The Palmer Effect

“I’m a guy, Amanda,” one record company exec reportedly told her. “I understand what people like.”

http://www.sacbee.com/122/story/1464608.html

In brief, or thong or whatever you like, Roadrunner, a record lable has Dissed the all powerful Amanda palmer. I mean What PR idiot did that? What person (man or woman aka The Man) would tell a woman proud and supper loud with a huge fan-base of similarly loud and wonderfully loving people that she’s too fat. Ha HA. Taking none of that she refused to delete the offending scenes. Warped body image is a disease, struggling with it myself since i understood the concept of sexuality i know first hand it is a crippling thing. Men and women alike are confused, befuddled, stricken with the idea that their body will never be good enough.  researchers are saying 86% of women….why that cant be right… is that in the US only… wow(www.edreferral.com). So women are unsatisfied with their bodies. as they have been for Quite some time. Do we blame the media? do we blame health nut parents? do we blame men? 

I blame myself. I believe We as a society deserve our neurosis. We create havoc in ourselves.

alright that aside here we are sitting in our living rooms catching the latest show, soaking in the delicious media in a numb fashion. I wonder What percent of parents talk to their children of what appears on comercials, what a deviant body is and why TV is not Reality. (Deviant bodies do not adhere to the cultural norm) Deviant bodies threaten the media in some way as displayed by Roadrunner’s actions. Their attempt to remove the offending “fat belly” from the Leeds United Video Created a moment of transparency, the impossible nature of thin, and the reality that images of average women are removed from our sight. Nowhere in the net have i seen a person speak out against her “chub” all positive comments are derived  from the  controversy, however the Audience of which this reaches is quite small. Those Aterna-punk-fem people are just too few to fight this one. so theres a website down there on the bottom of this post, The Rebellyion. take a picture of your belly and e mail it. Oh yes tell your friends, tell the Whole USA.  I HAVE CELLULITE AND FUCK YOU I LIKE IT. i don’t look like a thinly framed woman, why should I? 

A few small journals picked up the story online, other than that there has been no mention of this in the news

When the christian media/blogger hails Amanda as a hero for not giving in i was impressed, previous counts of harassment due to lyrical statements made of abortion or sex have put her in a negative light with said communities. Below again is a link to a great article reviewing her CD.

The rash of over photoshopped images is rather frightening. I believe Bodies are pushing, and pushing the media into a different direction, and the media is pushing back. So push you beautiful people and tell someone they look lovely. you would be surprised how few people take such a complement. Its my new Social experiment. Make it yours if you will.

 

Roadrunner Female musicians:

Amanda Palmer/dresden dolls

There IS one woman in Nightwish

Within Temptation

 

http://www.therebellyon.com/The_Rebellyon/Belly_Gallery/Pages/Belly_Shots%21.html

http://theoblogic.blogspot.com/2008/12/mind-amazing-amanda-palmer.html

http://www.cepagallery.org/exhibitions/deviant/index.html

 

And my Favorite

http://www.examiner.com/x-1823-Chicago-Indie-Music-Examiner~y2009m1d4-Singer-too-fat-to-promote-says-indie-label-fans-media-outraged

BECAUSE the Ad banner on the top was for a Rachel Ray loose belly fat system! talk about portraying women’s aveage bodies as a negative.