An angry Lesbian Feminist (is there any other kind) is outraged because… among other things… feminine heterosexual women should not be allowed to dress like Diesel Dykes! (Warning: the Story is at NRO, so prepare for ads to take over your browser.)
The columnist, named Sophie Wilkinson, describes the trend of what she calls “unisex style” as a new thing, blaming the “high-street ubiquity of unisex outfitters such as American Apparel and Uniqlo and the androgynous cuts of Scandinavian shops like Cos.”
“What was once a queer-owned style has shifted to the mainstream, being appropriated by straight women to the point that it’s now impossible to infer a sexual orientation from the way a woman dresses,” Wilkinson writes in a piece titled “Butch chic: how the gender-neutral trend has ruined my wardrobe.”
According to Wilkinson, examples of this “butch chic” style include printed T-shirts, “skirts without peplums or lace,” torn vests “riot grrrl boots,” and, in general, outfits where “functionality takes precedence.”
I’m sorry… but how is that any more of a “cultural appropriation” than white feminists using “jazz hands?”
Kind of reminds me when feminists got their panties in a wad because a scientist who had just landed a friggin’ space probe on a friggin’ comet, wore a shirt they didn’t like. (Sigh) Feminists, if they aren’t talking about clothes, they’re melodramatically throwing themselves on the fainting couch because some guy traumatized their feels with his insensitive words and opinions.
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“What was once a queer-owned style has shifted to the mainstream, being appropriated by straight women to the point that it’s now impossible to infer a sexual orientation from the way a woman dresses,”
Wasn’t that the whole point of mainstreaming the lgbtqrstuv life?
Such drama queens…sheesh. Is there nothing they are happy about?
Except she’s not angry, she’s not outraged, and she says of the whole phenomenon, “Obviously, it’s fine.”
She’s not saying that heterosexual women should not dress that way. (Although she is saying she’s unhappy about it.)
This is the same mentality that criticizes gay white males for ‘appropriating’ black mannerisms. There is no individualism here, only group identity via external characteristics, fueled by the desire to exclude.
Have you ever met a leftist that is happy? Maybe one in ten.
That reminds me that the first rap battles where in the Norse saga of Loki.
“angry Lesbian Feminist (is there any other kind)” sounds like someone else answered the question “is being gay a choice” by saying “people have 2 choices to love women or to understand them”