On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Sarah <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 19:27,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lots of us old hippie women are exhibitionists and I could advertise and
> > get a few of us to pose. Then the young guys would have to discuss
> > whether the 19 year old or 60 year old breast/nude/buttock etc. is more
> > appropriate for an article.
> >
> > Hope that also engenders a good laugh....
> >
> > Carol in dc
> >
> It's actually a serious point, though. It would be great to provide
> images for those articles that don't portray women the way certain men
> want to see them portrayed. I recall the Body Shop did that a couple
> of decades ago -- started using images of women that fell outside the
> usual range that tended to be objectified (older, not thin, etc). They
> produced some very good ads as a result. The difficulty for us would
> be in finding those images, then in maintaining them on the pages.
>

Yes, I remember this, too.

Sydney
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