The ‘arm vagina’ – Hollywood’s latest form of female self-flagellation

FULL STORY by Gaby Hinsliff: The GUARDIAN.....

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Men in real life don’t go around sexually rejecting women solely on the grounds that their armpits could have been a bit more toned. No sane person ever chose a film to watch on this basis. All moral qualms aside, there’s not even an obvious commercial imperative to making actors feel quite this paranoid. So why do the fashion, film and media industries still contrive to make women feel there’s something gross and hateful about their very flesh, the space they occupy in the world?

The way Hollywood exercises power over women has been a hot topic since the first allegations against Harvey Weinstein emerged, and yet we have in some ways been slow to join the dots between individuals’ behaviour and the culture in which this power came to seem almost normal. It’s striking how many of Weinstein’s victims say that before he lunged, he would tell an actor or model that she could do with losing a few pounds.