I might be wrong, but I think in one of her "arguments" she said that women shouldn't be portrayed with big hoop earrings and red lipstick because it could be seen as a stereotype and "that's a mans view of a woman" and "they want to try to make us see that as the ideal". Yet it's something she frequently wears, so she started photoshopping out her hoop earrings and changing the colour of her lipstick.
Questionable if she shopped herself (why wear earrings you dislike for a staged picture?) or just some random person on the internet wanted to make an improved version of her.
The one on the right doesn't even LOOK like her. Not just the nose, they've changed the lips, eyes and forehead, too. Not to mention take a decade off the wrinkles.
That is some AGGRESSIVE photoshopping. I get a little airbrushing here and there, but this is ******* sandblasting and repainting.
From what I'm able to put together from a basic google search, neither Anita nor Femfreq actually did photoshop to this degree to the original picture. In fact, the picture on the left has been used in all of the articles I've seen that featured this scene. It seems to be that the photo on the right was photoshopped by someone unaffiliated with Femfreq.
Whether that is the point or not, just figured I would set the record straight for people that might erroneously believe Femfreq actually did this photoshop rather than focus on the painfully childish arguments the organization puts out.
When you go to magazines or publishing websites, you sign a contract. That contract says 'the photograph and article belongs to us'. They can legally do whatever the **** they want with the photo.
Because you get paid a lot of money to be in the magazine. Some people do prefer that their words not be editted or shortened in interviews. Some people don't want to be photoshopped. But you have to ask for the contract to stipulate that they not do these things.
Otherwise the contract is basically, we give you $$ for four hours in exchange for twelve photos we own the rights to, and a two page article we own the rights to. Because they own the rights to both, they can do whatever the **** they want. They could photoshop her eyebrows off, if they wanted to.
Doesn't her boyfriend market her, though? He basically writes everything she says. What's so difficult about taking the view that he's in charge of how she looks in marketing, as well?
Because her whole audience are people who consider themselves lesser, either because they're gay, fat, trans, whatever. If they found out she photoshopped her pictures, there'd be massive backlash.
Well, this is an old picture in question, methinks. And around the time when she declared herself as trouble for gamers, there was no trace of that cute little button nose shop, it was the witch beak with a deadpan centre shot.
Honestly, I really think the scientific community - or even the debating community - needs to declare war on feminism & rip it apart. Show them what progress really is.
Yeah, well, get your house in order, you have very vocal aspects of your ideology pushing for internet censorship, & no one deserves that kind of authoritarianism to be forced within their lifetime. They don't have the right to define what you believe, or to define what your movement should mean. & they are not above reproach, regardless of whatever rhetoric they weave to make it seem so. If feminism is going to mean anything after the next world war, & that one's coming, then it must be above what defines it today, & renounce it.
One thing I believe we can both agree on is that dogmatic thinking & conduct in society is the root of many modern evils. Upholding that belief means that you're holding a double-edged sword, & it cuts both ways, naturally. Its difficult, but nothing worth having is ever easy.
So, you're a feminist? Then save your ideology from the false prophets who have established religious standards of thinking within it. Sarkeesian herself studied P.R, & that's the work of Edward Bernays, one of the most evil shrivelled bastards over the past century, who wrote the book on mass manipulation. Youse will either have to do it yourselves, or society will eventually tear itself apart extricating such influence from its core, & the fallout of that is a species so jaded its genders can't trust each other at all.
And what, pray tell, will happen to the enjoyment of sex then?
That was a lot more logical and rational than I was expecting.
Unfortunately, these days, the media controls just about everything. An example I like to apply is that these extreme women are the 'Westboro' of feminism. However, since the media eats this **** up (because panic is the canned emotion of choice, these days - Monsters Inc style), it's a lot harder to convince the majority that 'not all feminists'.
I have been trying to exert my voice, by signing petitions and going to the occasional rally where I can. Once I got called white devil because I called out a lady for being misandristic. I've been blocked from Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn and Anita's twitter accounts, for asking rational questions in response to their dumb posts.
I even post on FJ with this badge, and endure all kinds of hate, sexism, pseudo-violence (from like three different anons, weaklings) because I feel like if I can convert a handful of you all, then I can talk sense into anyone.
Convert me? lol, well indulge me being the somewhat pleasant M.R.A you know online! I'm of a person-by-person basis, although I gravitate towards people who hold their own as rational, tis why I'm enjoying talking to ya! A group in my own country, Ireland, are rather odd in that I've heard very little of them, but I look at our national Broadcasting Service, RTE, & in regards to that I'm not really surprised; they filter out any criticism towards the state that they can, if they're not reporting death, debt & depression. So, I'm considering the setup of a framework to counter their spin on news, & hopefully find a way to establish a connection to Men's Human Rights Ireland. Youtube's a starting point, but independence of online social media is what anyone will need. It might be the mic stand for a few voices of reason, but its not a viable HQ.
"White Devil"? I hoped you laughed in her face!
True, the conventional & financially established media outlets that have a large framework cannot be trusted to do right, they most likely have to be pressured into upholding the standards that originally defined journalism, & their hosts or 'guest speakers' countered without mercy. Its usually from such types that the woo begins to spill out from.
If you don't want to read further, that's cool, I happen to go off into essays a lot. If not...
In regards to those logical & rational qualities you identified, well, I happen to have looked up Fudo-Myoo over the past while, & expressed my line of thought by those qualities. Fact or fiction of his myths aside, a key point of his legend is his transformation from demon to Guardian Deity status in Buddhism, & the rest of my complementary study into Martial Arts the past 2 years for me has started a bit of a shift in my line of thinking. It would have been very wrong of me & a betrayal of those values if I leapt at the chance to argue with you simply because you're a feminist. Its become increasingly clear to me that the more modern representations of zealotry in the world, through either secular, or religious agents of values or ideas on reality, Black Lives Matter, the White Ribbon campaign, the process of Moral Typecasting, plain ***** journalism, & just about any example of religious fundamentalism, including ISIS & Myanmar's ethnic cleansings. Nah, Buddhists won't get off easy either are the true examples of what's wrong with life today, & the true hurdle we have to get over.
Looking at the stories that are being pushed today, & the ulterior motives of the people giving the story, which they try to disguise under careful phrasing, I've been getting this pressure, this impression that plenty of people in the world are reaching a fever pitch in their thoughts & actions, seemingly from nowhere. That part of the impression is what gets my hairs up on the back of my neck.
If you look up the recent coverage on Melissa Click from the Missouri protests, for example, you have a clear example of a taskmaster, & it points towards the notion that the demands pushed on that campus, to have a mandatory percentage of the faculty staff being black, regardless of professional qualification, is in itself an ideological manuever to establish a clear percentage of people whose jobs they owe to her & the movement. And that amount of bodies - 10% - can be crucial in determining legislative policy later down the line. From there, it begs the question; what are the ratios of faculty members separated by the ideological divides in that campus?
Applying that kind of criticism & analysis to other facets of societies across the world is a grind, & if you're public about that researching then avenues of information could be closed to you before you get the chance to look, but connecting those points of influence is vital, I feel, if there's going to be any chance of cleaning out the thought pool in today's world & removing the sarcasm or irony attributed to the term 'progressive.'
It's funny, I actually developed a respect for religion and various lifestyles during my training in taekwondo. My parents are quite racist, my brother is sympathetic to them.
In Australia, most of our major media is run by one guy who owns every newspaper - except one news show. Their target audience is the young and well informed, so they oppose most news media in quite a sarcastic way.
As long as you don't broadbrushedly dismiss the claims of others in the styles of thunderfoot and tl;dr, I think a youtube is a great idea! This is a channel that I quite like, he explores Australian politics and even has a research team in the background, but you wouldn't know it based on his videos. www.youtube.com/user/friendlyjordies