Update: renamed entry
This is old news by now in the blogosphere, but no amount of procrastination can justify neglecting it entirely. And since I can't sleep tonight, this seems as good a time as any.
There was a big stink made over a photo of some bloggers who got to have lunch with former president Clinton. One of the women became the target of a lot of crude comments for wearing a shirt that fit more, *ahem* snuggly than the other ladies.
I'll throw my two cents in and say that there was room for a lot more maturity in the way people responded to her outfit. That side of it has been blogged to death already.
Since I'm probably going to get some actual outside attention for this post, I should point out that Jessica is not a part of my target audience; I've got no place to criticize her personally. (And even I have to say that I've seen a whole lot worse, even if it is beyond the standard I'm promoting.)
That said, it's worth noting just how quickly the innuendo started to fly. Her outfit was seen as sexy. Bloggers and commenters alike associated being sexy with sex. The fact that Clinton was there only magnified the effect.
I can't help but hear some of the comments in her defense as, "how dare you associate that poor innocent woman's sexy outfit with sex!" It just strikes me as silly.
How does it strike the rest of you?
3 comments:
I'm not sure I completely understand the situation. We don't know for sure if the womans intention was to look like Monica except that she happens to have a conservative outfit [t-shirt and skirt/pants] and black hair. She may or may not be an intern, but she is eligible to be a the luncheon.
I'm not a fan of the shirt she chose to wear at the meal, but it is her choice. A sexy outfit, atleast to me, is different from sex itself. I think the argument here is if you can look good without instigation the sexual feelings of someone else. Certain actions, situations, and clothing definately do the job nicely, but I don't think a person can NOT do that. We all have different 'tastes'.
I don't know if that made much sense to anyone, sorry if it's completely off I tried.
Goodness no... She was not an intern. She was a part of the group of bloggers. The word "intern" has become a nasty word where Mr. Clinton is concerned.
To be sexy, by definition, is to be sexually attractive or arousing. It's true that there is no foolproof way to avoid being looked at in a sexual manner. BUT, it is possible to dress to avoid Attracting such attention that you wouldn't have otherwise gotten.
You cannot dress to be sexy and hope to avoid sexual attention.
Now I've gone and strayed from my original point... All I really wanted to point out was how little it takes to get that kind of attention.
We talked through some of this on MSN. I really don't know if the lady intended to get such attention. I do agree that you can attract it. It doesn't take much at all, that's for sure.
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