Misogyny

[poliphilo]

OK- so it's wrong for women to be overweight.

And it's also wrong for them to be underweight. So wrong that Milan has banned skinny models from the catwalk and there are calls for them to be banned universally.

I don't know whether our society hates women or fears them or a bit of both but, whatever dark things are stirring in the collective psyche, what's happening out in the light is that women are getting bossed about- as usual.  Ooh, they don't know how to look after themselves, the sluts; let's teach 'em.

Sit up girls and take notice; daddy has something to say;  You've got to eat up everything on your plate or you don't get to go out to play.  Yes, even the broccoli. Especially the broccoli. I know it's tough, Samantha, but it's for your own good!

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

It's about control, I think- About punishing uppity women, dragging them down, keeping them on edge and feeling small. Look at the way the media went after Kate Moss. She was too big for her boots and they went all out to destroy her.

Instead of which, she is more famous and more in demand than ever before.

Go, Kate!

If a male rock star does cocaine and sex it's what male rock stars do; if a woman does it, it's "kill the bitch!"

Go, Kate, indeed!

[aftertorless.livejournal.com]

What bothers me most about this new mandate is that, to me, it seems like kind of a slap in the about-face to what the industry itself has essentially demanded that models look like in order to walk the catwalk in the industry's clothes. Spending countless years (since Twiggy, and of course reaching the apex with the whole "Heroin Chic" Moss period) and seasons sending potentially "too-thin" models down the walk, only to issue this ban on women of that exact same body type? Even those of us who love fashion have to sneer at the fickleness of the industry engendered by this new mandate. "Hello! Logic, anyone?! You can't promote one body type for nearly a half-century and then all of a sudden ban it!"

Re: Go, Kate, indeed!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes.

And of course the fashion bosses aren't being asked to change.

It's the poor bloody women getting slapped around- as usual.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. I have such a place in my heart for Kate. She really whatevered everyone. She and Martha Stewart, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think Kate's story is culturally significant. They dragged her down, she survived, she gave them the finger. When has this ever happened before?

Female celeb refuses to be a victim. It's a first.