Archive - June 1, 2016

Fashion

The New Puritanism: Policing Women’s Wardrobes in 2016

by Erin Gillespie

Okay, have a look at the above outfit. Sure, it’s a bit…um… extreme. Yes, it is probably what I would call “questionable taste”. But in this, the supposed modern era, Americans are always droning on and on about “freedoms”, yet they seem more willing than ever to yank them away from women who choose to express themselves via the way they dress. Doubly so if there is even a hint of a body part showing. This photograph is of a woman named Maggie McMuffin (I’m guessing that’s not her real name). Maggie is a burlesque dancer, and just this week, she attempted to fly from Massachusetts to Washington DC on a JetBlue flight. Except when she got to the gate, the flight crew put their heads together and collectively decided (along with the pilot(!?)...

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Entertainment

Hollywood Directors Scramble to Keira Knightley’s Defense

by Erin Gillespie

This is a rather interesting story, and I mean that ultimately in the refreshing sense of the word. Early this week in an interview with British news outlet The Independent, Hollywood director John Carney decided to attack Keira Knightley’s talent in what felt like a kind of out-of-the-blue way. Carney directed Knightley in the film Begin Again, which also starred Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine, and oddly, I think it’s been something like four years since the film came out. He was talking to the Independent because he has a new movie out called Sing Street, about an 80s band. Supposedly Sing Street is getting rave reviews, so the whole Keira thing seems even more off to me. You’ll notice that there are hardly ever any gossip stories floating around out there about Keira...

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