[Gendergap] Pregnancy article lead-image RFC

[Fred Bauder]

> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 19:27,  <carolmooredc at verizon.net> 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.
>
> Sarah

The concept of "being objectified" needs to be explained to the community
and incorporated into our style guides. This has to make sense rather
than being misunderstood.

Fred