ext_50177 ([identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fpb 2012-10-05 04:24 am (UTC)

I find my point is not getting through. The point is that to select such an image sends its own message, namely that the "rights" for which women are supposed to fight is to be objects of male fantasy of that kind. The original flapper was a retreat from the earnestness of the pre-war years, the years of suffragism and social reform, into a deliberate childishness - that "boyishness" you comment about went with a deliberately brainless and falsely innocent dumb-blonde posture, which of course delighted men at large. To retrieve it today sends the same message. It is not a message I find respectful of women as persons and individuals.

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