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"bike beautiful" event at BICAS
detritus posted a photo:
I find the Bike Beautiful Tucson concept and website problematic and somewhat creepy..
This local photographer basically likes to take sexy photos of girls on bikes around town and create sort of a brand about that, having events like rides and selling products like t-shirts. I guess it's sort of borderline but it feels disturbing to me and some others i've talked to.
Where does celebration of "beauty" end and valorization of certain body type begin? where does appreciation of beauty end and exploitation begin? This brings up the larger question of what exactly "sex positive" means or might mean and whether it really counts as a form of feminism or not.
look at his site and think about it for yourself and get back to me on what you think.
tucsonbikebeautiful.blogspot.com/
take a special look at
tucsonbikebeautiful.blogspot.com/2010/01/reina-and-dana.html
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Steev, W/o knowing the
Steev,
W/o knowing the photographer personally we can only guess at his intentions butafter viewing the photos on the site you suggested I'd say perhaps he's just going for the old adage that 'sex sells'. It is in almost every form of advertisng whether cars, clothes, hair care products etc. so if it helps promote BICAS and bring attention to the work they are doing it is probably just another tool. The photographer, however, maybe a tool himself for using these methods, but that's another story.