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January 18, 2014 | celebrity | editor | 0 Comments
Online feminist screech site Jezebel has offered a $10,000 “bounty” on unaltered pictures of Lena Dunham’s Vogue shoot. We told you all about the porcine star of Girls appearing on the cover of the revered fashion magazine. The pictures were immediately considered controversial. Not for the fact that millions of men collectively lost their ability to become erect for 72 hours after viewing, but because the pride of authentic femininity had clearly been Photoshopped in her pictorial. Jezebel thinks this bounty will somehow shame the fashion magazine into admitting their crimes. Bullshit. First of all, everyone knows that magazines like Vogue doctor their photos to remove superficial imperfections as possible. We know Lena has been airbrushed because she’s been kind enough to share every wrinkle, cranny, divot, and crater on her expansive doughboy body over the past couple of years on TV. In the photos, Lena actually looks like somebody you might have sex with and not lie to your friends about. That’s a telltale sign they are fake.
But isn’t the real point here that Vogue decided to put a chunky unattractive woman on their cover just to grab a built-in guilt-free cheesecake biting audience of woman for their otherwise struggling print magazine? Vogue isn’t a magazine designed to empower women, it’s designed to make them feel inadequate so they’ll buy more shit to try and look like the girl on the cover. Though in this case that might mean less trips to Saks and more trips to the spinning hot dog rotisserie at 7-Eleven. Women need to learn to compartmentalize your content like men. You have Jezebel when you want to hate men, and you have Vogue when you want to hate yourself. Don’t try cross-pollinating. You’ll end up with Lena Dunham on your bed.
(Picture Via Vogue)