Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Imagesīut then we turn to rightwing women. Laura Ingraham delivers a speech in Cleveland, Ohio on 20 July 2016.
I mean, I’ve heard them described as “shrill” (which I think is Republican speak for “female I haven’t paid for”) but no one’s ever going to confuse Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren. (OK, that analogy might need some punching up.) The point is, the diversity is great when it comes to the styles of leftwing media women, and we haven’t even discussed American leftwing political women. There’s Andrea Mitchell, who Gawker once described as looking “like all the Golden Girls at once”, which is literally the highest compliment I’ve ever heard the fabulous Joy-Ann Reid, one of the most prominent female African-American correspondents in the country, who can rock a block-coloured shift dress like nobody’s business and probably most famously, Rachel Maddow, the no-nonsense evening host who gives Republicans a shrift as short as her hair. Even arguing with this cliche feels like a means of giving it credence but, seriously, you only need to look at, say, MSNBC, the American leftwing cable news channel, to see how absurd it is. Think any negative stereotype about feminists in the 1970s, or any endorsed by Rod Liddle today, and you have the vision. There is a cliche about how leftwing women look – popular, as it happens, on the right wing – and it can pretty much be summed up as “ugly, jack-booted, feminazi psycho lesbian”. This got me thinking about the look of American rightwing women in general. Oh well, looks like she’ll have to put up with you in your awesome Bella Freud jumper and Topshop wide-legged culottes combo for another weekend!
What a shame it seems to be sold almost nowhere these days, as these are the clothes your mother (in-law) dreams of. You know how your mother (or mother-in-law) goes on about how you wear too much black/denim/weird stuff, and you can’t figure out what the hell it is she expects you to wear? Well, allow me to introduce you to Ivanka Trump. The grimly bland suede pumps, the simpering floral shifts, the just-flirtatious-enough body-skimming little black dresses – welcome, people, to death by mainstream feminine. Excellent question, Jonathan! I was pondering something similar myself recently while looking through Ivanka Trump’s fashion collection on, which seems to be one of the only places it is stocked these days.
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