September 21, 2005
Waist Not, Think Not
by Lorraine Berry
Apparently, it's still fashionable for women to write articles in which they berate other women for their less-than-perfect bodies, even in lefty newspapers like the The Guardian. Instead of offering a critique of the wasp-waisted fashions that require a woman to aspire to an ideal that was only accomplished previously by wearing a corset, Ms. Spencer bemoans the loss of the natural womanly waist, and seems to alternatively blame it on using our brains too much (sitting in Starbucks and writing all day) or not exercising restraint at the dinner table. Either way, it's women's faults. We're less attractive as baby-making factories because we no longer have some idealized waist-to-hip ratio. And I need to read this in The Guardian why?
Posted by in Fashion, Gender, Sexual Politics, Sidelinks, W T F
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