Harpers Bazaar

Following the interesting lip radio poll on women’s magazines, I picked up HB to read in the doctor’s office this morning because I like looking at high-fashion clothes. But it turned out the magazine just really depressed me. Seeing Kate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman endorsing beauty products shits me. These women surely have enough money from making movies that they don’t need to sell themselves for advertising. But worse is the fashion photos – the ones from runway shoots especially. Near-dead looking, pale, stick women with almosts non-existent breasts baring nipples for no reason. Yes, I’m PMSing and ready to cry at the drop of a pin, but still, nothing about those photos are celebratory or even positive to females or their bodies. I don’t know what it is…. I don’t understand what it is about. It’s not sexy or alluring – it’s not about the male gaze – it’s like about exposing female flesh and wasting away bodies just because, well, they can… It’s vile.