Media Moment "US Weekly Cover and Its Message"

This weekly celebrity and entertainment issue caught my attention. The selling line "Tortured by her body" captures the very essence  of what the media is constantly promoting to their audience and reveals its contradictory message. While the media promotes unattainable standards of beauty, it is the media itself criticizing Kim Kardashian for feeling ashamed of her body, even after loosing '30lbs in 2 months'.

We have fallen into a never-ending cycle: not even the 'role model' that the entertainment  business creates are able to keep up with the expectations that they demand. Consequentially, celebrities are forced to hide from the public eye. As a result, the media creates even more pressure for renown people to either obtain a perfect shape or live through the shame of having a normal post-pregnancy body.

All of this happens while consumer women absorb the idea of pregnancy as equivalent to a 'Tortured' life. We have transitioned to a society in which having a family is actually handcuffs to a woman, and only single, child-freed women can be hot, glamorous, and happy. Sure women have the right to determine whether motherhood is the right choice for them and have a myriad of valid reasons to decide against it. The question is how deep does the representation of pregnancy and motherhood in the media influenced their decision.

Media Moment 1- Derewko Torres

The black in white image is from the 4th Trimester Project, this interested me because the image is projecting reality, how most women look like after birth. I choose the article with supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio to contrast what people and even women themselves expect to look like after birth. Does anyone feel that the photo is effective in changing how certain people feel about post birth bodies?

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Bikini Kill - Double Dare Ya

We're bikini kill and we want revolution
Girl-style now!

Hey girlfriend,
I got a proposition
Goes something like this:

Dare ya to
Do what you want
Dare ya to
Be who you will
Dare ya to
Cry right outloud
You get so emotional baby

Double dare ya, double dare ya, double dare ya
Girl fuckin friend
I double dare ya
I triple dare ya
Double triple fuckin
Double fuckin dare ya

Don't you talk out of line
Dont go speaking out of your turn
Gotta listen to what the man says

Time to make his stomach burn
Burn, burn, burn, burn
(double dare ya)

Youre a big girl now
Youve got no reason
Not to fight
Youve got to know
What they are
'fore you can stand up
For your rights
Rights-- rights--rights? 
You have them, you know.

Spoken Word

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India’s Incredibly Powerful "Abused Goddesses" Campaign Condemns Domestic Violence

Branded: ESPN Documentary

There is a new ESPN documentary for it's Nine for IX series called "Branded." It illustrates the inequalities between women and men sports-focusing on how men can make a living based solely on talent whereas women athletes need to make most of their income from endorsements. Those endorsements feature women in two sectors: innocent naive good-girl or sexy vixen.

Here is a link for a synopsis: http://espn.go.com/espnw/w-in-action/nine-for-ix/article/8948901/nine-ix-film-summary-director-branded