https://twitter.com/SuzanneKelleher/status/842044157719920640
https://twitter.com/JAscariat/status/842068198916796416
https://twitter.com/BborDarb/status/842065792745242624
With Rachel Maddow’s Trump tax bombshell turning out to be a yuge bust, Slate’s gotta find something else to get worked up over.
This is apparently what they’ve settled on:
What’s going on with Gal Gadot’s armpits in the Wonder Woman trailer? https://t.co/qfzwyBq90X pic.twitter.com/nMdqqYDrhy
— Slate (@Slate) March 15, 2017
Slate editorial assistant Marissa Martinelli is determined to blow PitGate wide open:
Over the weekend, Warner Bros. dropped a brand new trailer for Wonder Woman, with Gal Gadot reprising her role as Diana of Themyscira. And while fans and critics alike have already dissected the trailer frame by frame, there’s one crucial detail that we still need to address: Gal Gadot’s armpits look … weird.
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It turns out that the internet is already plenty preoccupied with celebrity armpits in general, and with Gadot’s in particular, so it didn’t require that much digging to determine that in real life, Gadot’s pits are perfectly ordinary and are not, in fact, shielded by mysterious blobs of light. Heck, even elsewhere in the same trailer, when they’re not front and center, Gadot’s pits look totally normal. So why do they appear so strange at this particular moment? Is this just a trick of the light? Or perhaps the inevitable result of that combination of that ubiquitous orange and teal filtering and the low lighting that makes so many films and television shows look unbearably dark?
The simpler answer is that Gadot’s already-silky pits were probably digitally bleached in post-production, perhaps out of fear that we as moviegoers aren’t ready to see the creases of a woman’s unobscured armpit in close-up. You might be saying, Really, armpits?Is this seriously still happening in 2017? There’s certainly precedent: Just last year Maxim apparently airbrushed Priyanka Chopra’s armpits into Barbie-like smoothness for their July 2016 cover. Even so, it seems like an enormous waste of effort to recolor the underarms of Wonder Woman herself for a split-second scene, especially when the obvious editing is much more conspicuous than the unaltered lady pits alone could ever be.
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They are seriously suggesting that her armpits were "digitally bleached" because patriarchy. Yes, really. https://t.co/DaXSrW2VXS
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) March 15, 2017
Guess Salon was too busy to tackle this subject.
I can't believe this is a headline I had to read with my own two eyes.
— Kara Leavitt (@karalea16) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/BrettForrest89/status/842044876992700416
wtf is this ?
— Pedro (@pedrohco_) March 15, 2017
Is this journalism? To write an article about @GalGadot's armpits? pic.twitter.com/Opf5aGnPLi
— Not an optimist but.. (@Markus_Mattila) March 15, 2017
you really wrote an article about armpits pic.twitter.com/Az9VAbDWI6
— Rachel Jackson (@May_Jacks) March 15, 2017
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— Alex Marco (@TheAlexMarco) March 15, 2017
seriously??? pic.twitter.com/07V2vtk8hT
— aleena (@supercavill) March 15, 2017
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— Caped Baldy (@dukenukem777) March 15, 2017
— Emily (@fandomglam) March 15, 2017
Let’s all give Slate a big hand, shall we?
hard-hitting journalism
— Tyler Huxtable (@tyler_huxtable) March 15, 2017
top notch. Pulitzer Prize winning. 10/10. pic.twitter.com/H8XScWs6iC
— Trappist (@CallMeTopaz01) March 15, 2017
congratulations, have a pulitzer for this brave and necessary journalism
— lamp (@librarianjess) March 15, 2017
you win ! ? for the least important article ever.
— Nicole (@highmountainli2) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/Reamedout/status/842097827677405187
.@Slate Great contribution to society.
— Tyler Heberle (@TylerHeberle) March 15, 2017
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