{"id":24778,"date":"2010-06-22T11:48:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24778"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:11:05","slug":"the-ugly-truth-about-women-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/22\/the-ugly-truth-about-women-and-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ugly Truth about Women and Beauty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/Capture6.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/Capture6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"140\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32356\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChloe Angyal (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feministing<\/a>) sent me a link to an interesting, if disheartening, segment of her from GRITtv with Laura Flanders about women&#8217;s willingness to suffer as they try to meet beauty ideals. Seems that if you want to discourage women women from using tanning beds, don&#8217;t warn them about skin cancer. Just tell them it&#8217;ll make them ugly. For instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The women in the study were more concerned about avoiding ugliness than about avoiding potentially deadly cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QwPU5G1jddQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Be sure and check out the comments to the video over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QwPU5G1jddQ\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">YouTube<\/a>. Really fascinating: lots of comments about Angyal&#8217;s appearance and statements like, &#8220;chole looks like a feminist, very\ufeff ugly.&#8221; For an interesting discussion of the &#8220;feminists are ugly&#8221; reaction, read <a href=\"http:\/\/yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/21\/ugly-the-last-refuge-of-the-lazy\/\">this post<\/a> at Yes Means Yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chloe Angyal (from Feministing) sent me a link to an interesting, if disheartening, segment of her from GRITtv with Laura Flanders about women&#8217;s willingness to suffer as they try to meet beauty ideals. Seems that if you want to discourage women women from using tanning beds, don&#8217;t warn them about skin cancer. Just tell them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2089,2099,2096,252],"class_list":["post-24778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-healthmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44394,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24778\/revisions\/44394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}