Monday, April 2, 2012

Feministing Post

      The overall presentation of the blog feministing.com is very bland and uninteresting. I understand that this very well could be because she is trying to focus on not distracting the  reader from her point, but also it could also be interpreted as a contradicting point to her argument about what a "real woman" is. Henceforth the lack of visuals on the page. They really stress "there is no right way to hate your body" throughout the entire blog. I agree and disagree with this statement. I agree you should not be upset with your body because our society says you need to be skinny to be considered pretty. However I also disagree because sometimes its ok to hate your body in some way to give you some motivation to do something about what disappoints you.
      The two things that really stood out to me is the pictures of the women with a middle finger up and the  picture of the arabic woman. The logo of the middle finger I think is very misleading because it presents a attitude that women don't care and have a care free life style of who gives a crap. When in reality this entire blog is about how women hate their bodies and go to great lengths of trying to be like the women they see on television. The second picture of the arabic woman i honestly do not understand if it is an allusion to the story of Trayvon or what? If it is then the post could have used a better picture that correctly spells his name because in that case it could be interpreted as mocking the whole situation. I think overall the blog did present a valid issue, but could have done a much better job representing it.

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