“Invisible” lace. So let’s get this straight: you’re advertising the see-through lace isn’t actually see-through? This lace effectively airbrushes your body to not appear to have nipples or any type of crotch hair or skin folds or anything, rendering you more like a cartoon character than a real human. Reminds me of cheaper underwear that can’t afford to use real lace and has to use more fabric for support of the fake lace.
Are we all starring in a movie we need to make PG-13? Can’t have an R so we can get the kiddies? Maybe this is just a way the lingerie clothing company is allowing people to be ashamed of the normal parts of their bodies, things that are supposed to be there. I could have sworn that the fun part of having lacy underthings was the peep show factor or maybe getting to see something intimate (or just plain dirrrty for those of you that need the kink factor), like how the Rockettes and can-can dancers do high kicks that could lead to a peek at the lady bits.
Victoria’s Secret has been pushing their “cheeky” undies a lot in the last year. My inbox is full of ads for them. While they can have adorable patterns, one feeling is clear: this underwear is made to give wedgies.
Now, I don’t know about you, general readers aged 19-27, but I am in probably the best shape I’ll ever be and my skin is as elastic as it can get. I’m going to lounge about the indoor homestead in my underoos every chance I can. This lack of clothing means I need underwear that actually covers my buns to prevent cat hair and whatever from getting on my tush, as well as protecting furniture from smelling like ass. Besides my freewheeling need to bare almost it all, I also like to be able to walk without feeling something gathering in my crack area. With or without additional layers of clothing, it’s a thing I have to not have anything uncomfortable in the no-zone.
There is a ton of underwear that are cute or sexy and also cover all the buns. Some of those designs even hug the contours of the butt muscles that are exposed in the cheekies.
Are Cheekies cute? Yes. Are they functional? No way, unless you like your anus outsides getting rubbed raw from fabric.
The daughter of a family from West Africa was recently sexually assaulted by four neighborhood boys, aged 9 through 14, who admitted to authorities they planned the assault. Child Protective Services has her under their care currently while the boys are under arrest.
The police came to the scene after the happening, which was about 10 to 15 minutes long. The boys tricked her coming into shed with gum, then assaulted her. Calls were made when people heard her screaming and saw her run out with only a few of her clothes. One boy was caught by the police; the three others were later identified.
The police are saying the parents blame their daughter for the attack (a relative said that isn’t a true statement) and don’t want anything done to the boys. The father is on record saying he wants nothing done to the boys, only that he wants his daughter back. CPS will have her in custody for three months minimum.
AZ Central reports,
Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill, a longtime public-information officer, described the case as “one of the worst crimes we have come across in Phoenix in quite some time,” given the ages of the victim and the suspects, as well as the circumstances of the reported attack.
The girl and the four suspects are refugees from the war-torn West African country of Liberia, which, according to investigators, would complicate authenticating names and dates of birth.
Arizona Child Protective Services took custody of the girl after the July 16 incident at the apartment complex after her parents disowned her.
Hill said the parents blamed her for being victimized and bringing shame to the family.
This reaction from the father stirs up some trouble. Her mother’s reaction is in the video. The shame culture of parts of Africa are alive. Admittedly, the father explained he doesn’t understand the criminal justice system in the States as he’s only been here for five years, but his family consistently explain to interviewers how they will scold the girl for being raped and causing trouble She’s eight.
Everybody and their mom got pissed about this (except me because i JUST read about it sighface but maybe my mom knows about it) and now it’s on hold.
The British Government expressed alarm at the law, which applies to the 15 per cent of the Afghan population that is Shia Muslim. President Obama called the law “abhorrent” at the Nato summit in Strasbourg last week.
The Afghan Government is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines equality in dignity and rights regardless of religion or sex. Article 22 of the Afghan Constitution also explicitly reiterates the equality of men and women before the law. The Times, 2009 April 7
The Times had a copy of a draft, who knows how legit it is, but if it is…
the law explicitly sanctions marital rape. “As long as the husband is not travelling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night,” Article 132 says. “Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.”
Article 133 reintroduces the Taleban restrictions on women’s movements outside their homes, stating: “A wife cannot leave the house without the permission of the husband” unless in a medical or other emergency.
Article 27 endorses child marriage with girls legally able to marry once they begin to menstruate.
The law also withholds from the woman the right to inherit her husband’s wealth.
Good thing Karzai was just kidding because that law would allow girls as young as eight to marry and start doing the hippity dippity regardless of what they want to do because their husbands want poon.
Okay, even Newsweek is talking about it: female American kids being super duper obsessed with the way they look and getting treatments to look more attractive is the norm. Apparently it is now standard for little kids to get haircuts that cost the same as 20 comic books. That’s 50$ to normal people. That is lunch for a work week spent on getting your ten-year-old’s hair did.
Consider this: according to a NEWSWEEK examination of the most common beauty trends, by the time your 10-year-old is 50, she’ll have spent nearly $300,000 on just her hair and face. …today’s girls are getting caught up in the beauty maintenance game at ages when they should be learning how to read—and long before their beauty needs enhancing. Twenty years ago, a second grader might have played clumsily with her mother’s lipstick, but she probably didn’t insist on carrying her own lip gloss to school.
Is it really that bad now? Just in the big cities or everywhere?
I admit I was totes intrigued by the idea of keeping lip-covering substances on my person at all times, but I didn’t actually put it on because it tasted bad and rubbed off in a few minutes time. When kids go beyond the comfort of being okay with their own body into the world of never being good enough before their bodies are developed — mentally as well as physically — how do they create a stable self-image? Appearance continues to change over time, and when something isn’t “right,” when something happens to tip the little microcosm in their brain to instability, how are they going to react? Is this a simple case of retail therapy training, or are we going to push the kiddles into the brain meds a bit more quickly due to the incomplete feeling created by the ideal image? How are people managing their bodies? How attainable are their beauty or health goals? Is health even part of the equation?
MANY QUESTIONS THAT I CANNOT ANSWER.
Both men and women have enough body issues and insecurities without the addition of a huge body inferiority complex. It’s called being a teenager — wanting to fit into society. There are those who pointedly go the opposite of mainstream acceptance and end up being put into the category of (extreme) counterculture or (lightly) going through a phase. Either way, we all fit somewhere. As far as I experience, that’s what normal is. It can be an active or passive process.
Being okay with the way oneself appears is an indirectly learned thing. Idk if it’s being taught well if at all. I’m guessing it’s becoming a “do as I say, not as I do” type of lesson. Saying everyone should like their own body sounds great, but when the same people saying it spend an hour on makeup in the morning, or covering their graying hair with color while making a fuss about it, it sounds a tad disingenuous.
This other part of the article makes me wonder how much is amped up anti-media propaganda and how much is real. But what if it is real… this sucks.
these days, body dissatisfaction begins in grammar school. According to a 2004 study by the Dove Real Beauty campaign, 42 percent of first- to third-grade girls want to be thinner, while 81 percent of 10-year-olds are afraid of getting fat. “When you have tweens putting on firming cream”—as was revealed by 1 percent of girls in an NPD study—”it’s clear they’re looking for imaginary flaws,” says Harvard psychologist Nancy Etcoff. [link added]
I want to know how big these studies are and where they happened because I refuse to think it’s actually going on. Da Nile. I’m in it. This commercial, however, continues to rock.
Further digging reveals some fun articles on body image and how little girls are learning how to interpret body hair. This article on MSNBC talks about ten-year-olds getting bikini waxes and one salon’s “virgin” wax deal. People are getting their kids dehaired early on to “permanently” remove pubic hair because their mothers tell them it is ugly. It becomes considered a deformity. Half the time the kids probably aren’t fully developed or aware of how their body acts in adult form.
Isn’t it enough to accept a body as being imperfect, and the imperfections give it interesting parts to learn and explore? Telling her the way her body grows is gross seems like an awful lot of stress to put on a kid. Idk. I’m throwing a lot of loaded questions out here.
Shit like this is easier said than done when kids really do have a lot of body hair early in life. Any time in life really… additional hair can give people complexes. Me and my full face of hair know that. I keep it in check. I pluck, shave, and wax random parts of my body so that I look good according to the accepted concept of attractive. I’ve had laser facial hair removal six times only to have it grow back with a vengeance. Really the only hair that bugs me is on my face. The rest I leave alone half the time. My body was programmed to have it. But then, my ovaries are programmed to create multiple large cysts that create their own painfests of inconsistent popping, literally making my body sick until it passes. Maybe the programming isn’t always right.
Who am I to tell an eight-year-old to not worry about the hair on her legs when she’s as middle eastern as I am and getting made fun of for looking different? Besides somebody speaking from experience, just another adult trying to fight the good fight. While waxing my tummy.
There’s an in between somewhere in all of this.
I have room for one diva in my life, and she is covered in hair.
Reann Ballslee took the crown this year. She took up the challenge of being a part of the nominees as a joke, but actually won the contest, voted through email. This year’s theme is “No One Has Swagger Like Us.” Ryan Allen (the original name of the drag queen) hosts the school’s Annual Drag Show as Reann and is in his senior year at George Mason.
Haters are hatin’ on Sarah Blewden. She wants to box in the Olympics for Great Britain, but The Amateur Boxing Association of England says no. She has breast implants and the head honchos fear they could bust while she’s fighting. Blewden says her surgeon tells her she should be fine due to the implants being made of gel rather than liquid. She said she has no problem with paying for replacement implants if the ones she had now were damaged in a fight.
For now, women’s boxing isn’t part of the Olympics, but Olympic minister Tessa Jowell is attempting to have it allowed in the 2012 games.
“International rules forbid anyone with breast implants continuing to box because of risk of damage to the breast tissue,” said Tony Attwood, chairman of the ABAE.
“The natural breast tissue is pushed forward in front of the implant and it is this that is more at risk.”
Repeated punches to the breast could also lead to distortion known as capsular contracture, he said.
A former female basketball player is suing Central Michigan University and women’s basketball coach Sue Guevara, alleging she terminated a scholarship because of differences in appearance and sexual orientation.
That’s right. The way she looked — like a girl by today’s Western culture. A heterosexual girl. Whaaaaa? Take a look at the difference between the two ladies at odds:
Heike was constantly harassed by her coach for not looking dykey. Shit you not. Heike has the scholaship official and the Board of Trustees on her side. Apparently Guevara has a history of ‘tude concerning girls who don’t look like lesbians. I’m all for girls not feeling the need to wear make up or not be made up all the time, but she made fun of her for having a boyfriend. That’s just dumb.
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