This is a note we received from Jill Weiskopf at New York magazine through the Feminist Blogs contact form on 21 Ocotober 2009:
From: Jill Weiskopf
To: Feminist Blogs Web Team
Subject: The Cut: Grace Coddington Is Worried About How Young and Thin Models Are
Nymag.com’s The Cut blog attended Grace Coddington’s talk at the New York Public Library last night during which the Vogue creative director answered some tough questions about Ralph Lauren’s recent Photoshopping debacle and too-thin models in general:
“It is a big problem,” Coddington admitted. “I remember when I was young, they told me that if I didn’t lose weight I’d be out of the show, so I spent a week living off of coffee. But I’m a very levelheaded person. These problems nowadays are with kids much, much younger than that, and that’s most of the problem — when they’re very young and vulnerable.” Coddington feels Ralph Lauren is shouldering an unfair amount of the blame: “Most of his models are not super-skinny, so this is sort of an isolated situation, and I think it’s unfair if he gets a lot of bad publicity because of it. But it is a big problem in the fashion industry. And you go to meetings to discuss it, and you think it’s kind of futile, because it’s such a big thing, and in the end, people are always asking for more and they’re always asking for thinner.”
Read on at http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/10/grace_coddington_is_worried_ab.html
This is a brief note we received from an anonymous correspondent through the Feminist Blogs contact form on 14 August 2009.
From: Anonymous user
To: Feminist Blogs Web Team
Subject: PepsiMax ads
What’s up with the PepsiMax ads “Be a man. Make stuff.” running on gawkermedia sites (lifehacker, gizmodo, kotaku)?
Sent to the Feminist Blogs Web Team by the NOW National Action Center on October 6, 2009:
Get In The Streets! Tell Hollywood Rape IS Rape.
Was it rape, or was it rape? How about rape-rape? Does it make a difference when a convicted criminal pedophile and international fugitive happens to go by the name Roman Polanski?
In partnership with PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment, NOW urges all women, men, daughters, sons, sisters and brothers to join nationwide rallies outside movie theaters this Saturday, Oct.10, to support survivors of sexual violence and hold perpetrators accountable for their crimes.
Your participation is needed to send a strong message around the country:
- It’s unacceptable that someone is sexually assaulted in the United States every two minutes
- It’s outrageous that sexual assault victims are consistently second-guessed, and no wonder that an estimated 60 percent of sexual assault victims don’t report the crimes against them
- Women will not allow sexual assault to be belittled and ignored any more!
To participate in a rally, please see this list of confirmed cities and locations. To organize a rally in your own city, please e-mail Rape is Rape for an action kit and further assistance.
More Information
Rape IS Rape Official Web Site
Rape IS Rape Online Petition, GoPetition
Who signed the petition supporting Polanski?, SACD
