“[D]espite their tattoos, hair coloring, and creative piercings, [Suicide Girls] fall neatly within the confines of mainstream beauty standards. Imagine giving the varsity cheerleading squad makeovers at Hot Topic, and you wouldn’t be too far off. Most of the models here (and on other indie-porn sites, too) are thin, white, and traditionally beautiful. Fat girls — hell, even average plump girls — aren’t Suicide Girls, and with only a couple of exceptions, neither are girls of color. It’s not that punk and indie scenes are devoid of these women, so their apparent exclusion from the site suggests that Suicide Girls and others aren’t seeing the alternatives in “alternative.” There’s a certain kind of hypocrisy in a site that pats itself on the back for being “different,” yet seems to equate that only with being different from others featuring blond Pamela Anderson…”
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Bitch Magazine, Sex, Dreads and Rock’n’Roll. (via anarchyagogo)
Haven’t read the full articule, but I have serious problems with Suicide Girls for the above reasons. They also have tagged their photos as thinspo. So there’s that…
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yeah I agree.
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