Readers, you may or may not have noticed last week that stock photography was the news, rather than simply illustrating it in a staged, artfully lighted way. (There was a lot going on last week, what with the Olympics and Valentine's Day and that pic of Bart Yasso wearing "Daisy Dukes.")

Just to bring everyone up to speed: Getty Images, working with LeanIn.org, released some 2,500 new stock photos intended to show women in a more "dynamic," and less stereotypical, fashion. Wait! Poor choice of words! We didn't mean to imply that women are inordinately concerned with "fashion"! We're sorry! We meant to say, "in a more 'dynamic,' and less stereotypical manner."

According to a report on NPR.org:

Getty's director of visual trends, Pamela Grossman, says that with women as the primary users of social media, it was time for a different kind of representation in media and advertising.

"Virtually every conversation I've been having at least for the last three years has been our clients asking for these much more authentic images that don't feel posed or staged or contrived in any way, but that actually feel much more relatable," she tells NPR's Renee Montagne. ...

"I think [in the past] there's been a lot of women in power suits with boxing gloves or women in stiletto heels stepping on men," she says, "and that's definitely the kind of work that we are aggressively shifting away from."

Remy's World applauds this move, both as a champion of women's rights and a frequent purchaser of stock photos. In fact, we hope that this is just the beginning. Because regrettable stock images of women abound -- even when it comes to running.

For starters, just look at the 10 photos we've collected here...

AWFUL!

This "runner's" hands are clenched way too tightly. And the left one is clutching an invisible microphone. Possibly so the model can announce, "This pose strains credulity."

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Apparently some sadistic photographer's assistant has gaffer-taped this poor woman's right elbow to the back of her shirt. Why?

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You can smile this broadly while running, or you can have form this terrible, but you can't do both. Also, the shoes.

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We found this image by searching for "manic" + "demented" + "full makeup" + "fake running."

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Everyone knows that runners don't wear head-to-toe black in the daylight. That's for night-time running.

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[blank stare]

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Tying their shoes elicits laughter, eh, stock photographer? Women are this easily amused? We think not.

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This isn't "running." This isn't even "pretending to run." This is "pretending to be underwear-clad Stepford Wife chucking herself on the chin."



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"This is running, right? I think I saw someone running once. In a movie. By the way, thanks for letting me model even with this crick in my neck."



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We can't even-- Well, wait. OK, this one isn't that awful. We often pause midrun to execute this very move.

Mark Remy Mark Remy has been with Runner’s World since January 2007—for the first 5 ½ years as executive editor of RunnersWorld.com, and currently as a writer at large.

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