For a few decades now, women have been spreading awareness of how narrowly defined female beauty is and how thinness has been idolized to the point that females will starve themselves and sometimes die in their quest for the “ideal body”. We blamed fashion magazines, we blamed men, we blamed Hollywood. We asked, “Why are …
R.S.C. wrote: “I’d be interested to hear your opinion on whether some degree of exploitation of a woman’s physical attractiveness hurts the entire women’s ‘movement.’ Specifically, I’m thinking of edgier examples such as wet T-shirt contests, oil or whipped cream wrestling in bikinis, etc. If a woman has done that and enjoyed the rush and …
Fashion designer Carolina Herrera repeated a cliche recently in an interview, during which she was asked about the current celebrity/fashion trend of naked dresses (exhibit A, below). She dismissed the trend, and said, “In life, there should be a little mystery.” Ah, she trotted out the “mystery” line. You’ve heard it before. It’s used to …
The Naked Advice 