{"id":7710,"date":"2009-03-15T02:17:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T07:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:53:07","slug":"vogue-puts-a-woman-of-color-on-the-cover-and-manages-to-be-both-sexist-and-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/15\/vogue-puts-a-woman-of-color-on-the-cover-and-manages-to-be-both-sexist-and-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Vogue Puts a Woman of Color on the Cover and Manages to be Both Sexist and Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women of color rarely grace the covers of fashion magazines like Vogue<\/em>.\u00a0 And yet, for the second time this year, the Vogue<\/em> cover features a woman of color, Beyonce.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in line with cultural stereotypes, the issue is the “Shape Issue,” contributing to the stereotype of Black women, and Latina women too, as especially “curvy.”\u00a0 We document the fetishization of black women’s behinds here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This month, Beyonce’s cover includes stories entitled:<\/p>\n

Fashion for Every Figure: Size 0 to Size 20<\/p>\n

Real Women Have Curves: Beyonce at Her Best<\/p>\n

NIP\/TUCK: Designing a Perfect Body<\/p>\n

WORK IT! Longer Legs, Leaner Lines, Sexier Silhouette<\/p>\n

THE RIGHT SWIMSUIT FOR YOUR BODY TYPE<\/p>\n

WEIGHT OBSESSION: One Woman Conquers Her Diet Demons<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The magazine sets up, essentially, an impossibility: \u00a0“Have curves, but by curves we mean something very specific: boobs and an ass.\u00a0 You know, like Black women’ve got.\u00a0 See Beyonce? She’s Black. So she’s got curves.\u00a0 No matter that she’s extremely thin.\u00a0 You should be extremely thin, too (‘WORK IT!’); eh em, we mean, ‘conquer your demons,’ we love you ‘from size zero to size 20.’\u00a0 Just kidding!\u00a0 We totally don’t.\u00a0 Design ‘your perfect body’ with cosmetic surgery!\u00a0 Then you’ll really love yourself… and we will find you acceptable… it’s win win!!!!”<\/p>\n

Racism and sexism.\u00a0 Nice work, Vogue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(Via Jezebel<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women of color rarely grace the covers of fashion magazines like Vogue.\u00a0 And yet, for the second time this year, the Vogue cover features a woman of color, Beyonce.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in line with cultural stereotypes, the issue is the “Shape Issue,” contributing to the stereotype of Black women, and Latina women too, as especially “curvy.”\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,230,244,55,2103,778,285,1760],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-fat","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31371,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions\/31371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}