Comments on: Introduction To Fashion Week http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:46:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: d.e.i.x.i.s. http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3092 d.e.i.x.i.s. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3092 Corset piercing! I love those. I know a local Suicide Girl who has one & it's really hot. It's just so impractical because they will inevitably reject & then you just have some nasty back scars. But it's cute while it does last! [feel free to shred that paragraph] As for the rest of it, I'd be lying if I said I didn't agree. I'm just not prepared to stop expressing my affiliation with a particular cult or my loyalty to consumerism. Corset piercing! I love those. I know a local Suicide Girl who has one & it’s really hot. It’s just so impractical because they will inevitably reject & then you just have some nasty back scars. But it’s cute while it does last!

[feel free to shred that paragraph]

As for the rest of it, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t agree. I’m just not prepared to stop expressing my affiliation with a particular cult or my loyalty to consumerism.

]]> By: AndiF http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3093 AndiF Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3093 It's official -- I am an old fart. I think that corset piercing has got to be the stupidest, ugliest, and most pathetic surrender to the patriarchy I've ever seen (yes, it's an exaggeration and I don't care) and that anyone who tries to justify by claiming that it is a ironic statement about fashion/the patriarchy is suffering major self-delusion (along with self-mutilation). It’s official — I am an old fart.

I think that corset piercing has got to be the stupidest, ugliest, and most pathetic surrender to the patriarchy I’ve ever seen (yes, it’s an exaggeration and I don’t care) and that anyone who tries to justify by claiming that it is a ironic statement about fashion/the patriarchy is suffering major self-delusion (along with self-mutilation).

]]> By: emjaybee http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3094 emjaybee Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3094 I have inadvertantly not been a fashion follower because truly fashionable clothes don't really exist in my shape/price range. If it's exploitation of the Third World that's bad, though, you don't have to follow fashion to be guilty of that...even the least hip piece of clothing you own was probably sewn by a Malaysian 10 year old. You can't even sew your own clothes and be guilt-free, because the fabric, needles, thread, and the sewing machine itself probably employed some sort of sweatshop labor to create. Apparently, nakedness is the only way to go. Kind of rough in the wintertime, though. I have inadvertantly not been a fashion follower because truly fashionable clothes don’t really exist in my shape/price range. If it’s exploitation of the Third World that’s bad, though, you don’t have to follow fashion to be guilty of that…even the least hip piece of clothing you own was probably sewn by a Malaysian 10 year old.

You can’t even sew your own clothes and be guilt-free, because the fabric, needles, thread, and the sewing machine itself probably employed some sort of sweatshop labor to create.

Apparently, nakedness is the only way to go. Kind of rough in the wintertime, though.

]]> By: Xavier Harkonnen http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3095 Xavier Harkonnen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3095 Misogynist gay guys? That sounds like radfem projection. Women who hate men are much more likely to become homosexual than men who hate women. Though I'm sure that most lesbians are lesbians because of a lot of testosterone in their uterine environment, just like most gay guys. Misogynist gay guys? That sounds like radfem projection. Women who hate men are much more likely to become homosexual than men who hate women. Though I’m sure that most lesbians are lesbians because of a lot of testosterone in their uterine environment, just like most gay guys.

]]> By: Hissy Cat http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3096 Hissy Cat Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3096 Oh. My. Lord. I have never seen this "corset piercing" before. I don't understand. How does that work? When did it start? Where is it fashoinable? Oh. My. Lord. I have never seen this “corset piercing” before. I don’t understand. How does that work? When did it start? Where is it fashoinable?

]]> By: Q Grrl http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3097 Q Grrl Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3097 FTR Xavier: most lesbians are lesbians b/c they like women. It has nothing to do with men. FTR Xavier: most lesbians are lesbians b/c they like women. It has nothing to do with men.

]]> By: Sam http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3098 Sam Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3098 Hissy cat, you've been given the answer in D.E.I.X.I.S.'s post. Suicide Girls is a pornography website, and no one demands painful mutilations of the female body quite like pornographers. Hissy cat, you’ve been given the answer in D.E.I.X.I.S.’s post. Suicide Girls is a pornography website, and no one demands painful mutilations of the female body quite like pornographers.

]]> By: woojzee http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3099 woojzee Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3099 The corset piercing is so over the top stupid -the obvious factor at work here is that women must go to great lengths to please, please, please. But what consistently kills me is the subtle S&M BARE factor. Monitor one night of TV, a movie or magazine Flipping and see how rare it is for both sexes to appear to be in the same climate zone. If I were from another planet I would swear that the females here are impervious to cold - seeing men dressed in three piece suits in all the media while women are almost always practically bare. Even on the street girls are wearing impossibly skimpy tight clothes while the young men wear bagy,baggy slouchy stuff. In my former office we had a war, males Vs females, to control the thermostat. We women literally had to wear winter coats indoors to keep comfortable in Texas! It is my belief that women are rarely more able to tolerate cold than men. I understand that cold is part of the stress strategy used towards prisoners to "soften them up" Abuse, torture them, whatever. The corset piercing is so over the top stupid -the obvious factor at work here is that women must go to great lengths to please, please, please.

But what consistently kills me is the subtle S&M BARE factor.

Monitor one night of TV, a movie or magazine
Flipping and see how rare it is for both sexes to appear to be in the same climate zone.

If I were from another planet I would swear that the females here are impervious to cold - seeing men dressed in three piece suits in all the media while women are almost always practically bare. Even on the street girls are wearing impossibly skimpy tight clothes while the young men wear bagy,baggy slouchy stuff.

In my former office we had a war, males Vs females, to control the thermostat.
We women literally had to wear winter coats
indoors to keep comfortable in Texas! It is my belief that women are rarely more able to tolerate cold than men.

I understand that cold is part of the stress strategy used towards prisoners to “soften them up” Abuse, torture them, whatever.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3100 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3100 style is smart. fashion is stupid style is smart.
fashion is stupid

]]> By: Xavier Harkonnen http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3101 Xavier Harkonnen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2005/09/26/introduction-to-fashion-week/#comment-3101 I agree, Q GRRL. The vast majority of lesbians are lesbians for reasons of attraction, not ideology, with a likely ultimate cause being hormone levels in the uterus. However, It seems that while an identifiable minority of lesbians (at least in the past) have chosen their orientation for ideological reasons, it is harder to find gay men who have "chosen" their preference for men. There were feminists, especially in the 70's and 80's, who considered it treasonous for women to have romantic attachments with men. Maybe that is no longer the case. I agree, Q GRRL. The vast majority of lesbians are lesbians for reasons of attraction, not ideology, with a likely ultimate cause being hormone levels in the uterus. However, It seems that while an identifiable minority of lesbians (at least in the past) have chosen their orientation for ideological reasons, it is harder to find gay men who have “chosen” their preference for men. There were feminists, especially in the 70’s and 80’s, who considered it treasonous for women to have romantic attachments with men. Maybe that is no longer the case.

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