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	As if his portrayal of Spock weren’t enough

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5-14-2007 2:23 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/20991154-d67d-46fd-879b-afcd4bb96ee4/890F88E2-4D98-47F3-B746-FF89C83830D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/" href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.feministe.us</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.feministe.us/img/A91A2AEF-C13B-4453-97F5-CBCF4D2E3423" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/"><P><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/fashion/13nimoy.html?em&ex=1179201600&en=98fd2b3961d88bae&ei=5087%0A">Leonard Nimoy, photographer, has been studying the fat female nude for the past eight years</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/"><P>And?  He <EM>gets it</EM>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/">He has a show of photographs of obese women on view at the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Mass., through June; a larger show at the gallery is scheduled to coincide with the November publication of his book on the subject, “The Full Body Project,”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/"><P>These women are not hiding beneath muumuus or waving from the bottom of the Grand Canyon à la Carnie Wilson in early Wilson Phillips videos. They are fleshy and proud, celebrating their girth, reveling in it. It is, Mr. Nimoy says, a direct response to the pressure women face to conform to a Size 2.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/">The average American woman,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/">weighs 25 percent more than the models who are showing the clothes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/">So, most women will not be able to look like those models</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/05/13/as-if-his-portrayal-of-spock-wasnt-enough/">the cruelest part of it is that these women are being told, ‘You don’t look right.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/890F88E2-4D98-47F3-B746-FF89C83830D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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