It’s not very often that I’m so intrigued by a blog that upon discovering it for the first time, I feel compelled to comb through page after page of old posts. Sociological Images made me do just that. It’s written by a group of sociologists who deconstruct images in the popular media, and needless to say, they’re quite good at pointing out a lot of the misogyny that continues to run rampant throughout.

Sociologists are cool.

This post, in particular, got my blood boiling. Apparently, some folks at the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen got together and decided that classics like The Birth of Venus or Venus with the Apple just weren’t good enough the way they were - nope, that Venus bitch needed to lose some of the weight.

On a related note, I’ve also been loving Progress on the Prairie. I discovered it among this year’s crop of Okie Blog Award nominees, and with its mixture of art and feminism, it’s definitely a blog after my own heart.