Comments on: Are you wearing your Feminist Lesbian uniform?

By: Feminism Friday from the Feed-reader — Hoyden About Town

Feminism Friday from the Feed-reader — Hoyden About Town — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:13:42 +0000

[...] Are you wearing your Feminist Lesbian uniform? – Holly’s take on that infamous froth-specked anti-feminist rant about the horrors of women [...]

By: miwome

miwome — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:54:03 +0000

Coming to it late, via Ren’s blog–

For the record, this makes them more gay, but possibly less feminist.

COMEDY GOLD. Also, my boyfriend thought I looked hot in my too-lose, bleached-to-hell, paint-stained old jeans (before I cut them off in a fit of Chicago humidity–wait, he still thinks they’re hot), but then he wears blue jeans too. I suppose we’re both just confused by the damage our proletarian status has done to our brains.

By: Jenn Astle

Jenn Astle — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:42:18 +0000

This is EXACTLY the reason that “lipstick feminism” confuses the hell out of men and women equally. 1st and 2nd wave feminists cry out “See! Our femininity is a tool of power belonging to the elitist majority of the hetersexual etc. etc.”. Men read it and think, those damn dyke lesbians, ruining our five year old memories by wearing frumpy jeans and not frocks.

FROCK THAT!

I mean, we’re not dumb ladies, we wouldn’t do anything we didn’t want to do, isn’t that what the whole fight was about in the first place. Yes, there are standards, but haven’t we had a hand in creating them. Isn’t removing our agency from that process problematic.

Maybe if men like this got their heads out of their asses, and the “hard-core radical” feminists started to take “lipstick feminism” serious women would finally be able to be whomever they CHOOSE to be, and be comfortable with it, regardless of their size, shape, or what “brand” of feminism they ascribe to.

As far as I am concerned, if you are a woman, and you like being a woman, your a feminist. If not, you should see a shrink once or twice a week to work on that.

By: Avery

Avery — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:06:32 +0000

But, but…he totally forgot cargo shorts! The influence of those multi-pocketed, khaki wonders on gender issues is almost impossible to calculate.

By: Rich L

Rich L — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:36:45 +0000

I got a real heated conversation going this week on Skirt Cafe about jeans as the feminist outfit.
Yes skirts do leave a little to the imagination where pants can show every curve.
I do think that the right skirt on a women can demand respect from guys.
But really does the writer want us to go back 300 years in our dress.

Just a little about me
Right now I am writing this in my Sarong, has a flame design on it.
Yesterday I went to Kohl’s had a 15% discount was in a white cord cargo above knee skirt.
The cashier was the only second glance I saw.

Rich
Skirting in the USA

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:23:27 +0000

I’m reliably informed that Reptoids have tails, and thus skirts or kilts would be far more comfortable in their true form. Surely the logical conclusion is that the international Jewish conspiracy and their feminist allies are defending humanity with their jeans.

By: I am a slovenly, blowzy slattern feminist « Galling Galla

I am a slovenly, blowzy slattern feminist « Galling Galla — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:15:12 +0000

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By: off-the-radar

off-the-radar — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:34:48 +0000

thank you for posting such a funny deconstruction. I was laughing out loud through the whole article.

By: wintermute

wintermute — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:09:20 +0000

My 18-month-old daughter is wearing blue jeans today. With big pink hearts on them. They’re so adorable and girly. Except now I realise that they’re “Slovenly, Drab, Unkempt, Slatternly [and] Blowzy”. How foolish of me not to realise that.

Also, did he just say that women in jeans look like slatterns? Because my mental image of prostitutes does not involve jeans. Still, I imagine he knows better than I…

By: Persephone Hazard

Persephone Hazard — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:39:43 +0000

Oh God, this man is hilarious. This man is hilarious and I am obviously a Fake Feminist.

I do not own a pair of trousers of any sort. I have not worn a pair of trousers of any sort since I was twelve or thirteen. I wear skirts and dresses and only skirts and dresses; trousers don’t look good on me and I don’t feel comfortable in them.

It’s bastards like this that make me sometimes want to do it anyway, just to piss them off…