So George Lopez had Tim Gunn on his show earlier this week, and after a tiny bit of small talk, the two proceeded to hate on various women. First, he scolded women for showing too much skin , then he poo pooed the fashion sense of the people on The Jersey Shore . Lopez charmingly suggested women wear tight clothing because they think theyre thinner than they really are, and Gunn compared the process by which Snooki comes to feel comfortable in what shes wearing to the process by which human noses get used to the smell of monkey feces. Ouch.
This is all fairly par for the course for someone whose job is literally to judge peoples fashion sense, but when he talked about Hillary Clinton, I began to see red. This is what he said:
She’s the secretary of state, she’s the former senator from New York, she’s the former first lady. Why must she dress that way? I think she’s confused about her gender. All these big baggy menswear tailored pantsuits. No, I’m really seriousIf the pantsuit didnt stop an inch above her ankle you could hide the cankle.I have great respect for her intellect and for her tenacity, and for what she does for our country in her governmental role. I just wish she could send a stronger message about American fashion.”
Um, isnt that what we have Michelle Obama for? And why isnt he criticizing any of Hillarys male colleagues? Im sure Hillarys very sorry that in between flying all over the world trying to prevent global Armageddon from occurring, she doesnt have time to solve the eternal paradox of how a politician can look pretty and feminine without being perceived as weak. You know what you cant have after global Armageddon? Fashion. Or stores. Or eyes, if youre really unlucky. If Hillarys pantsuits help her appear more masculine and therefore more unfuckwithable to foreign leaders who hold retrograde beliefs equating femininity with weakness, we should all be begging her to keep wearing them.
Furthermore, as a gay and celibate man, Gunns exhibiting a disappointingly gender normative view of things. You cannot expect people to accept your non-normative sexuality, and then turn around and enforce rigid gender roles on others. Thats not how it works. It just goes to show you that just because someones a member of a sexual minority, doesnt necessarily mean they dont still hold many hetero- and/or gender normative viewpoints.
And the cankles thing was just a low blow. Not cool, Mr. Gunn. I thought you were classier than that.
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