough muscle on me to catch some shadows from the all-important overhead lighting. Just a few weeks ago I took another series of photos in an attempt to be a little more deceptive. What’s my point? We all spend too much time sucking in our guts, trying to look the way we think society thinks we should. It’s all smoke and mirrors.