"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off"- Gloria Steinem
- One feminist took action against the clothing company, Abercrombie & Fitch. In May 2013, CEO, Mike Jefferies stated "Abercrombie & Fitch is only for cool, good looking people and that is why we do not sell plus size articles of clothing". A young plus size woman sent Mike Jefferies a letter of photographs illustrating that plus size woman can wear his clothes and look "cool" and good looking. She did a photo shoot of herself to show how real Abercrombie & Fitch models look in their clothes. It is one person against a whole company, but this story hit news racks and internet blogs fast! Abercrombie & Fitch Ads Reimagined As 'attractive & fat'"
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- Victoria Secret VS Dove: Lingerie company, Victoria Secret ran their "Love My Body Campaign". In their advertisement, they expressed ideas about gender, sexuality, objectification and perfect body images. In reality, there is a handful of women that actually look like what Victoria Secret wanted to express. Also, these women are showing objectification through their stance. How many women have you seen stand normally like they are standing? Now compare that to how many dolls have you seen that stand like they are. Objectification is seeing the body as an object rather than what it actually is (WVFV 216).
On the other hand, Dove expressed more of what a feminist would do. The soap company emphasized body acceptance and showing real women how they truly are.
Jessica Valenti:
A feminist blogger talks about the upside of being ugly. She mentions how a female teenager was being bullied by the way she looks and how the teenage girl just wanted to change her looks, so her mother held a charity to have her daughter under go plastic surgery to make her "beautiful"/ presentable. The bullying ended up stopping but the daughter learned all the wrong lessons. Jessica mentions that she was not an attractive teenager growing up either, but she learned to embrace who she is and eventually worked with what she has. The daughter being bullied missed out on the life lesson of learning to accept who you are and not to care what others think. Everyone ends up in the same place of growing up and becoming one out of a billion in the world. No one should be influenced by others to change. In all, Jessica blogging helps establish a better world by letting others know what is going on and how to change it. She also wrote a few books about these certain double standards going on in our society.
A feminist blogger talks about the upside of being ugly. She mentions how a female teenager was being bullied by the way she looks and how the teenage girl just wanted to change her looks, so her mother held a charity to have her daughter under go plastic surgery to make her "beautiful"/ presentable. The bullying ended up stopping but the daughter learned all the wrong lessons. Jessica mentions that she was not an attractive teenager growing up either, but she learned to embrace who she is and eventually worked with what she has. The daughter being bullied missed out on the life lesson of learning to accept who you are and not to care what others think. Everyone ends up in the same place of growing up and becoming one out of a billion in the world. No one should be influenced by others to change. In all, Jessica blogging helps establish a better world by letting others know what is going on and how to change it. She also wrote a few books about these certain double standards going on in our society.