http://www.about-face.org/yahoo-news-paints-women-as-just-haircuts-and-heels/ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.about-face.org/yahoo-news-paints-women-as-just-haircuts-and-heels/#comment-21542 Denise Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:48:02 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10734#comment-21542 As long as we have a society that focuses more on women's appearances, and makes a big deal about what she wears, her hairstyle and, especially, how fat or thin she is, we'll continue to have this vapid, superficial kind of so-called "news" reporting. Women are seen as nothing more than their bodies, and judgments are made about what kind of people we are based solely on our body shape as well as how fashionable we are, rather than the type of character we have. We've been so conditioned to think of ourselves as nothing more than our outsides we can't even see ourselves as having an inside. And society picks up on that, and encourages it, and on we go... As long as we have a society that focuses more on women’s appearances, and makes a big deal about what she wears, her hairstyle and, especially, how fat or thin she is, we’ll continue to have this vapid, superficial kind of so-called “news” reporting. Women are seen as nothing more than their bodies, and judgments are made about what kind of people we are based solely on our body shape as well as how fashionable we are, rather than the type of character we have. We’ve been so conditioned to think of ourselves as nothing more than our outsides we can’t even see ourselves as having an inside. And society picks up on that, and encourages it, and on we go…

]]> http://www.about-face.org/yahoo-news-paints-women-as-just-haircuts-and-heels/#comment-19764 Lori Sat, 21 Jul 2012 04:14:09 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10734#comment-19764 I'm so glad that you wrote about this!! I use to have a yahoo email address, but I deleted it several months ago because I was so tired of all of the sexist articles about women. The headlines are all about who looks hot in their bikini, dress, skirt, etc.... Who cares?! I’m so glad that you wrote about this!! I use to have a yahoo email address, but I deleted it several months ago because I was so tired of all of the sexist articles about women. The headlines are all about who looks hot in their bikini, dress, skirt, etc…. Who cares?!

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