A weblog by Jonathan Ali
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 "The other problem is that what should be a very basic and easily-achieved responsibility of parents - making sure that their children turn up for school dressed appropriately - is yet again being blamed on some nebulous outside influence, thus giving the parents themselves even more excuse to wriggle off the hook. Kylie and Britney, if they too were weak-minded enough to want to join this endless conga-line of buck-passing, could blame the present hyper-sexualism of society in general and showbusiness in particular on the way they are 'forced' to dress. The premium on female physical beauty in pop has never been hysterically higher; it is hard to imagine an Aretha Franklin or Alison Moyet getting a major record deal today, when even 'quality' singer-songwriters like Norah Jones look like supermodels. But they don't moan, because it's not that big a deal; they simply don their gaudy rags and their dancing shoes and get on with it." - Julie Burchill, everybody's favourite feminist-hedonist (well, mine at any rate) in Thursday's UK Guardian, defending Kylie Minogue and Britney Spears from the attacks of Jim O'Neill, president of Britain's Professional Association of Teachers. posted by Jonathan | 10:09 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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