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Scanner Highs And Lows: Lovin' All The Bodies

By Brian Fairbanks on Apr 23rd, 2010

 

This week, the fashion world toyed with unretouched models and fought the good fight against network TV executives who fear we're not ready for "plus-size" lingerie vixens. Why was it this week, of all weeks, that things started to move in the right direction on this body image issue?

 

HIGHS:

Man, forget blondes; librarians do have more fun.

If this is truly an unretouched set of nude photos (of Kim Kardashian, another model, and the photographer herself), then maybe we're moving in the right direction.

High: Esquire named Christina Hendricks the "best-looking woman in America." Low: I put that in quotes because they named Adriana Lima their #3.

Regardless of your feelings for Sarah Silverman, the idea of her dropping the Sarah Silverman character for a straight-shooting memoir is pretty appealing.

Plus-size model Crystal Renn did another photo shoot. Without her panties.

And, in another sign the country may be moving in the right direction after all, Hollywood has announced it's tired of boob jobs.

 

LOWS:

We needed another reminder that people are dumb.

We've been trying to tell you people not to take sex advice from Fox News, but it needed to be said again.

Michelle "Bombshell of a Sex Scandal" and Jaime Jungers have been paired up for a TV show. After the obvious first episode, what are these two going to talk about? 

We're big fans of free speech and all, but can we just ban Scott Baio and his equally-loony wife from Twitter for abusive language or something?

Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop.

Thanks to the recent domestic drama in his life, now we have to find out Larry King might be a "sex freak." Thanks, stupid internet.

Comments ( 2 )

Good week. I'm off to the library to meet a librarian.

Dan commented on Apr 23 10 at 5:34 pm

How incredibly audacious of Kim Kardashian to elevate perfectly toned, thin, curvy women as beautiful for the first time ever in history. They've been so marginalized until now. (Please note sarcasm.)

Seriously, kudos to anyone for doing unretouched photos but can we please stop pretending that women like Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, and Beyonce are in any way outside the female beauty standard box? Kim Kardashian is very slim with a small waist, curvy hips, and medium-to-large breasts. She's got a beautiful, perfect, socially acceptable body that many women would like to have and never will. I'm really tired of female celebrities whose careers are largely based on the fact they are beautiful claiming to be dark horses who are speaking up for the masses of marginalized women just because they happen to have discernible asses.

TenarGoha commented on Apr 23 10 at 7:17 pm

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