"Men and women have to put on mental armor every day to deflect the pointed barbs and subtle hints that we should wax away hair, lose twenty pounds, and have bigger breasts or a larger penis."
~Tammy Vitale & Heather Bartlett

Archive for 'Pain for Beauty' Category

Looking for a Few Vaginas

Jul 23rd, 2009 by Heather | 0

I am working on a new project and I need models who are willing to have their yoni photographed.
I am curious about how women feel about the way their vagina looks.  How it functions.  If they are happy with their vagina or if their opinion has changed over the years about it.  Do you wax?  [...]

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Ads Can Really Annoy Me

Jul 9th, 2009 by Heather | 0

Sometimes ads just get on my last nerve.  These were on Facebook.  My 15 year old daughter is convinced that the “woman” in black shiny “pants” is a statue or something.

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Is Miss. America a Body Image Role Model?

Feb 25th, 2009 by Heather | 1

 
Did you know it’s “Body Image Awareness Week?” I didn’t, until Julia Piscitelli told me. You’d think that would be the kind of thing I’d be…well, AWARE of!  Actually, I learned that it is also being called “Eating Disorder Awareness Week.  So, it would seem it’s both.
Miss. America is speaking tomorrow at American [...]

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If you aren’t tall enough in China, you might be dateless and jobless

Dec 4th, 2008 by Heather | 1

On the National Geographic website I watched a video about a subject that fits in with Body Politics; bone stretching.  Apparently in China you will have a hard time being successful and even dating if you aren’t tall enough.  The video shows a bone stretching clinic and some patients.  It can take a year to [...]

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Modern Day Self-Inflicted Foot Binding

Oct 12th, 2008 by Heather | 0

We love those sexy high heels don’t we?  See the ones at the top of this page in the Body Politics graphic?  Those are my feet in a pair of high heels.  Cute, yes?  Yes, of course they are.  Sexy too, yes?  I think so.  Also, heels of various types speak of an era.  You [...]

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Modern Day Foot Binding – 4″ Heels Could Leave You Flat On Your Back

Aug 25th, 2008 by Heather | 0

Apprentice star Claire Young: ‘My killer high heels wrecked my spine – and left me in agony’
By Amanda Cable
Last updated at 10:47 PM on 25th August 2008
Claire Young strutted to television fame as a finalist on this year’s The Apprentice wearing her trademark four-inch high-heeled shoes.
A fast-talking, tough businesswoman, it appeared that nothing could floor [...]

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