media
Back to Basics: Advertising’s Image of Women
Sometimes it’s best to get back to the basics. The Demoiselles is founded upon the idea that every body – our real bodies, without cosmetic enhancements and Photoshop – is beautiful, and that we must fight against a greedy, marketing-based media to remind ourselves and others of our natural beauty to avoid losing ourselves and [...]
Tone Your Children – Or Maybe Just The Girls
We’ve been aware of the influx of shaping, toning, butt-fixing shoes for months now. Personally, we find it vindicating and liberating to switch channels during the ridiculous commercials and, as fashion bloggers on the side, reap the anti-sartorial benefits of their horrid shape and design by snarking to our heart’s content. That being said, we’ve [...]
The Other Side of Labels
This weekend I reconnected with an old friend, and over chili rellenos and mushroom quesadillas, I explained to her the mission behind The Demoiselles. We laughed about my long-lived desire to tell the status quo to fuck off and unabashedly destroy the perceptions the media creates for us. My friend had never heard of the [...]
Can’t Stand the Hate: Cutting BridalPlasty Down to Size
Kristy is an occasional guest blogger for The Demoiselles and a member of the TD community (moniker “Owl“); an opinionated 20-whatever-something who can’t seem to shut up about feminist, queer, and fat issues; a Tumbl-er who posts pretty things, funny things, random things and her personal theology (Owls & Elephants); a damn good baker and [...]
The Beauty Calibrator
We love the way this guy – Mike Gerbino of Critical Theory – sums it up. On this busy almost-holiday Friday, remember to appreciate your “flaws,” because they’re anything but. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_HBrwLIyBs
What To Do When Your Friends Are Brainwashed
Everyone is “guilty “of telling at least one off-color joke in their lives. Everyone has poked fun at a friend or relative (hopefully in good nature). We’ve all participated in gentle jesting at the expense of others – whether we know them or not. The line is blurry when it comes to “good-natured” when we [...]
We All Know Why You REALLY Work Out…
Warning: This piece borders on Article Outrage. It appears that these “tone your legs while you walk” shoes are really starting to take off. It started with FitFlops. You know, those ugly-beyond-life flip-flops with the rounded bottoms that force you to activate your leg muscles while you walk. Aren’t they magical? Truly. But we all [...]
Trench Warfare! Firing Range! …Shoe tying? = WEIGHT LOSS!
An article on Jezebel yesterday alerted us of a New Zealand advertisement for a weight loss drug, Xenical. Sure, we’ve all seen commercials on the tube for everything from pills to patches to pulsating electrical currents that promise to shed the pounds while you sit around sedentary – ahh, the easy life. But what if [...]
Huge: A Live Blog Affair
The focus on “health” in the media has skyrocketed over the last year or so – with shows like The Biggest Loser, Losing It with Jillian, and The Style Network’s Ruby giving America a “real life look” at our major health issues relating to weight. I’d been hearing murmurs about the new ABC show, “Huge“, [...]
The Allure
This weekend, while playing on Gilt, I succumbed to a moment of swooning: The Allure of Women (Gilt, Amazon). What could be a better coffee table book? I’ll tell you what: The Allure of Men (Amazon). After spending more than a year submerging myself in the murky waters of media, societal perceptions, and what “sexy” [...]
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