tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post4795582009022478712..comments2023-06-02T04:54:07.811-04:00Comments on After Academe: RBOC: Academic Awards, Old Acquaintances, Raver Fashion Then and Nowrecent Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-61403922289691562172011-05-18T13:51:09.864-04:002011-05-18T13:51:09.864-04:00But I want to go to a party with you wearing a flo...But I want to go to a party with you wearing a florescent codpiece!! If you do, I'll come dressed like <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2943175860_a39daceba5.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>.<br /><br />(then again, everyone would probably run screaming away from both of us.)recent Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-84420756552219346162011-05-18T13:12:34.798-04:002011-05-18T13:12:34.798-04:00I understood your point originally.
I didn't ...I understood your point originally.<br /><br />I didn't really have much to add.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13027733817039293901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-29653430599841812322011-05-17T18:26:11.423-04:002011-05-17T18:26:11.423-04:00Oh, I totally still like phat pants. They're f...Oh, I totally still like phat pants. They're fun in their won way, but I don't think the costuming today is a return of free love. That scene (and I only know from hearsay -- I'm not THAT old!), as far as I understand, was never about objectification. Representatives of BOTH sexes taking off their clothes and rolling in the mud at Woodstock is not the same as LADIES ONLY wearing a very particular and corporate sex-industry inspired costume in order to "fit in." Maybe I've just become a cranky old bitch, but I wouldn't have dressed that way even when I was 20. I'd have gone for a variation, maybe, but there's no way I'd ever go out in public like that -- unless the boys were going to do it up, too, perhaps in nothing but florescent codpieces. And I don't see that happening anytime soon (except at a gay bar, maybe, but now do you see my point? Deliberate self-objectification among men is a different scenario.)recent Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01076749808434578362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706934951863679787.post-59638595887004228692011-05-17T17:47:33.369-04:002011-05-17T17:47:33.369-04:00I still think phat pants / bell bottoms look cool,...I still think phat pants / bell bottoms look cool, it's just a matter of taste.<br /><br />But yeah I'd rather not see other people's undies in real life. Ultimately I'd have to say that really any fashion choice is a matter of taste. Some fashion choices are even designed to offend, I think.<br /><br />Maybe the "girl power" ethos has morphed back into "free love"? Not necessarily a good thing.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13027733817039293901noreply@blogger.com