This is actually kind of funny — in a "hmmm, should I be chuckling over this, or grinding my teeth?" kind of way. On the one hand, it is stock photography, which is almost always gooftastic. On the other hand, that means it's the imagery being used in all sorts of professional magazines (and websites) associated with feminism, which is sending some sort of message to at least someone. (h/t Charlie Stross)
How to be a feminist according to stock photography
Ladies, you may think you’re feminists, but it turns out you’re probably doing it all wrong… The folks over at NY Mag use a lot of stock photos in their business. They also have a lot to say about women’s rights. So naturally, from time to time, they use…
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Queer…many staunch feminists are male…
Yea, it certainly doesn't look like most real feminists I know – us older, fatter, plainer people.
+Art Divine India – A good point.
+Paula Jones – Stock photography is generally just about beautiful-but-cute almost-always-younger, perky-quirky-but-not-scary people. Older people in the pix are either hip-friendly or distinguished..
Trimming toenails with an angle-grinder??? Yikes!!!
@Tim – But, don’t you get it, it’s FUNNY! (But not what I’d call a feminist image; anything but.)
Well, if the stock photography firm goes under, the models can always get jobs in a department store catalog.
(A catalog. It's a big printed book with pictures of the items sold by the department store.)
I hear that the boxing woman in business attire is having a fling with the man in boxer shorts who is smiling while contorting himself.