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Is feminism dead?

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Oh man. I feel like a have a serious case of deja vu . Yesterday, Kim Kardashian released another photo that caused controversy across the web. This time she was not nude, only topless , but still with a black strip covering her nipples, and this time she was not alone either. The photo also featured a topless (and very toned , might I add!) Emily Ratajkowski, a model and actress. Photo credit: Emily Ratajkowski Twitter Considering that Kim had a ) already done this before and b ) was considerably more covered up this time, you think there'd be less outrage about this particular photo. Oh, how silly of me to assume that people would have gotten over the whole " women have breasts " thing. Piers Morgan had to go and share his thoughts with us, didn't he? Unsurprisingly, they were just as ignorant as before. In fact, I think they were worse than before, because I had managed to ignore him and his comments when the first photo came around. Yesterday though,...

Zoella and Kimmy K- what's the difference?

Unless you spend your life far away from social media, you'll have seen the ' outrageous ' nude photo from Kim Kardashian a couple of weeks ago, and the ' outrageous ' photo of Zoella that featured the top of her pants that appeared earlier on this week. You can read more about the Kim selfie HERE . Long story short, it was a full body, nude shot with a black strip edited on to cover her vagina and nipples. Essentially, she was showing as much skin as she does when she wears a skimpy bikini. As a result of posting this selfie to her social media, she was subject to harsh comments , verbal abuse and criticism . Earlier on this week, Zoella posted a photo on social media site Snapchat, featuring herself lying in bed in a t-shirt and a pair of oh so popular Calvin Klein pants - of which you could only see the top, branded band, give or take a few millimetres. Whilst she got crticised and sexualised by numerous media outlets, she had a whole tribe of people- mo...