Real Women Have Pores
The Huffington Post started a new feature called The Big Picture. It is quite simply that: big pictures of celebrities. In these high def images you can see lines, makeup smudges and peach fuzz on famous faces. These are the same people we usually see airbrushed and softened to perfection. So far the site has featured Lindsey Lohan, Sting and Elizabeth Hurley.
The HuffPo doesn’t say on its site what the point of the feature is, leaving us to believe it is merely a grab for readers and not a statement on the entertainment industry and body image.
If it’s supposed to be an honest look at the stars, it fails. The pictures might be up-close and hi-def but the celebrities have still been made up, fluffed and styled to perfection –something a “real ” person doesn’t have access to before heading out for say, oh I don’t know, a PTO fundraiser.
If it’s supposed to shock us, leaving us gasping, “Lindsay has pores!” It fails. We knew Lindsay had pores because we have pores. And so do our sisters, friends and neighbors. The entertainment industry may feed us beautiful images every day but we are also exposed to the real deal in the office, at the grocery store, and in the mirror. We have been desensitized to epidermis.
If it is designed for us to trash the celebs in the comments section on the site, we won’t. What negative comments can we possibly make about Elizabeth Hurley’s looks? And why would we waste our time criticizing the supermodel who received the Humanitarian Award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, when we have a much bigger problem on our hands.
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With its Big Picture feature, the HuffPo proves it is out of touch with the average American woman. We don’t give a rat’s ass about some millionaire, Hollywood star with lipstick on her teeth. We are much more concerned that, oh say…hypothetically… our BFF tagged us in a photo where our eyes are shut, our chins are multiple and our outfit conjures up images of Debbie Gibson circa 1989.
Ladies, where’s the love?!?
