/the message is so clear and so obnoxious---Good Women are naturally pretty and don't need to use any cosmetics like those awful Vain Women who are vain because they use cosmetics and surgery because they're not pretty like Good Woman, and you're supposed to be pretty but not actually try at it, that's bad./
Look, Ms. Hamilton, I’m hopeless at fashion, generally don’t wear makeup, and shopping for clothes or shoes bores me to tears. But that doesn’t mean that women who do enjoy shopping or dressing up are automatically shallow and petty. Sure, I don’t like dressing up, but that’s *me.* Just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean that I have a problem with other women liking it. Nor does it mean that I’m more of a “genuine” and “real” woman than they are, just like they’re not more “genuine” or “real” women for liking fashion.
/And it's not like the MEN came to impress at all, they're not shallow and vapid, nosiree, it's just the women who came to be decorations apparently!/
This reminds me that this attitude of “if you have to beautify yourself instead of relying on natural beauty, you’re automatically shallow and spoiled” applies to both genders. How many times is a man vilified in media for being a metrosexual or derided as a “girly man” for just taking care of his hair, health, clothes, or general hygiene? If the character is supposed to be a member of royalty or aristocracy or any kind of elite, maybe he’ll get a pass, but if he’s not? If he’s just an average guy? Anita and her ilk would be sneering at him until the cows came home.
/Um, presumably they knew that vampires are apparently total idiots who think that IMPENDING DOOM is a good time for a cocktail ball without the cocktails./
She’s doing what Stephenie Meyer did when she wrote Breaking Dawn. Who cares if the scenes that you’re writing make no sense with your previously established events? It’s your wish-fulfillment fantasy and therefore you can write whatever you want and not give a hoot about coherence, character motivation, logic, or common sense.
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Date: 2013-07-05 09:47 pm (UTC)Look, Ms. Hamilton, I’m hopeless at fashion, generally don’t wear makeup, and shopping for clothes or shoes bores me to tears. But that doesn’t mean that women who do enjoy shopping or dressing up are automatically shallow and petty. Sure, I don’t like dressing up, but that’s *me.* Just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean that I have a problem with other women liking it. Nor does it mean that I’m more of a “genuine” and “real” woman than they are, just like they’re not more “genuine” or “real” women for liking fashion.
/And it's not like the MEN came to impress at all, they're not shallow and vapid, nosiree, it's just the women who came to be decorations apparently!/
This reminds me that this attitude of “if you have to beautify yourself instead of relying on natural beauty, you’re automatically shallow and spoiled” applies to both genders. How many times is a man vilified in media for being a metrosexual or derided as a “girly man” for just taking care of his hair, health, clothes, or general hygiene? If the character is supposed to be a member of royalty or aristocracy or any kind of elite, maybe he’ll get a pass, but if he’s not? If he’s just an average guy? Anita and her ilk would be sneering at him until the cows came home.
/Um, presumably they knew that vampires are apparently total idiots who think that IMPENDING DOOM is a good time for a cocktail ball without the cocktails./
She’s doing what Stephenie Meyer did when she wrote Breaking Dawn. Who cares if the scenes that you’re writing make no sense with your previously established events? It’s your wish-fulfillment fantasy and therefore you can write whatever you want and not give a hoot about coherence, character motivation, logic, or common sense.