Overcoming the Attractiveness Bias
Bodies have been on people’s mind perhaps more than normal the past few weeks. Whether it be critiques about how we talk about Melissa McCarthy’s body or salivation over all those world cup studs or...
View ArticleRenee Zellweger’s Unlovely Remodel
Whoa, that’s Renee Zellweger? The 45-year-old actress is literally unrecognizable in photographs from Monday’s Elle Women in Hollywood Awards. Zellweger told People magazine, “I’m glad folks think I...
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In Defense of Beauty Pageant Contestants
Televised beauty pageants have reached such a nadir of cultural relevance today that it seems the only time we pay attention to them is when a contestant makes a viral-worthy flub during the...
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The True Beauty of Beyoncé and Cindy
Move over nude photos. The latest celebrity drama is over leaked unretouched photos. First came the unauthorized leak of a photo of Cindy Crawford posing for a Marie Claire photo shoot that hadn’t been...
View ArticleWhat the #KylieJennerLipChallenge Misses About Beauty
Social media was ablaze this week with reports of the #KylieJennerLipChallenge, which prompted a handful of attention seekers to suck the air out of a shot glass in an effort to achieve a plumper pout....
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What Happens When Our Beauty Icons are Plastic?
Australian rapper Iggy Azalea got another round of plastic surgery just months after getting a boob job. Mere weeks after revealing in the April issue of Vogue that she had breast augmentation surgery,...
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Why I’m Sick of the ‘Body Positivity’ Movement
When I was a student at Tufts, a scandal erupted when a sorority made its pledges stand elevated in their undergarments and allowed men rushing a fraternity to mark their physical flaws with a Sharpie...
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Sorry “Science”—Not All Women Are Lesbians
Guess what, girls? As of this month, everything you think you know about your own sexuality is wrong. If you think you’re straight, think again. And if men and men alone turn you on, well . . . you’re...
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Do Clothed Pinup Models Signal a Return to Modesty?
Ladies and gentlemen, clothing is making a comeback. The naked lady might very well be on her way out and maybe, just maybe, our culture is preparing to return to modesty. It started seven weeks ago...
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Blake Lively Isn’t Racist. She’s Vain.
You know a country’s lost its mind when people wail about a wrong that was not committed and ignore entirely a wrong that was. That’s exactly what happened last week when actress Blake Lively was...
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