tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post4673133769495180617..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: Fashion über allesPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-18176911095002574862011-02-28T15:45:31.419-05:002011-02-28T15:45:31.419-05:00Eamonn,
Huh!
Kei,
You're right that it'...Eamonn,<br /><br />Huh!<br /><br />Kei,<br /><br />You're right that it's not clear what's bigotry and what's the acolytish tendency of fashion-blog commenters. (Also true, apparently, of <a href="http://whatwouldphoebedo.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-which-im-old-bagel-stick-in-mud.html" rel="nofollow">food-blog commenters</a>.) The usual online urge to point out missteps with too much bluntness (anonymity and all that) veers off to the other extreme - as you point out, there's inevitably a link provided in the hopes of self-promotion. As though, if one is sufficiently supportive of everything the Sartorialist expresses, one will become the kind of style-blogger who can post photos of herself with "c/o" included, for legal reasons, in the captions, because all the clothes were free. This is why I include this latest Sartorialist-veering-off-into-something-other-than-the-pretty incident with the moments he attempts to address the question of fashion and health. I suspect the knee-jerk pro-Galliano commenters would be just as supportive of the cigarettes-and-emaciation-as-prerequisites-for-style approach, not because anti-Semitism and anti-healthism are part of the same coherent anti-PC message, but because the Sartorialist represents Fashion, and obeying his every moronic utterance is viewed as a way to gain a piece of the action.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-90972557502469844962011-02-28T15:01:33.773-05:002011-02-28T15:01:33.773-05:00I thought the above comment was referring to the S...I thought the above comment was referring to the Sartorialist; this isn't the first time he's flirted with racism. I guess his intentions are pro-humanity, or something like that, but he often comes across as oblivious and ignorant when he tries to "[go] a little deeper than hemlines and color schemes," as he says in his updated post on matter. He should really just avoid that territory.<br /><br />Of the comments that appeared in his first post, it's kind of interesting that you do get "a great diversity of views and opinions." (Although, people pointing out technicalities about the French legal system--is that "views and opinions"? Anyway.) I wonder if some people who comment have pre-existing anti-Semitic/anti-PC sentiments, or if they are just sort of following the Sartorialist blindly, like "Yeah! What he said!" Both kinds of comments are disturbing in their own ways, but I'm noticing a lot more of the latter with fashion blogs. (Followed by a link to the commentator's own fashion blog.) I guess you could differentiate them if you look carefully, but I really don't feel like looking through them again.keihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395109777604139705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-26904743187803101932011-02-28T07:14:56.740-05:002011-02-28T07:14:56.740-05:00He's done it again
http://bit.ly/eTAWkgHe's done it again <br /><br />http://bit.ly/eTAWkgEamonn McDonaghhttp://eamonn.com.ar/index.htmlnoreply@blogger.com