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Sharon Hawkins (alwaysasnapefan) wrote,
@ 2008-02-06 08:53:00

Snow Day, and omgwtf?!?!
Snow Day! Awesome!

But, not so awesoe is a new gallery on AIM's homepage. I find it terribly sexist! Celebrity Women Without Make-up. As a woman, especially one who doesn't wear make-up, I'm very offended.

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	red_day_dawning 2008-02-06 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	I'm baffled by the whole celebrity-obsession-thing - they're just not that interesting! I mean, they get photographed because they're famous, so their photographs make them more famous, so they get photographed because they're famous... weird, huh? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	alwaysasnapefan 2008-02-06 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	Did you go look at that? They're saying things like "That's not Ronald McDonald, that's Sharon Osborne" and stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

red_day_dawning
2008-02-06 03:55 pm UTC (link)

Yeah - I went to have a look, but didn't recognize many people in the thumbnails & couldn't be f***ed looking closer. I did notice the comments were really insulting...
It's just TOO weird - the magazines love it when the celebs are looking glamourous, but they love it even more when they're not - as I said, the whole celebrity thing just baffles me. I mean people really get into it, buy magazines & stuff - & they're just not that interesting...
I did notice they were only showing pics of women though...

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	alwaysasnapefan 2008-02-06 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	I don't go out of my way to learn celebrity news most of the time or anything, but I do get star struck . . . although I've never met what most would consider a "real" celebrity. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gryffindorj 2008-02-06 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	My sister in-law saw Nicole Kidman in the Hamptons a few years ago with no makeup and said she was still incredibly gorgeous. And yes it is sexist. (Reply to this) (Thread)

alwaysasnapefan
2008-02-06 08:14 pm UTC (link)

Some of the comments of people talked about how the lifestyle of a celebrity can really weigh on them. You could tell that was true in many of the pictures.

Some other comments blamed make-up for damaging their skin. Maybe that's true too.

Personally, I've been told I look better without it. I haven't really worn it daily since the seventh grade (freshman in college now).

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	cloudsdriftby 2008-02-07 12:18 am UTC (link)
	But...why? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	alwaysasnapefan 2008-02-07 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Why am I offended, or why did they do that? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cloudsdriftby 2008-02-07 01:00 am UTC (link)
	The second one. I don't get what's so fascinating. They're human, they aren't born with makeup, they got to take it off sometime! p.s. i love your icon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

alwaysasnapefan
2008-02-07 01:08 am UTC (link)

Thanks lol.

And I don't get it either. Especially all the rude comments they made. Celebrities or not, I don't believe you should talk about a person, especially a woman like that. Like some of the commenters said, that's further degrading to women and is a terrible example for the younger generation.

I have a sister who thinks she looks like shit and says that all the time. She won't leave the house without straightening her hair. I have another sister who won't leave the house -- I'm not kidding -- won't leave the house without putting on her make-up. And then my brother is constantly calling himself fat (he's really thin). I'm the only one who's okay with my body, and both of the younger two have called me fat before. That's their problem, not my problem. I've worked a long, hard way to gain acceptance of myself. I'm not letting the media, my family, or other wayward opinions get me down.

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	elethian 2008-02-08 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	WOW are some of those comments fucking rude. I don't wear makeup either (aside from glitter and sometimes concealer for my rather dark undereye circles), except for special occasions. And even on those, I usually think I look very weird with it, overdone, a crow-in-peacock's-feathers thing like out of Aesop. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	alwaysasnapefan 2008-02-09 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	I was pleased to see so many people comment about the overall heartlessness of it, especially using "[Blank] looked like they were going to a women's shelter" as a dis. Oh. My. God! (Reply to this) (Parent)