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Celebrity magazines
The 'Celebrities; Loved & Loathed' article questions the effect of the contradictory messages expressed by celebrity gossip magazines about womens' bodies.
Why do you think celebrity magazines will praise 'curvy' celebrities one week, and then ***** about some 'blubbery B-lister' the next?
If we like the idea that celebrities are real people too, then why do we relish a snap shot of them with sweaty armpits?
Do you think women are effected at all by the judgements they see made about famous women?
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6/10/2006, 12:20 am
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KateJayne1
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Re: Celebrity magazines
I am such a contradiction, I really hate how we put these women on a pesdestal then tear them down, at the same time I pour over pictures of them looking terrible. Personally, I look for pictures of celebs which display the flaws I'm most insecure about - skin problems and chubby stomach. Other people might look at bad teeth, or greasy hair, or fat legs or whatever. It's a sort of relief really. "Cameron Diaz has awful skin, but is still considered beautiful and lands a (not that I personally consider justin to be, but still) hunk".
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6/10/2006, 4:43 pm
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I completely agree, but though it may re-assure us, and make us feel better about our own insecurities, it also supports the idea that there's something wrong with us in the first place. Celebrity magazines seem to give us an unrealistic and unachievable image of perfection, which re-affirms all the things that we think are wrong with ourselves, and in some cases highlights 'problems' that we never even knew we had! It also seems to make it ok for us to slag off other women. It's bad enough that men call us sluts and *****es all the time without women doing it as well! We should be celebrating beautiful, talented, intelligent women, not degrading them.
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6/11/2006, 2:07 pm
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i think celebrity magazines are just another example of how the media tries to undermine women by dividing them.. they encourage us to see other women not in terms of their achievements, but only in their appearance and success as a 'celebrity', which a lot of the time just involves being as slutty as possible. I think it encourages women to be critical and judgemental of others in order to make themselves feel better, instead of making women come together to fight against their oppresion in society it encourages them to compete with each other, over appearance alone
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9/11/2006, 11:12 am
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Celeb mags seem to be capitalising on women’s magazines’ formula where a desperate reliance on advertising and the stimulation of readers as consumers, dictates the content. They’re acting as reflective surfaces identifying flaws, highlighting inadequacy and then magically providing the solution in 5 easy steps to a more beautiful, relevant and socially acceptable you. It’s femininity through consumption gleefully applied to those we should revere for getting it right, and those we venomously ridicule for getting it wrong.
I’m increasingly resentful of the sycophantically fawning representations of women like Victoria Beckham who have come to represent everything I am trying not to be. What’s most depressing is that I find myself seduced, actually engaging with these mags in the hope of a Beckham backlash article that validates the feeling that I’m not alone here. I can also sense that while I may be preoccupied with the minutiae of celebs lives, fashion and all that other sh*te that doesn’t really matter, I’m not really present and active in my real life. Having said that, writing this has made me feel a whole lot better – now I’m off to wipe my ar*e on Heat magazine.
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10/23/2006, 12:27 pm
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