Rule: flatter shoes can be as chic as towering torture chambers
ladythestripper:
clownyprincess:
The loathsome Maggie Alderson (Australian-based author of chic-lit, prior editor of several fashion magazines and a self-proclaimed feminist) has written a misogynistic and grotesque column where she polices exaggerated-feminine fashion styles, is whorephobic and transphobic, and reduces Dita Von Teese’s worth as a human being to the type of shoes she occasionally wears.
Several of my friends and I posted comments critiquing her and in an act of prejudice, she is moderating them - while allowing comments that praise her and engage in similar woman-hating rhetoric - to go through.
SO.
I’m reposting mine and my friends’ comments here. I encourage you ALL to go and add your critiques, and reblog this post with them included. There’s a twitter hashtag going - #maggiealderson - where I urge everyone to expose her prejudice.
This kind of woman-hating crap being passed off as feminism is insulting to everyone.
(Starlet)
As a Stripper and Burlesque Performer and mother, I was so put off by your ‘proud old school feminist’ ideals. From the very first sentence in this article, you have insulted my life, my choices, my art, all I hold dear.
And you call yourself a Feminist?
Was this supposed to be a serious article? Do you actually get paid to do this? Gossip and Police what others wear?! And you think all strippers and burlesque performers have been somehow MK Ultra-ed into Sex Kitten Programming?…. (are you serious about the whole Fundamentalists ‘men’ and ‘mental’? do some research into etymology PLEASE!)
If you want to self identify as a Feminist, maybe you should search a little deeper into what that means.
We are meant to be sisters. We are meant to help each other up, not pull everyone down. We should be breaking the patriarchy and dispelling rape culture and legalising abortion and educating others and a million other things other than what your article does.
You are hurting people by doing this. Just think a little harder about what you are saying.
And here’s MY lovely comment!
I love how, instead of giving critique on just her fashion, you critique her entire lifestyle and insult her career choice, despite the fact that all of the images you posted were irrelevant to the burlesque she is known for. As an art student, rule #1 in critiquing: CRITIQUE THE ART, NOT THE PERSON. This blog post went far from actual fashion criticism to old-fashioned slut-shaming.
Old-school feminists like you amuse me in the fact that you think that you support women’s rights, yet you reject any female who isn’t as modest as you. There is a difference between a girl who whores herself out for attention and insecurities and a girl who does it out of pride and as a career because it’s less of an action for others and more of an action for themselves.
After all, isn’t it fair to let a woman decide what she does with her body? After all, this reflects old school mentality that rejected any ankles to be showing, or else they’d be called a whore. And by that mentality, still to this day leaves people afraid to report a rape out of being told by a police officer that she deserved it for wearing a tank top, and therefore it ‘wasn’t rape’. Anyone who knows any goddamn thing about sex crimes, or feminism for that matter, would know that rapists will attack those in modest clothing.
Stripping can be empowering for most girls, because they feel confident and proud that for once, out of a society of media telling them otherwise, they can feel good about the way they look. Perhaps it disgusts you that she’s proud that her confidence is boosted by men, but she wasn’t going to get that confidence from anyone else. Sorry to say, but women like you are the reason why so many women hate the way they look. It’s difficult to get women to unite against discrimination if all they’re doing is being catty about what the other is wearing or what they look like.
In fact, most men don’t even notice the flaws that a girl will so easily pick out. I enjoy fashion, but did you ever stop to think that maybe critiquing how a woman dresses AND the way they live their life, is sexist to begin with?
My two cents.
(via clownyprincess)
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