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I’m a writer and an artist, and I have a master’s degree in social psychology. I’ve just completed my first book: If Beauty Is Inside, Why Do We Hate Our Guts?: Pop Culture, Sexism, & Body Image. In my book and website, I examine how the media treat women’s bodies as if they’re our most valuable attribute – and how we buy into it. I argue that this constant stream of sexist and degrading imagery undermines both our social and political power, and I offer ways to reclaim that power.
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- Website: http://www.BeautyIsInside.com
Twitter: @_BeautyIsInside
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beauty-Is-Inside/171908146175659
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Soon-to-be-released book: If Beauty Is Inside, Why Do We Hate Our Guts?: Pop Culture, Sexism, & Body Image
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- Nonfiction, Blog Posts
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Nancy Lynne Kanter's Blog
SLUT: See Limbaugh, Unevolved Troglodyte
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:34pm 3 Comments 2 Likes
Rush Limbaugh has been all over the news since his misogynistic rant about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who testified before Democratic members of Congress about birth control coverage being a necessary part of women’s health. His rant went on for over three days, during which he called her a “slut” and a “prostitute,” along with about 50 other insults. Apparently,…
Continue Super Sexism - Not Buying It
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:29pm 1 Comment 1 Like
Unlike most commercials, those that air during the Super Bowl are ones that people actually want to watch. These $3.5-million-per-30-second-time-slots can be opportunities for companies to be clever, maybe even inspiring … but instead, many insist on falling back on lazy and uninspired sexist clichés. This is so expected in fact, that MissRepresentation.org, a campaign named…
Continue Who Put the "us" in Uterus?
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:53pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
A significant component of being confident in our own skin is honoring and respecting our bodies. It’s in recognizing that our bodies are sacred — that they belong to no one but ourselves. That they’re private property, and no one has the right to trespass. That no one has the right to touch them without our permission or to tell us what to do with them. That others’ opinions of our bodies are…
Continue Real Women Have ... Bodies
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The other day, my friend shared this image on my Facebook wall. I’m sure she had good intentions, as did the creator. At first glance, it seems like a girl-power-feel-good-kind-of-message that challenges the pressure to be thin, similar to the “real women have curves” mantra made popular by…
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Clene` S. Elder commented on the blog post 'SLUT: See Limbaugh, Unevolved Troglodyte'
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SLUT: See Limbaugh, Unevolved Troglodyte
Rush Limbaugh has been all over the news since his misogynistic rant about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who testified before Democratic members of Congress about birth control coverage being a necessary part of women’s health. His rant went on for over three days, during which he called her a “slut” and a “prostitute,” along with about 50 other insults. Apparently, each of those insults has now…See More
Allyson Whipple commented on the blog post 'Super Sexism - Not Buying It'
"Geez. You know, I had enough of a beef with Jillian Michaels for being one of the trainers on a show that promotes unhealthy methods of weight loss. Now this? Ugh.
It makes me so very sad that society doesn't seem to be progressing very far at…"
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Nancy Lynne Kanter posted a blog post
Super Sexism - Not Buying It
Unlike most commercials, those that air during the Super Bowl are ones that people actually want to watch. These $3.5-million-per-30-second-time-slots can be opportunities for companies to be clever, maybe even inspiring … but instead, many insist on falling back on lazy and uninspired sexist clichés. This is so expected in fact, that MissRepresentation.org, a campaign named after the…See More
Nancy Lynne Kanter posted a blog post
Who Put the "us" in Uterus?
A significant component of being confident in our own skin is honoring and respecting our bodies. It’s in recognizing that our bodies are sacred — that they belong to no one but ourselves. That they’re private property, and no one has the right to trespass. That no one has the right to touch them without our permission or to tell us what to do with them. That others’ opinions of our bodies are irrelevant. Every human being has this right — the right to bodily autonomy. But lately, that right is…See More
Nancy Lynne Kanter posted a blog post
Real Women Have ... Bodies
The other day, my friend shared this image on my Facebook wall. I’m sure she had good intentions, as did the creator. At first glance, it seems like a girl-power-feel-good-kind-of-message that challenges the pressure to be thin, similar to the “real women have curves” mantra made popular by the movie of the same name. It seems to be about women celebrating their curves, accepting their bodies, and not buying into the extreme…See More
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Whorin' Ain't Easy
In pop culture, a whore is demonized — she’s a woman who sells her body for money, a prostitute. She’s promiscuous and immoral. She’s unclean — she’s a dirty whore, a filthy whore. She’s damaged goods and the opposite of virgin. It’s a bad thing to “whore yourself out” or to be anyone’s bitch. A Google image search for “whore” will bring up lots of porn (so make sure your SafeSearch is on) and quite a few demotivational posters about “attention whores”. The whore doesn’t have much power — she’s…See More
M. Eileen Bohrer commented on the blog post 'Sara Smile … I Said SMILE, Dammit!'
"YES! This really resonates with me."
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Nancy Lynne Kanter commented on the blog post 'Sara Smile … I Said SMILE, Dammit!'
"Sarcasm Goddess - That's awful, and unfortunately makes my point. How dare he command you to do anything, and then insult you for failing to obey him! What a jackass. And what a sense of entitlement.
Cathy - Thanks for the link. :)…"
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