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Article Evaluations

 * 1) Everything in the article "female body shape" is relevant to the topic. Contributors talked about the history of the female body shape, how the ideal body shape has been seen in the past 100 years, and the most common ratio in women's bodies, though sometimes the discussion on the body ratios turned into a measure of ‘attractiveness’ which shows up a couple times throughout the article.


 * 1) The article is fairly neutral, citing many claims that came from relevant sources and only stating the facts. When giving opinions, the opinions are given through surveys and polls of women and men alike. The wiki editors do not use their own biases in this article. Some of the articles listed were not entirely neutral, and came from websites with very bias undertones. Articles such as Waistline worries, Turning Apples Back Into Pears”, while it comes from the National Women’s Health resource Center, is quite bias and suggesting that a pear body shape is bad, while the article is suggesting that it is just another body shape.
 * 2) Measurement and Size of female bodies are talking about through the entire article, with mentions of the way society has seen changes in the ideal body shape inserted in at times. It also talks about male sex preferences a couple times, which, while we are talking about the female body, does not seem entirely relevant.
 * 3) Most of the citations and links are relevant to the article, though some of the citations need "better sources" and some do not have citations at all. Some of the articles come from studies done at Universities, like BYU or the University of Illinois. On of the sources I clicked, directed me to a website with an article called "Abdominal Fat and What to do About It" which seems quite bias, even though the website itself was from Harvard's Heath.The Bias is not noted in the article. There are a couple instances of circular reasoning in the article, and many of the research articles talk about attractiveness as objective, while it really shouldn't be talked about at all.
 * 4) The information seems to be up to date. The articles are referencing the past 100 years of the ideal female body shape, and goes all the way up to the 21st century.
 * 5) There was at one time, a discussion to delete the article "female body shape" because it contained a lot of unsourced original research. while that is true, other people believed that the article had very relevant and true facts. They were not very bias, and the article was very thorough. Some argue however that those facts, like the ideal shape of a woman being 36-24-36 seems questionable. Someone noted that there was no corresponding ‘male body shape’ article to go along with the ‘female body shape’ Wikipedia page. There were also some factual problems, with one person saying that there is a difference (not stated in the article) about the size of a 32A bust and a 34C bust
 * 6) This article is part of WikiProject Anatomy, WikiProject Anthropology, WikiProect Sexuality, and WikiProject LGBT Studies, all rated C-Class

Whitewashing
I wanted to edit this article because I have heard a lot about white washing in the media and I want to contribute to that area of wikipedia. The article that was put down however, was only about paint whitewashing, not media whitewashing. Did the wrong article get linked? I would really like toI can add my research, of help people understand white washing, as it is something that interests me.

People who have made references to whitening in Brazil
In this section of "racial whitewashing" I can add Edward E Telles, who's article Racial Ambiguity Among the Brazilian Population looks at how the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics classifies 'whiteness' as well as how the interviewers conducting the census perceive those Brazilians being interviewed, and how it compares to how the Brazilians categorize themselves. He looks at both self classification of race in Brazil, and external classifications done by interviewers. He notes how the inconsistencies get portrayed and which one ends up in the IBGE census.

Results of Brazil's Whitening
Gilberto Freyre praised interracial partnerships and mating that occurred among the Brazilian population, because it popularized the notion that Brazil was a Racial democracy. Rather than seeing interracial matings as an attempt to whiten blood, he saw it as the foundation of Brazilian culture, interpreting it as evidence that Brazil lacked racial relations conflict.

Racial Whitening in 21st Century Brazil
A study was done by Chinyere K Osuji on how racial boundary Gender policing continue to marginalize Black-White couples in Brazil. Her study shows how race and class are intertwined in order to produce inequaliity among Brazilians in Interracial marriage s. Many interracial couples feel that their partnership is being stigmatized by outsiders. Black women are often Hypersexuality (hypersexualized) and black men are looked down upon for having married a white woman. The whiter Brazillians engage in oppressive othering by speaking or looking at others in ways that make them feel inferior.

There have been very few studies done on the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with racial whitening in Brazil.