2000-03-17 09:09:06 dear dairy: thanks for sending me the latest issue of the New Yorker. you were right, that fashion spread is totally horrifying. you would think that the fashion industry, mostly comprised of gay men, and women, wouldn't always act so violently towards women. but they do, they do. it didn't make any sense to me, and then I was thinking about how it't not just some guy making these decisions, setting these awful standards and precedents for how women should feel about themselves; they're not individuals, they're companies. and companies have a product to sell and stockholders to make happy, and so have to have publicity and advertising, and we already know that the most successful ad is the one that is most violent towards women. so I guess in a lot of ways it's my fault, it's our fault, isn't dairy? but it doesn't feel like it sometimes. it feels like their fault. it feels like the fault of a man or a woman in italy or miami who doesn't know any better, and is scared that they might lose all the fame, all the money someday, and so they have to keep on pushing it farther, not worrying about what their continued success actually means. for us. for people. but what should I do, dairy? when I get on the bus every morning, I can go up and down the isles and see who is reading this issue of the New Yorker, or talking about something they saw last night on E! television, and I can tell them what they should really think about those things. but they will not listen, and they will think I'm crazy, and it probably wouldn't help that much anyway. anyways, dairy, please don't send me any more magazines that feature negative images of women. I have enough. I want to see the opposite, dairy. I want to know that there are corporations and advertisers that know that we can't go on like this, that understand the power of advertising, beyond just selling some product. can you send me anything like that, dairy? please? k |
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