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2017-10-02 | |||||
[MichellesMirror] You might have thought after the politicization of football and children’s library books there would be nothing left to politicize but you would be wrong. Robin Givhans has managed to make the case that even clothing is political – not to mention racist. Before we get into the specifics, allow me to establish Ms. Givhan’s credentials. A Detroit native, she graduated from Princeton, holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan and has been a fashion writer – for the Detroit Free Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, The Daily Beast, and currently the Washington Post - for nearly 30 years. In 2006 she received a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the first ever awarded to a fashion writer: “the Pulitzer Committee explained its rationale by noting Givhan's "witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism.” Despite once having the audacity to criticize Michelle Obama for wearing shorts to the Grand Canyon ("Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common," ) she otherwise checked every politically correct box out there. Still, her column from last month seems to go beyond the norms of standard cultural political correctness: Neo-Nazis are using fashion in an attempt to normalize, and the fashion industry needs to speak up. It’s about the White Supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and what they wore. Her main objection is that the Neo-Nazis didn’t don the cloaks and hoods of the Klu Klux Klan
Fashion has been weaponized. And the fashion industry has been all but silent… I’m not sure how Robin feels about the NFL but she clearly thinks the fashion industry needs to speak up against this existential racist, sexist, homophobic threat: Not every industry needs to make a public statement with every turn of the news cycle… Hey, I’ve got it! How about if we make the Alt-Right all wear pink pussy hats when they assemble? Just what America needs, another industry telling us to check our privilege, stop with the cultural appropriation and just shut up. | |||||
Posted by:badanov |
#7 I've culturally appropriated 'The Texas Crewcut' to go with my sleeveless sweatchirt, jeans and sandal style. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-02 17:06 |
#6 In 2006 she received a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Won by a Democrat every year, I'm sure... |
Posted by: Raj 2017-10-02 11:37 |
#5 Yassss, we all need to listen to the Fashion Industry™ I recommend lingerie football Frank. It's how I keep on the latest trends. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-02 09:21 |
#4 Yassss, we all need to listen to the Fashion Industry™ |
Posted by: Frank G 2017-10-02 09:17 |
#3 Not one of the black ppl around atlanta I have worked for over the years have called me racist. Could be that heavily laden 'cargo pocket' on the right. Nobody wants to become the perp in an NRA self-defense story. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-02 09:11 |
#2 I wear cargo shorts to work a lot because I have a lot of pockets to stick my smaller tools in. No t one of the black ppl around atlanta I have worked for over the years have called me racist. Not to mention my very short hair.Guess it's a good thing I work in the John's Creek, Alpharetta neighborhoods where a little more common sense prevails. |
Posted by: Chris 2017-10-02 09:04 |
#1 I only wear cotton - that's gotta be racist. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-10-02 07:10 |