Comments on: Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kate Winslet http://womenandhollywood.com/2009/11/05/hollywood-feminist-of-the-day-kate-winslet/ from a feminist perspective Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:33:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Soirore http://womenandhollywood.com/2009/11/05/hollywood-feminist-of-the-day-kate-winslet/comment-page-1/#comment-5757 Soirore Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:11:51 +0000 http://womenandhollywood.com/?p=4053#comment-5757 I am actually not too impressed by Winslet's feminism. I am glad she won damages but she does more damage than benefit to womens body image issues in general. She was a fat teen and so I would expect her to be more critical of the narrow Hollywood concepts of what actresses should look like. But she embraces thinness and photoshopped magazine covers and unattainable images of beauty. There is the sense that she believes "that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are" but only when they are beautiful like her. I am actually not too impressed by Winslet’s feminism. I am glad she won damages but she does more damage than benefit to womens body image issues in general.

She was a fat teen and so I would expect her to be more critical of the narrow Hollywood concepts of what actresses should look like. But she embraces thinness and photoshopped magazine covers and unattainable images of beauty. There is the sense that she believes “that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are” but only when they are beautiful like her.

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