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Ann Simonton is an American feminist activist and media critic. She is the founder and director of the nonprofit organization Media Watch, which works to challenge the objectification of women in the media. She is also the author of the book Beauty and the Beast of Advertising: Challenging the Culture of Violence Against Women. Simonton was born in 1952 in San Francisco, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a degree in psychology. After college, she worked as a psychiatric social worker in the San Francisco Bay Area. Simonton's activism began in the late 1970s when she became involved in the anti-nuclear movement. She was also a founding member of the Women's Pentagon Action, a group of women who protested the nuclear arms race. In the early 1980s, Simonton founded Media Watch, an organization dedicated to challenging the objectification of women in the media. Through Media Watch, Simonton has organized protests, written articles, and produced educational materials to raise awareness about the negative effects of media images on women. Simonton has also been a vocal critic of the beauty industry. She has written extensively about the dangers of cosmetic surgery and the pressure to conform to unrealistic beauty standards. Simonton is the author of the book Beauty and the Beast of Advertising: Challenging the Culture of Violence Against Women. She has also written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Simonton is currently 71 years old.
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Simonton became a radical feminist activist, and has been arrested and jailed 11 times for committing acts of non-violent civil disobedience. In the 1980s, she and Nikki Craft led the "Myth California" protests, a series of counter-pageants which accused the Miss California pageant of contributing to "the objectification of women and the glorification of the beauty myth." Simonton wore various meat outfits in these protests: one of baloney in 1982, skirt steak in 1985, and turkey slices in 1987. In 1987 she shaved off all her bleached blond hair in front of the pageant venue in San Diego to protest "racist attitudes" in the pageants. The protests garnered international attention, and were partially responsible for the Miss California pageant relocating from Santa Cruz to San Diego, California.
Simonton began as a fashion model in Los Angeles and vaulted to the top of the modelling world in New York City in the early 1970s. On June 24, 1971, she was gang raped at knifepoint in Morningside Park on her way to a modeling assignment. This event informed her activism to help end sexual assaults on women.
Simonton worked as a Ford fashion model in the 1970s.
Ann J. Simonton (born 1952) is an American writer, lecturer, media activist, and former fashion model. She founded and coordinates the non-profit group "Media Watch", which challenges what they see as racism, sexism, and violence in the media through education and action. Simonton has published two autobiographical chapters, I Never Told Anyone and Her Wits About Her. She has also written and produced two educational videos, one of which, Don't Be a TV: Television Victim, received a Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Video and Film Festival in 1995.
