Week 7? How is that possible?

Title has absolutely nothing to do with the articles, just cannot believe its almost done.

The bikini article was amazing, I was so in the dark ABOUT the dark history of the famous and popular bathing suit choice so many women choose to wear on the beaches and poolside venues in today's society. What a shame, the entire story really was a downer, but so interesting. This is the first time I really sat back and realized that surfing, fashion, it's culture and history are interconnected. It was no surprise to me that the United States was such a jerk, kicking out the indigenous people of the Bikini Atoll (no idea where that happened before, and again in our history as a country). It was pretty disturbing to think that the people who represented us at this time, much like they do now, thought they could buy off the native people with a lousy trust, and then continued to do so when the claims of radiation causing birth defects and illness came about by the Bikinians.
Another thing that disturbed me about the article (in the best way possible) was that women were used as fashion propaganda to distract civilians from what was going on the in the Pacific Islands:

"The bikini, as it was christened, celebrated the Allied efforts in World War II. Fashion historians have noted that Euro- pean vogues in revealing clothing tend to coincide with periods of war.

Fashion is always at its most provocative during or after times of war, for the excellent reason that, from the woman's point of view, there is more than a good chance of a lot of eligible males turning up their toes at any minute (one night at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball, the next day carnage at Waterloo) so speed is of the essence in the sexual come-on message. (Glynn 1982, 96)4

Clothing and fashion, of course, can be manipulated by both individuals and society. An individual woman may choose to expose her body for attention, but society also has investments in such display. In the context of war, society has an ideological stake in the reification of female bodies when male bodies are being sacrificed heroically."