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Reblogged from mareofsteel January 28, 2012
What a mean-spirited, baffling and bigoted piece of trash that article is. Everything from the shaming of women, to the drive-by insult to trans folk, to the blinkered and ignorant lecturing is wrong, wrong, wrong. And as a side point, it also happens to be a shitty piece of writing, fake ennui marinated in meandering and unearned snobbery without point, wit, or seemingly, talent. Repulsive.Rule: flatter shoes can be as chic as towering torture chambers
The loathsome Maggie Alderson (Australian-based author of chic-lit, prior editor of several fashion magazines and a self-proclaimed feminist) has written a…
It is very mean spirited, but thankfully she’s already apologized for it. A commenter on her blog named Starlet put forward pretty much all the points people are making in this note thead, and Maggie said she was sorry and even said “I wish I’d kept my trap shut.” I just want to point that out so that no one will send her any further hate mail or nasty comments, since it seems she’s already been enlightened and the issue resolved, so I’d hate to see it reignited just as it’s wrapped up.
But… it’s NOT all wrapped up. Perusal of the comments reveals this quite eloquently. Maggie HASN’T seen the error of her ways. She’s apologised for the hooker trannie sentence and that’s it - she even says she doesn’t understand why people think the column is misogynistic and cruel and keeps blathering on about how she never ‘intended’ offence.
SO: I continue to encourage people to leave their eloquent, considered and measured comments on this column. Maggie doesn’t get it and she IS an influential voice to many Australian women. She genuinely believes her only misstep was the trannie hooker line - AND she continued to use the perjorative ‘trannie’ casually afterwards - eg: in explanation she said to a follower ‘I stupidly mentioned trannies in a thoughtless way’.
She is NOW hopelessly straw-manning by saying she’s not the real enemy, after all, consider Sarah Palin - hoping that such a monstrous comparison will distract from and minimise the actions she still has to take unstinting responsibility for.
I was also really put off by her attack on the burlesque revival. One of my favorite followers and one of the nicest people on Tumblr, iwishuponstars, privileged us some time back with some pictures of a burlesque show she was in. iwishuponstars is, as I said before, a very nice girl, very smart, shares her opinions regularly on her blog—she is not repressed or unintelligent, as Maggie’s views from the article would suggest. Another of my favorite Tumblr people, harlequinfairy, is a proud stripper, and again, she’s smart, independent, and full of class.
I am really put-off - as a sex worker/stripper/burlesque performer - by the way you talk about sex workers here. You think you’re being positive and supportive but actually you’re still being judgemental. You’re still supplying criteria erotic performers have to meet to be approved of by you. That’s not okay.
(And any reference to ‘class’ is just classist anyway. The hell with that)
