This article takes a current look at feminism and how it's affecting the college campus today. It reminded me of the Simone de Beauvoir we read at many parts, in that many women felt the need to dress up(or down depending on how you look at it...) in order to assert themselves in society, whereas the males have no need to do such things. Men are men, yet women have to choose: to distinguish themselves from all things male, or to associate themselves with masculine characteristics. I am also currently enrolled in a lit class concerned with Fashion and modernity, and through readings of Woolf, Veblen and other theorists, i'm finding that fashion plays an enormous role in feminism, in that it has not changed over the years, or made advances in the respect that women still feel the need to utilize it as a way of making themselves unique, or as a way of projecting success for their male counterpart. The men can show up to the Academy Awards, and will always look 'suave' in a suit and tie, whereas women receive critique, and eventually their dates receive bonus points if the women did a good job dressing themselves that night. My ruminations are a bit scattered here, however I found this article to be thought provoking and relevant.
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