Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Feminism: chat

Original poster

UK Vogue

55 replies

Boredofwinternow · 04/01/2018 17:08

In order to celebrate 100 years of women having the vote, they have put seven women on their cover, including transwoman Paris Lees. Women just aren't allowed anything of their own any more, are they? First Celebrity Big Brother then this.

So many amazing women to choose from and they choose a man who's had plastic surgery to create an opening in his body and fake breasts, who writes about how much he likes to be fucked by two men and feel it dripping down his leg afterwards.

The editor of British Vogue is male, of course.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Gacapa · 06/01/2018 01:03

I really do apologise. Quite right, I shouldn't have taken the bait on this one. No idea what I was thinking.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 05/01/2018 01:21

According to the Detroit Free Press, Myers earned a reputation for her "humour and patience" in handling the White House press corps, often delivering "quick one-liners" while issuing daily press briefings. Until September 1994, when she was given the title of Assistant to the President, she held the lesser title of "deputy assistant" and had a lower salary than previous White House Press Secretaries. She also lacked consistent access to Clinton's inner circle. This was frequently noted in news coverage about Myers throughout her term

The bold is my emphasis.

AssassinatedBeauty · 05/01/2018 01:15

Not just bonkers but beyond sexist. If a woman doesn't look appropriately feminine according to some crazed Internet dude then really they must be a man! Grim.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 05/01/2018 01:12

The White Press secretaries video was absolutely bonkers.

AssassinatedBeauty · 05/01/2018 00:54

@MelonKnee I urge you to seek out some psychological help for this odd obsession that you've described here.

MelonKnee · 05/01/2018 00:45

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

MakeMisogynyAHateCrime · 05/01/2018 00:26

Melon you give feminists fighting a just cause a bad name.

AssassinatedBeauty · 05/01/2018 00:16

Don't ask for more bizarre posts about women who MelonKnee thinks are men! This is delusional and wrong. I don't know what you're looking at if you think Bella Hadid is a man. Kit Butler is 6ft 2 btw and totally flat chested, Bella Hadid is 5ft 9 and has visible curves. Can you explain how Bella is really Kit?

MelonKnee · 05/01/2018 00:06

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 05/01/2018 00:06

So men flaunt TIMs to born women as role models and reminders that we can be replaced at any time, that we don't own our spaces and that we should be emulating their plastic prettiness but few would stick their dicks in one. Good to know that when born women have been replaced by TIMs in public positions and especially positions of power and privilege that born women will still have roles in being those who are fucked and bear men's children. The Handmaid's Tale needs updating I think to see TIMs in league with conservative men to fuck over uppity women and keep us in our places.

MelonKnee · 05/01/2018 00:00

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Gacapa · 04/01/2018 23:59

So Melon can you give other examples who are not sportswomen?

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 04/01/2018 23:55

One would have assumed Eddo-Lodge was familiar with the work of Alice Walker and Maya Angelou.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 04/01/2018 23:50

Someone asked her which writers she had I mind but she didn't clarify.

MelonKnee · 04/01/2018 23:49

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 04/01/2018 23:48

From Eddo Lodge's twitter account

Reni Eddo-Lodge
@renireni
It's a fucked up but true reality. In particular, I think trans women writers have best articulated the dangerous task of navigating male ego and how it can descend into violence in sexual encounters

ArcheryAnnie · 04/01/2018 23:39

There's one thing being aboard the trans-train, and there's quite another thinking that anyone - TIM or woman or man - who says that street harrassment of women is sexy is a "new suffragette".

(But I looked at Reni Eddo-Lodge's twitter and it does seem that she's a homophobe, which is SUCH a disappointment.)

FreiasBathtub · 04/01/2018 23:34

I was talking about this just the other day with my friend! I feel like I've noticed a lot more (actually female) nipples in the last two issues of Vogue. I don't have a problem with nakedness in fashion photography when it's telling a story but these just felt exploitative.

Whatever you think of Alexandra Shulman's editorship, she did lead some thinking around e.g. size 0 models. I don't have confidence, from these first two issues I've read, that Edward Enniful has any interest in producing a magazine that speaks to the interests and concerns of adult women in their 30s and beyond, or even produces beautiful art and showcases interesting people. The whole thing feels really agenda bashing and it makes me sad, cause I love Vogue.

Gacapa · 04/01/2018 23:34

Hang on. So you're saying Schulman, Wintour etc are MALE? The Pankhursts were MALE? All the supermodels are MALE?

Are you David Ike? Confused

LangCleg · 04/01/2018 23:33

Reni Eddo-Lodge is firmly aboard the trans train, I'm afraid.

twitter.com/renireni/status/794960094211559424

ArcheryAnnie · 04/01/2018 23:31

I'm trying to report Melon's post, but for some reason the site won't let me.

QuentinSummers · 04/01/2018 23:25

That is out of order melon and is reported.
You can be a woman and be flat chested. Especially if you have a low body fat ratio.

MelonKnee · 04/01/2018 23:22

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Ereshkigal · 04/01/2018 23:14

He'll write some boring article about it in the next few days calling us all middle class white women.

QuentinSummers · 04/01/2018 23:11

I follow Stella Creasey on Twitter and an a huge fan. Very disappointed to see the "trans women ARE women" borg has taken hold with her Sad