I am not much of a recapper (I don’t even like pageants!). But I’m in this thing and must fulfill my duties until the end! So here is what you officially need to know about the 2007 Miss Universe pageant:
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I’ve just figured out that the Miss Universe pageant isn’t coming on until 9p eastern time. That seems quite late. How ever will the children watch?Well, at least that might give me more time to work on my theory of bikini nationalism, or at least to contemplate how global beauty standards might be following shifts in global capital, thus recreating in our relation to sensuality a dissonance not unlike the one growing in the U.S. between sex and desire.Okay [head shake], back to earth. I am thinking of an msNBC article I read last week, on models and pageant contestants from Africa, Read the rest of this entry »
By now I’m sure you’ve seen the news that we all already knew, but I thought this crowd would particularly enjoy the snippet at the end of this note on the AAUW’s findings about college and the gender pay gap: Read the rest of this entry »
(I just like to see her face w/o all the crazy bettiness.)
CNN.com has this article on Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera, about her feelings on her own body image.
It’s a little bit of a non-story, which is why I find it interesting.
I’m sure Measuring Beauty, Beauty as Power, Celebodies, and Celebrities and Paprazzi might have more context on this, but it seems to me that, as stories on every pound gained Read the rest of this entry »