I read an account of the "Oh You Sexy Geek" panel. Turns out prequel bashing may be the least of issues I'd have with Chris Gore (and believe me, prequel bashing makes me pretty irked). Basically, he said a bunch of explicit perverted stuff and seemed to think he was paying the women the highest of compliments. :P
As for whether dressing skimpily is empowering or not....well, I can't speak for each individual woman. But I known of too many accounts of women in....er, professions based on being sexually attractive to men, who are there because they suffered abuse and now feel bitter and even violent toward men in general. They take no pleasure in their work; to them, sexiness has become a boring chore that brings in the money. That's not my definition of empowering. Again, that doesn't mean every women is in that situation. And it's someone's individual choice how they want to dress. I just don't buy the universally empowering theory. I feel quite empowered in my non-belly baring, full-length costumes. :)
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Date: 2011-07-29 12:16 pm (UTC)As for whether dressing skimpily is empowering or not....well, I can't speak for each individual woman. But I known of too many accounts of women in....er, professions based on being sexually attractive to men, who are there because they suffered abuse and now feel bitter and even violent toward men in general. They take no pleasure in their work; to them, sexiness has become a boring chore that brings in the money. That's not my definition of empowering. Again, that doesn't mean every women is in that situation. And it's someone's individual choice how they want to dress. I just don't buy the universally empowering theory. I feel quite empowered in my non-belly baring, full-length costumes. :)