accidental feminist

you’ve come a long way, baby? August 12, 2005

Sexy kitchen aprons? According to some (The Wall Street Journal), an attempt to cash in on an affluent market where the women cook once a month as a novelty, and want to look cute doing it. According to others (indignant left-wing feminists with short hair), a feeble subterfuge created by men to lure women back into the kitchen. And still others (eerily happy neocon feminists with manicured nails) see it an attempt by advocates of difference feminism to help us accept and embrace our true femininity.

My question is: why is it that they haven’t created a Chippendales line for men? Hmmm…perhaps because the myth that women are just as image-oriented and objectifying as men is wrong? Or because it’s right, but women are only just as likely to objectify other women (face it ladies, you’re not watching Alias to see Michael Vartan kick box in a strapless dress.)