Comments on: Female celebrities during award season: Keeping it (too?) real http://www.about-face.org/female-celebrities-during-award-season-keeping-it-too-real/ Sat, 18 May 2013 13:29:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: MistressofBoogie http://www.about-face.org/female-celebrities-during-award-season-keeping-it-too-real/#comment-10140 MistressofBoogie Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:52:26 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10109#comment-10140 It bothers me, too. This is women at the top of their game, up for Oscars, but yet still feeling the need to proclaim their insecurities because, hey, we don't like women who are just great and strong and happy. Those types of women get reduced to the word 'bitch'. And they know it as well as we do. It bothers me, too. This is women at the top of their game, up for Oscars, but yet still feeling the need to proclaim their insecurities because, hey, we don’t like women who are just great and strong and happy. Those types of women get reduced to the word ‘bitch’. And they know it as well as we do.

]]> By: Helen Louise http://www.about-face.org/female-celebrities-during-award-season-keeping-it-too-real/#comment-9982 Helen Louise Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:45:43 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10109#comment-9982 </i>Argh, didn't take off the italics! from 'And.... that's a tragedy' it's me again. Argh, didn’t take off the italics! from ‘And…. that’s a tragedy’ it’s me again.

]]> By: Helen Louise http://www.about-face.org/female-celebrities-during-award-season-keeping-it-too-real/#comment-9981 Helen Louise Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:44:35 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10109#comment-9981 <i>And that I wish they’d work harder at accepting themselves than keeping it real.</i> Something about this post, especially this line, makes me rather uncomfortable. I would love it if all celebrities... and all people, to be honest... were content to consider their bodies their own business and not anyone else's. But people do have insecurities, and I can understand how actresses, including, and perhaps especially, those who are not 'Hollywood beautiful', are under a lot of pressure to look as good as possible enduring whatever discomfort to do so. You say that <i>The comments Spencer and McCarthy have made regarding their own bodies suggest to me that they think they’re somehow less worthy than other actresses nominated. That they have to call out their own flaws before the merciless press—and we—have the chance.<i> And... that's a tragedy. But it's not just down to two actresses who have the audacity to endure a bit of self-doubt occasionally - there's a whole culture of body shaming out there that they have to contend with. It feels like you are just criticising Spencer and McCarthy for having occasionally low self-image, rather than criticising the culture that makes women like Spencer and McCarthy feel this way. And that I wish they’d work harder at accepting themselves than keeping it real.

Something about this post, especially this line, makes me rather uncomfortable. I would love it if all celebrities… and all people, to be honest… were content to consider their bodies their own business and not anyone else’s. But people do have insecurities, and I can understand how actresses, including, and perhaps especially, those who are not ‘Hollywood beautiful’, are under a lot of pressure to look as good as possible enduring whatever discomfort to do so.

You say that The comments Spencer and McCarthy have made regarding their own bodies suggest to me that they think they’re somehow less worthy than other actresses nominated. That they have to call out their own flaws before the merciless press—and we—have the chance. And… that’s a tragedy. But it’s not just down to two actresses who have the audacity to endure a bit of self-doubt occasionally – there’s a whole culture of body shaming out there that they have to contend with. It feels like you are just criticising Spencer and McCarthy for having occasionally low self-image, rather than criticising the culture that makes women like Spencer and McCarthy feel this way.

]]> By: kaylee http://www.about-face.org/female-celebrities-during-award-season-keeping-it-too-real/#comment-9917 kaylee Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:27:23 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10109#comment-9917 I love about face and thanks so much for writting for them! I absolutly agree with you about these two women being amazing trailblazers and wishing that they didn't talk about needing to wear spanx. I wish they talked about how women shouldn't be extremly uncomfortable and focus on how badly their body feels in spanx when they could be focusing on how special they are. I mean everybody has insecurities, it's important how you deal with them. I think it's awesome how honest they were about their bodies, maybe what would have been amazing and truly going against the grain would have been to talk about themselves and said I felt I needed to wear these items of clothing but wish that as a woman I didn't feel that way. I wonder though if in a way by them talking about their bodies and the things they go through to look the way they do it could be an example for other hollywood women and men to follow about being open about their body struggles. I guess you can't win them all! :) I love about face and thanks so much for writting for them!
I absolutly agree with you about these two women being amazing trailblazers and wishing that they didn’t talk about needing to wear spanx. I wish they talked about how women shouldn’t be extremly uncomfortable and focus on how badly their body feels in spanx when they could be focusing on how special they are.
I mean everybody has insecurities, it’s important how you deal with them. I think it’s awesome how honest they were about their bodies, maybe what would have been amazing and truly going against the grain would have been to talk about themselves and said I felt I needed to wear these items of clothing but wish that as a woman I didn’t feel that way. I wonder though if in a way by them talking about their bodies and the things they go through to look the way they do it could be an example for other hollywood women and men to follow about being open about their body struggles. I guess you can’t win them all! :)

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