electronic burqa for inappropriately immodest women (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

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)

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Isabelle May

Thu, Feb 28, 2013 8:59am

The comments on the “lil Poopy” article made my head hurt X(

Karl Morton IV

Thu, Feb 28, 2013 9:01am

Lil Poopy?

RogerBW

Thu, Feb 28, 2013 1:42pm

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.

MisterAntrobus

Thu, Feb 28, 2013 4:49pm

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.