Guardian article by Hadley Freeman, 'You want to dress up in a cute animal hat? Oh, please, just grow up!' Should women be told what to wear if it's a feminist doing the telling?

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RM76 · 04/02/2013 17:46

I know this isn't a very serious article, but it does seem to be a trend.

www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2013/feb/04/cute-animal-hat-grow-up?commentpage=2

You see women doing this type of thing to other women all the time.
I have read countless articles in which the author (normally a woman) throws up their hands in despair at the stupidity of other women, demanding that they stop doing X,Y and Z or they, and by extension women, will not be taken seriously.

Surely everybody has the right to be taken seriously. Do we really want equality for women that is dependent on another list of things they must do in order to obtain it, and if so is that really equality?

Just wondered what other people thought and was wondering if I'm missing something. Hope I'm making sense, not slept much. How do you end these bits?
Now I'm talking to myself, I don't know, Byeeee...

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RM76 · 04/02/2013 18:10

There is a difference between saying
'I really hate those hats, why do people wear them?'
and saying
'I really hate that hat, and think that by wearing it you make yourself look like a stupid person who nobody should take seriously' or ' by wearing that hat you have let yourself down as a woman'.

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FloatyBeatie · 04/02/2013 17:56

I fairness to Hadley F. she did write a piece last week saying that it is not on, really, to tell women it is "unfeminist" to wear high heels and the like. So in general she is against the kind of authoritarian proscriptiveness that you mention.

I think this is just intended as a piece taking the piss out of a very stupid fashion. There is the additional serious point that it is a bit suspect to seek to make yourself look like a child. But surely womanly solidarity doesn't need to extend to refusing to give any critical expression to anything that women do?

PersonalClown · 04/02/2013 17:53

I wear a wolf head hat with attached mittens! Like this

Why? Because I can.

DuckMeInTheGrass · 04/02/2013 17:50

I wear a leopard print hat with ears. I dont give a fuck what anyone thinks of it.

I think it just makes the author look stupid. Thats all she can come up with to write about? Other peoples hat choices?

Not read article btw.

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