Apr
17
Dear Allure:
Filed Under General
The recent nude photo spread in which you railed against puritanical attitudes and billed the disrobing of women as “empowering” and something that is “good for girls” was a cynical, disingenuous ploy that hijacks feminist language for the purpose of selling the consumer shit and pushing the destructive diets found in your pages.
When you splash those pages with perfect celebrity bodies and their quotes in which they opine about how IMPERFECT their bodies are, and what a GOOD thing for girls this is to see, all I can hear those girls thinking is:
If they are imperfect, what does that make me?
I guess we are lucky that Allure handily provides all the solutions to the insecurities it perpetuates. If I want to see perfect, (*however laughingly you would all like to claim them imperfect) naked women I can just look at the lad mags. I’m tired of the meme that the sum of a woman is her parts.
Yours truly,
Sick of this.
*I can understand that with the pressure women face to live up to a perfect feminine ideal in this society, that even celebrities have insecurities about their bodies and that they are certainly not perfect. But don’t give me airbrushed, oil slicked bodies and expect me to believe that this will subsequently foster healthy attitudes in girls about their bodies.
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