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I know gossip reporting is not typically rooted in kindness and compassion - and without tabloids and blogger gossip, I wouldn't have much subject matter to inspire my illustrations and parodies here on GOTA. That being said, Holy Candy and I decided it was high time to collaborate on a Daily Mail parody. The UK's second largest daily newspaper, the Daily Mail has increasingly turned their focus toward conjuring up fear and disgust over the natural process of ageing. Unfortunately, this fear is focused mainly on women. Ageing men featured in the newspaper are fawned over, celebrated, and praised for looking so "natural". Women, on the other hand, are scorned for having veiny hands, wrinkles, cellulite and jowls. Often, a zoomed-in photo of the guilty body part is featured and Photoshop-enhanced to make it look even worse.
Holy Candy and I decided to see what would happen if Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, was placed under the same scrutiny as the female subjects featured in his newspaper. Just look at his deeply etched crow's feet. The marches of time have not been kind to his age-ravaged face. His veiny hands and pendulous pot belly reveal his true age, and his thinning wisps of grey hair and crooked yellow teeth are sure signs that Father Time is gaining on him. You would think with all that money he makes off bashing older women, he'd be able to afford hair replacement, botox, dental work, and liposuction. medium: photoshop. graphic assembled by 14, text written by Candy Kirby.
Next to you article your page hosts an add "Look 15 years younger! I reduced my wrinkles in days" ???? Who are you to talk.
Posted by: Observant | February 05, 2009 at 07:01 AM
That is fucking awesome!!!! Thank you both for doing that. It is so disgusting how glaringly obvious it is that it is practically a CRIME in this world for a woman to not look like a perfect, airbrushed cover girl wherever she goes. We live in a very sick, dysfunctional society - thank you both for being a voice of sanity, and doing it in such a brilliant way, I might add. Maybe you can find a shot of that Dacre old fossil in swimming trunks so we can see what an Adonis he looks like!
Posted by: JosiePie | December 13, 2007 at 03:33 PM
Dear 14,
Please continue to wage war on the daily mail, because this man is a fucking cunt.
Posted by: Demon Kitty | December 10, 2007 at 01:26 PM
You've made my day once again. Revenge is SO sweet!
It's a shame they continuously put fear into our hearts for naturally aging, but if they're going to be ageist bastards they should at least do that equally for both sexes.
Thank you 14 and Candy for making a proper retort to the insanity!
Posted by: cubezombie | December 10, 2007 at 08:43 AM
We're singing from the same hymnsheet, girlfriend...!
Posted by: Clair | December 10, 2007 at 04:55 AM
Cassie, you crack me up. No I don't want to visualise him shooting his load - I just ate.
I'm sooo gratified to learn there are others out there that get riled up about this sort of crap as much as I do. But what is really worrying to me is the scores of young women out there who join in the female bashing too. What happened to women being united against chauvinism and misogyny?
Posted by: frewtloop | December 09, 2007 at 08:47 PM
Bravo.
Posted by: Fairmaiden327 | December 09, 2007 at 07:45 AM
God/dess love you! About dang time.
Posted by: Amazing | December 07, 2007 at 04:24 PM
I just discovered this site and I have to say the work you do is brilliant. I will undoubtedly be linking to you heavily in the future.
Posted by: MK | December 07, 2007 at 02:08 PM
Bravo 14 and Holy Candy!
This is the reason why I hate Trump. I just don't understand why men think they are immune to this bullshit. I think any straight woman can identify with me when I say that the thought of a wrinkled, grisly, balding, pot bellied, motherfucker's orgasm face as he shoots his load! Ew!!!!! The prospect of this man shooting his load! Ew! Blech! Barf!
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Southern Mississippi, I was appalled at the double standard of beauty. Guys truly did not think it mattered a damn but what they looked like. If you had a vagina, you could never be beautiful enough. Even on TV, Drew Carey's girlfriend was too pretty for him!
I am so glad I am a lezbo. Lots of men get fucking scarey when they age! Have you ever seen and older guy with that look of horny excitement in his eye? It is fucking SCARY AS FUCKING HELL!!!!! They don't realize that they are not 16. When you get past 25, letting anyone know you have a boner on any level, no matter how subconscious is just fucking scary!
I agree with you Vernice.
Dear Lia, "honkey" and "cracker" really offend me.
Posted by: Demon Kitty | December 07, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Until this moment, I had not realized that you are a genius. This is GREAT!!!! Do it again on another a&#hole.
Posted by: cassie | December 07, 2007 at 09:06 AM
Excellent job. I despise the Daily Mail.
Posted by: Nanners | December 07, 2007 at 03:40 AM
You are my hero, 14, in so many ways. Keep it up!
Posted by: des | December 06, 2007 at 11:32 PM
Just me, but a bit too depressing to be funny.:/
Posted by: Becca | December 06, 2007 at 10:31 PM
I don't know... it's nice to try and make someone taste their own medicine, but honestly, if he were to see this, I'm afraid he'd just laugh. Beauty expectations for men are just nowhere near as high as they are for women (though this is changing somewhat), so to turn the tables on a man unfortunately doesn't come off with the same ferocity. Kind of like how lots of white people wouldn't be offended being called "honkey" or "cracker"; these words just don't correspond to any real-world discrimination.
Posted by: Lia | December 06, 2007 at 08:23 PM
I think celebrities (esp. in the UK) should carry around a copy of this to hold up next to their "flawed" faces when the paparazzi descends. Then we'll see if Mr. A-hole keeps zooming in for detail.
Posted by: Javelin | December 06, 2007 at 07:59 PM
Women are, in essence, bashed for not having the grace to die at 25. How dare women get old! Who gave them that right?!
Posted by: Victorian Veronica | December 06, 2007 at 07:26 PM
AWESOME - and I agree, thanks.
Posted by: Jahara | December 06, 2007 at 05:58 PM
Thank you for doing this.
Posted by: Siduri | December 06, 2007 at 05:43 PM
THANK YOU!!!
Revenge is so sweet---AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAH!
Posted by: Eize | December 06, 2007 at 05:31 PM
This is golden!
Posted by: Jess | December 06, 2007 at 04:13 PM
It's about time people reverse the attention from women to men as mere objects.
Posted by: midevil | December 06, 2007 at 03:30 PM
I cannot begin to express to you how deeply gratifying this was to see. I frequently browse the Daily Mail and lament over how often they bash aging women in their publication. They should put this on their front page.
Posted by: Kate | December 06, 2007 at 02:14 PM
I like this thread you're on. Up with real, fleshy, naturally aging women and down with the jackholes who put them down for committing the heinous crimes of being over 18 and eating more than a bite of celery and a tic tac for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day!!! Yay for 14 for joining forces with J. Lo. Hew (hee) to fight the cruel madness that attempts to make normal women hate themselves into starvation and mutilation to try to cram themselves into a mold that's way more than 2 sizes too small. Thank you, 14. We "aging fatties" need these posts. :)
Posted by: jerkygirl | December 06, 2007 at 01:24 PM
Thank you so much for this. The Daily Mail is the most hateful paper I have ever read, in ever aspect, not just on its frankly quite appalling ideas about feminine aging. I was in the dentists a few years ago, with nothing but a Daily Mail to read in the waiting room- I was flicking idly when I came across an article which stated, in essence, that men who choose to have plastic surgery, have their hair styled and even use male grooming products like moisturiser are effeminate, vain and a disgrace to their gender. Flicking to another section of the magazine, I read another "article" pouring scorn on Iman, who, looking stunning otherwise, chose to show a little cellulite on the beach. Flicking to Jeremy Clarkson's column, the most antiquated, misogynistic and reactionary of them all, I noticed him describing a fellow celebrity as a "lumpen old sow". This has always stuck in my mind as the archetypal Daily Mail, full of double standards, hysteria and craziness.
The overall message is, men can get as pot bellied, balding and hideous as the wish (Mr. Clarkson is doing a fantastic job) but the sight of a naturally aging woman is unbearable, and corrective measures should be taken against wrinkles, fat, stretch marks, etc. Don't be surprised that Mr. Dacre doesn't hold himself in the same lofty standards- after all, he's a man, therefore he is already good enough as he is.
The thing that strikes me as odd is the Daily Mail sneers on "low-brow" publications like Heat, and yet they're doing essentially the same thing as they are. Last thing I heard, the Mail was railing at the Spice Girls for turning Britain's young womenfolk into binge-drinking whores.
Posted by: Cici | December 06, 2007 at 01:14 PM
you are my hero for doing this. thank you. i am so sick of women always being critized by both men (and women). What the f--k are we supposed to do, get plastic surgery or stay natural? Either way, we're still screwed.
Posted by: sabina | December 06, 2007 at 12:44 PM
I actually don't mind when he bashes Madonna. Other than that he's a cunt. Thanks for the turn around. The sound you hear is the millions of women worldwide rejoicing at this piece!
Posted by: Vernice | December 06, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Ha! I love the photoshop-enhanced eye wrinkles. Isn't that exactly what they do to Madge's "disturbingly veiny" hands?
Posted by: Sloth | December 06, 2007 at 12:31 PM