Sport-corset Fallout! Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ugly
I've disagreed with Twisty in the past, but I'm going ditto-head on this one: the sport corset in an abomination.
Yet, there are women who defend their right to look sexy while they exercise. I have no problem with looking sexy (obviously, *wink, wink*), but this bothered me just a little bit:
So wait-not only are you exercising solely to make your body more pleasing to men, but you are so afraid of male displeasure that you feel forced to look attractive while you are molding your body for male pleasure? Although I feel that occasionally, Twisty is too quick to brand straight women "patriarchal sexbots", I can't read quotes like the one above and not think, "Damn, girl, you are a slave." Where is the middle ground between "every act by a member of an opressed class is a political act" and "I must constantly be a dewy, nubile object of male fantasy"? If shocks me that while women desire the opportunity to be treated equally, many still haven't come to terms with their own humanity. Ladies: you are human beings. Human beings do gross things. They sweat and burp and crap and get nasty red zits, and occasionally, cactus dermatitis. So do the men that you're trying to hard to entice, and God knows they don't hide it. How can we expect men to treat us as equals if we don't give ourselves the luxury of being human?
UPDATE: What Amanda Marcotte said.
Yet, there are women who defend their right to look sexy while they exercise. I have no problem with looking sexy (obviously, *wink, wink*), but this bothered me just a little bit:
When I do exercise (which is rare, aside from all the walking I do), I don’t exercise for my health; I exercise because I want to look good. And why do I want to look good? For men.
So wait-not only are you exercising solely to make your body more pleasing to men, but you are so afraid of male displeasure that you feel forced to look attractive while you are molding your body for male pleasure? Although I feel that occasionally, Twisty is too quick to brand straight women "patriarchal sexbots", I can't read quotes like the one above and not think, "Damn, girl, you are a slave." Where is the middle ground between "every act by a member of an opressed class is a political act" and "I must constantly be a dewy, nubile object of male fantasy"? If shocks me that while women desire the opportunity to be treated equally, many still haven't come to terms with their own humanity. Ladies: you are human beings. Human beings do gross things. They sweat and burp and crap and get nasty red zits, and occasionally, cactus dermatitis. So do the men that you're trying to hard to entice, and God knows they don't hide it. How can we expect men to treat us as equals if we don't give ourselves the luxury of being human?
UPDATE: What Amanda Marcotte said.
posted by La Blonde Parisienne at 12:20 PM
2 Comments:
I turns out that she was joking about wearing sexy clothes just for men while she was working out. Sometimes, people out to read a blog a bit before they actually make judgements
Sometimes, yes. I, on the other hand, prefer to skip right to the judgin'. That way, I've got plenty of time left over for glowering and shouting at children.
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