Today’s New York Times fashion slide show (permalink) offers image after image demonstrating our society’s bizarre infatuation with posing women looking awkward, even deformed, frightened, compromised, uncomfortable, even in pain (click through on the arrows on the upper right).
I am unsure what to make, particularly, of the interest in images in which women are in dirty and uncomfortable, even painful, places and positions (see the “Maiden Voyage” spread with women in the shipyard in the NYT slide show linked to above). I included some of those images that I’ve collected below. Do we hate women that much? Or is it about something else (also)?
