What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• Ah. Apparently the Onion wasn’t as satirical as it thought it was, when it comes to nine-year-olds, at least. Father of 9-year-old rapper Lil Poopy in a heap of crap over son’s lewd lyrics and music videos
• Electronic burqa for inappropriately immodest women. [Iranian news agency covered up Michelle Obama’s shockingly naked shoulders at Oscar appearance]
• Not that we don’t “fix” women in the enlightened West, too. Oscar Star Jennifer Lawrence Missing Moles in Fashion Photos
(hat-tips for today’s links: JimRomenesko.com, bronxbee)
The comments on the “lil Poopy” article made my head hurt X(
Lil Poopy?
Clearly what’s needed is a mass-produced female body, made out of frosted glass, in the shape deemed to be completely perfect by the marketers; a computer-generated face and skin (tailed for the owner’s demographic) can then be projected onto the inside of it.
Those Lawrence photos look extensively retouched in many ways. She appears to be missing not only the moles, but about 30% of her body mass, and for reasons beyond my reckoning, her neck appears to have been bizarrely elongated. The whole photo album is creepy, antiseptic, and artificial-looking, which is ironic considering Ms. Lawrence’s warm, authentic persona (and her appealingly – to this male gazer at least – curvaceous figure). But as we’ve seen too many depressing times to count, that’s what the fashion industry apparently considers “ideal,” and they’re more than willing to Photoshop the hell out of even a naturally beautiful woman to force her into that model.