Comments on: What is Beautiful

By: Melodie

Melodie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:20:14 +0000

I feel bad for celebrities sometimes. They just can’t win! I think Angelina is a great role model for young women thinking about breastfeeding. She’s pretty, she’s cool, she’s married to Brad Pitt, she does good work in the world outside of her films and she breastfeeds…for media use. Hooray!

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:10:47 +0000

I completely agree. The most recent incident is with Angelina Jolie. The father of her babies took beautiful pictures of her breastfeeding. So many people spoke that it was gross and not something that needed shared with the public, even though not a speck of breast was showing. Yet she shows up to the SAG awards wearing a dress backwards purposefully (moving the slit to show off her back rather than her front side) and she got made fun of for looking too “matronly” and not showing enough skin!

By: kirsten

kirsten — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:26:54 +0000

As a woman who has been in the fashion industry for 15 years. I see this in action. From magazine covers with naked women and men in dark suits to brides wanting their dresses to show “clevage”. Yes, women are overly sexualized and we are letting it happen as we as perpetuating it. In how we judge other women, how we shop and how we go about getting a mate. While breastfeeding in public is seen as disgusting, shocking and often relegated to restrooms. Would you eat a meal in a public restroom? Would a man?