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[d_aulnoy]

Dear Oscar Worst and Best Dressed List Makers:

I know I'm not your target audience: I never watch the show and have the sneaking suspicion that the entire fashion industry is really just a practical joke with the world's longest set-up.

Nevertheless.

What the hell is up with putting men on the best-dressed list for wearing - wait for it! - tuxes?  I mean, talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.  What's next, congratulations for donning skivvies?

InsincereAirKisses!
d_aulnoy

Comments

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I agree on this ... or rather, I think you've pegged it correctly, but to me, that's part of the problem. I'd much rather live in a world where the members of both genders who enjoyed peacocking it up could indulge to their hearts content, and the rest of us could occasionally take a day off, without one gender shoring up the entire ridiculous system ... but I realize that there's less than a snowball's chance of this happening within my lifetime.

Sigh.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think human nature is very mutable.

I suppose it's all a matter of what you give up and what you get. Even if that did occur, people would still be accusing other people, implicitly or explicitly, of violating the accuser's standards of how a person should be.