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"Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky arse, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate."

the acid never lies wrote:

Judith Orr and Nina Power are pretty interesting on this. Orr in particular talks about 'raunch culture' and how products and commodities are often wrapped in the ideals of feminism but ultimately it is a promotion of 'individuality' - freedom for he individual, or rather freedom for the individual to express themselves in a limited way. However, women are expected to dress and act a certain way more so than men (why do some women feel uncomfortable if they are not wearing makeup?) so no I don't think fashion is particularly empowering - however it's better than men dictating how 'modestly' a woman should dress.

kay wrote:

the acid never lies wrote:

Judith Orr and Nina Power are pretty interesting on this. Orr in particular talks about 'raunch culture' and how products and commodities are often wrapped in the ideals of feminism but ultimately it is a promotion of 'individuality' - freedom for he individual, or rather freedom for the individual to express themselves in a limited way. However, women are expected to dress and act a certain way more so than men (why do some women feel uncomfortable if they are not wearing makeup?) so no I don't think fashion is particularly empowering - however it's better than men dictating how 'modestly' a woman should dress.

Regardless of whether it's a troll, in response to this, at my work place the tables are turned. It's the guys who are expected and held to certain standards of dressing (eg tie, shirt, trousers) and the women just turn up wearing whatever they want really as long as it isn't too shabby.

the acid never lies wrote:Where's that from?