immersangOctober 25, 2023(Edited October 25, 2023)
Hmmm. This already gets a little...weird only a few minutes in.
Apart from the fact that she can't even consistently say "women" or at least "female people", but goes with "femmes" (which, according to today's standards, would include dudes in skirts, and them missing in the high creative positions is really not the issue here), she kind of seems to play dumb on why certain trends are blamed on "the patriarchy".
I mean, the examples she calls out are literally:
Corsets
Lack of pockets in women's clothes
Restrictive skirts
And she claims that the reason is that these things are "weird" or "odd" or something "we don't fully understand". When.....no, we do understand them just fine. All of those examples are things that restrict women and give them less comfort, just because the beauty standards dictate(d) that they give the female body a nicer form. It's really neither "weird" nor "odd", and it's certainly not something we are just not informed enough "to understand".
Well, I trust this video might get better since it was shared here, so I'll keep watching. But that beginning already rubbed me the wrong way tbh.
It does get better. Once she gets into the history she starts using "woman/women" and drops the "femme" entirely. Hearing how manteau making, dress making, and women's fashion was female dominated for 200+ years until industrialization and men starting couture and putting their names on everything was interesting.
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Hmmm. This already gets a little...weird only a few minutes in.
Apart from the fact that she can't even consistently say "women" or at least "female people", but goes with "femmes" (which, according to today's standards, would include dudes in skirts, and them missing in the high creative positions is really not the issue here), she kind of seems to play dumb on why certain trends are blamed on "the patriarchy".
I mean, the examples she calls out are literally:
And she claims that the reason is that these things are "weird" or "odd" or something "we don't fully understand". When.....no, we do understand them just fine. All of those examples are things that restrict women and give them less comfort, just because the beauty standards dictate(d) that they give the female body a nicer form. It's really neither "weird" nor "odd", and it's certainly not something we are just not informed enough "to understand".
Well, I trust this video might get better since it was shared here, so I'll keep watching. But that beginning already rubbed me the wrong way tbh.
It does get better. Once she gets into the history she starts using "woman/women" and drops the "femme" entirely. Hearing how manteau making, dress making, and women's fashion was female dominated for 200+ years until industrialization and men starting couture and putting their names on everything was interesting.