{"id":1720,"date":"2009-03-29T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-03-29T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:43:56","slug":"the-lourdes-project-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-lourdes-project-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lourdes Project II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes-new-look.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1721\" title=\"lourdes-new-look\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes-new-look-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes-new-look.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes-new-look.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2008\/05\/30\/the-lourdes-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remember<\/a> when we all admired&nbsp;\u00a0 her unibrow and moustache? Lourdes has evidently succumbed to either societal pressure or her mother&#8217;s obsession with beauty procedures. Here they are arriving in Malawi to purchase a new child.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago, Lourdes was still sporting the natural look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1722\" title=\"lourdes1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes1-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/vhosts\/godammit.com\/httpdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes1.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/vhosts\/godammit.com\/httpdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lourdes1.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Lourdes is a beautiful girl, but it would have been nice for young women to have a new role model in the Frida Kahlo tradition. I just hope it was Lourdes who made the decision to go for the clean shaven look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/madonnas-face-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1723\" title=\"madonnas-face-work\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/madonnas-face-work-300x232.jpg?resize=300%2C232\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/madonnas-face-work.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/madonnas-face-work.jpg?w=531&amp;ssl=1 531w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your mom filled her face up with Sculptra and botox, you might have conflicted feelings about beauty and its importance. On the left, above, I see a woman who has drunk from Life&#8217;s Cup. On the right, I see a woman who has siphoned the Cup into her cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>By this time tomorrow, Lourdes may have a new little sister. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not really colonialism on Madonna&#8217;s part to enlarge her family by plucking children from Africa. She&#8217;s just trying to save Malawi, for god sake! As she explained to Vanity Fair, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t choose Malawi. Malawi chose me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we all admired&nbsp;\u00a0 her unibrow and moustache? Lourdes has evidently succumbed to either societal pressure or her mother&#8217;s obsession with beauty procedures. Here they are arriving in Malawi to purchase a new child. Six months ago, Lourdes was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-lourdes-project-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[139,163,218],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-rK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}