I was actually browsing the internet for something funny to post on a Friday, but instead I found this sexist, anti-feminist, anti-woman diatribe concealing itself as journalism. It’s not exactly Friday fun, but it’s so out there it could be seen as hilarious?
Here’s some gems:
If all fashions are symbolic, dresses in particular symbolize womanhood by more fully embodying the ideal of a true lady, the objective understanding of what men find attractive in the fairer sex: passivity, domesticity, childrearing, coital love, piety and fertility. These defining aspects of womanhood are immutable. We all tacitly reaffirm these attributes in our attempts to find a partner. Flirtation and courtship are reaffirmations of what it means to be masculine and feminine because it is only by fulfilling the obligation of our form that we can attract the opposite sex…
…What’s not sexy is feminism (not to be confused with femininity), which is directly responsible for the disappearance of our beloved dresses and the adoption of pants by the “new woman….”
…The miniskirt, a dress of sorts that doesn’t extend below the knees, is both lacking in modesty and elegance. Elegance is essential to femininity, and the lack thereof implies a sort of masculinization. Modesty is essential to feminine virtue, and the lack thereof implies a state of whorification. Immodest, inelegant dresses constitute a degeneration and androgynization of true dresses…
…The ideal form of a true lady is a constant, immutable aspect of humanity, and this strange new development can only represent a bizarre aberration of a perverse and ignoble culture. Dresses are an essential part of any true lady’s attire, and they should be worn.
Speechless, folks. Speechless.
Good thing Feministe does a brilliant analysis of this pants-on-women-hater.



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three comments
You missed the part where they explain the article was first published in 1897. Oh, and the part about how we should beat uppity women trying to get the vote with their own parasols. The day we let ladies stop wearing corsets is the day I drive my horseless carriage into the side of a barn, I say!
Posted by Wesley
November 23, 2007, 2:59 PM
The weird thing is, I've seen some pretty sexy pants and some pretty unsexy skirts.
Posted by Sexy Sadie
November 23, 2007, 3:23 PM
Oh Wesley, that made me laugh out loud.
Posted by Thea
November 23, 2007, 9:06 PM
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