On this fine Thursday evening I was trawling through blogs and I came across this quote from the power queen herself. I couldn't agree more!
Ms. Wintour: ”When women are in positions of power, and they’re featured in a women’s magazine like Vogue…they tend to be incredibly unfairly criticized. It’s an incredibly old-fashioned approach. Just because you’re in a position of power, and you look good and you enjoy fashion — does that mean you’re an idiot, or that it’s not seemly to be in a woman’s magazine? If a man is in GQ, they don’t get the same kind of criticism.”
Amennnnn (!).
It’s all very Elle Woods — being torn between wanting to be recognized as “serious” and embracing femininity. We’ve undertaken a patriarchal view of what it means to be powerful: in order to achieve and gain respect as a leader, one must abandon and forsake all aspects of woman-ity and take on masculine definitions of what power looks like. Here's to Anna Wintour!
W. x
