Posts Tagged ‘boobs’
ABC News Story on Showing Boobs Won’t Show Boobs
ABC News has picked up the story of local ABC affiliate WJLA’s series on breast cancer detection. WJLA has courted national media attention for its decision to televise a local woman’s self breast exam, un-draped, un-blurred, and unedited. ABC News, for one, remains committed to blurring the boobs: “for our purposes, we are showing it without any full nudity,” the segment explains.
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WJLA’s Breast Cancer Report Won’t Blur Boobs
Tonight and tomorrow, WJLA will air a four-part series on breast exams called “Touch of Life: The Guide to Breast Self Examination.” The series will show real women performing breast exams—and it’s not going to blur out their boobs.
Weed Culture Is Boob Culture
Why aren’t there more female marijuana activists, Marijuana Policy Project employee Laura Greenback asks in High Times. Ooh! Pick me! I know the answer!
It’s not that women don’t like smoking weed. We do. And it’s not that we don’t care about the ass-backwards war on drugs—despite Greenback’s fears, half of the MPP’s top staff are women. It’s not that there are too few pop-culture stoner females, as Double X suggests—though we’re getting warmer!
How to Sell Beer: Less Beer, More Boob
“DAS Best Oktoberfest,” the German-ish drinking festival which hits National Harbor, Md., on Sept. 26, is all about the beer. But how does one market this “beer”? Easy: Take a photo of a woman holding beer, cut off her neck and head, then cut off the beer. I know I need a beer right about now!
Huffington Post Swimsuit Edition Goes Gender-Neutral
The Huffington Post’s latest foray into celebrity eye-candy linkbait, “Iconic Swimsuit Movie Moments,” comes in two flavors: Male and Female.
The Huffington Post, it seems, has tired of just fetishizing female bodies, and has moved onto more equal-opportunity objectification. Since it’s too much to ask for a Web site to refrain from objectifying any humans, is this a cause for celebration?
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Public Breast-Feeding: What the Nursing Bib Means for the Right to Bare Breasts
Nothing to see here: Laseinde wants newborns to suck and cover.
Ella Laseinde is accustomed to seeing strangers’ breasts. “I’m a mammographer, so I’m with the breasts constantly,” says Laseinde, 71, who spent 30 years in government service—including five at the National Institutes of Health screening women’s chests. That’s not to say she’s interested in catching sight of stray bosoms outside the office. “I think in today’s time, they need to cover,” Laseinde says of nursing mothers. “There are so many people walking around who can catch a look.”
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CODEPINK Mother’s Day Camp Out, Now With More Boobs
Remember that 24-hour sleepover CODEPINK is staging outside of the White House this weekend? I forgot to mention the most important part:
Boobs.
Co-sponsored by CODEPINK and Breasts not Bombs, the event will now include a call-to-breasts. Breasts not Bombs is inspired by a Mendocino, Cali. woman who, while “celebrating 4th of July at a local park, removed her shirt to dance in the warm summer sun.” This weekend, women will descend upon D.C. to bare their breasts in order to “reclaim the definition of Indecency and stand for mothers and children all over the world whose daily lives are ruined by continued warmongering and profiteering.”
Presser is after the jump.
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Pro-Gay Beauty Pageant Still A Fucking Beauty Pageant
Yesterday, Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto took five minutes out of their busy schedules to skewer anti-gay-marriage Miss California Carrie Prejean after the “news” broke that the Miss California Organization had paid for Prejean’s breast implants. Olbermann and Musto choose to shame Prejean by tearing into her body—riffing on boobs as “performance enhancers,” saying the Miss California Organization’s comments “added saline to the wound,” and comparing her breasts to basketballs.
A blogger at the Conservative XPress responded to the Olbermann segment, writing, “Anyone know of any women’s rights groups defending this woman yet? Nope? Didn’t think so.”
I’ll do it.
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Breast Practices: Insider Tips from D.C.’s Greatest Erotic Photo Hunter
Caught in the headlights: Earl is master of the Hunt.
Show Earl a photo of a topless woman, and he’ll respond like most heterosexual men—sure, he’ll take a look at the boobs. Show Earl two photos of a topless woman, and he’ll ditch the boobs—that’s an amateur move—and look for the color of her thong, the pattern of her rug, or how many eyes her dog has.
Earl is a connoisseur of Erotic Photo Hunt, an electronic bar game that puts a bawdy twist on the “spot the difference” puzzles that fill out kids magazines or the comics page. The rules of Erotic Photo Hunt are simple. Drop in a quarter. Choose “Babes” or “Hunks.” Inspect two photos of the same soft-core pinup, identical except for five Photoshopped differences. Touch all the variations before time runs out, and you advance to the next round. Each round is faster than the last. Never go straight for the boobs—differences are most likely to reveal themselves in the less titillating areas of the screen, like foliage, motorcycles, or pets.
“It’s like playing the one-eyed monster,” says Earl, a semi-retired mechanic who prefers to go by his first name. “You just put your money in, and it just takes it and stares back at you—challenging you.”
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Everything’s Bigger South of the Border
Mexico: Home to wonders of the ancient world. Behold: Mayan ruin Chichen Itza.
Laser light show nightly at seven.
Mexico is also home to wonders of the modern world. Observe:
