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Liz Jones, regular bitch and vacuous waste of space seems to have no sense of irony either in her latest article: The Cuddle, the Twiddle, the Dangle...why do women infantilise themselves?. She starts:
It beggars belief. A cover line on the new issue of Vogue screams helpfully: ‘The new way to carry your bag.’ Oooh, really? Sod world hunger and the recession, let’s see what it says inside. Apparently, there are not one but four new ways to carry a handbag.
And continues:
It seems women these days are not only supposed to look like children, with big eyes and gangly limbs and smooth, poreless skin, they are supposed to think like infants, too.
I guess Liz Jones doesn't ever glance at the Daily Mail's coverage of women or remember some of her own articles: 'Is Zara Phillips turning into her Royal WAG-ness?', 'Forget the models on the catwalk, what really matters at fashion shows is who sits where', 'The trick is to learn from our mistakes: Liz Jones makes a confession after her style blast at Frankie Burnham' and on and on and on.
Not all Daily Mail readers have such a short memory though:
Er, yes Liz. But then most of us don't work as fashion journalists, telling women that we simply have to follow your example and buy new dresses, clothes and shoes for a few hundred pounds each every few weeks so we can stay fashionable - or believe that we should. Perhaps you're one of those who have contributed to infantilizing women - and have been infantilized in turn, forever insecure and chasing youth and beauty at the expense of anything more profound or meaningful than the adolescent world of the transient and trendy.
I'd also say, however, that any adult women stupid enough to believe that they have to starve and virtually bankrupt themselves sheepishly following others' advice on how to look and what to wear are (if they're not technically learning disabled, that is) voluntarily infantilizing themselves - nobody is forcing them to behave that way, so blaming the media is a bit of an easy cop-out.
- Ruth, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/4/2009 21:32
Hats off to Ruth for getting that one past the mods. It doesn't end there though:
Well, Liz, can I suggest you try a few minutes of self-reflection. Because, if we are talking about creating a perception of women as infants, you're probably out there with the front- runners. But we know why you do it - for the cash! As you say 'we all have something to sell'.
I don't have a problem with women who work hard for their money (like Cheryl Cole) buying anything the h*ll they want. We NEED people going out and spending their money. It is the duty of people with money to get out there and spend it because that, Liz, will keep other people in jobs. Some other, normal person actually makes those Louis Vuitton handbags, you know, they are not created by little elves in a fairy bower!
The tabloids creating a climate where rich people are scared to spend their money because they are on one of their bizarre witch-hunts is what is really, truly infantile!
- AKF, North of Watford, 11/4/2009 22:50
Wonderful, it is not often a Daily Mail commentator deserves praise, but AFK deserves spades of it. The bashing doesn't end there:
Is this the same Liz Jones who never shuts up about her Prada handbag and her Botego Venetto (sp?) sandals?
This poor woman has never been able to fill a column without referencing her £1,000 cardigans, horse blankets and toilet seat covers.
- Laura Scott, Brighton UK, 11/4/2009 22:54
Liz, would you prefer to be the pot or the kettle in this little argument? Vogue is a fashion magazine, predominantly about fashion. Hardly ground breaking. Yes, some of their articles and features are frivolous drivel, but that is somewhat the point. I love reading Vogue, as I love reading many other publications, some frivolous drivel and others serious "quality" publications about important issues. I do think this is quite an exceptional attack from a woman who dedicates columns to feeding mice organic granola and how she cant live without makeup. Oh and lets not forget the book about the love affair with a horse. Ground breaking, I'm sure.
- Nikki, Chichester, West Sussex, 12/4/2009 1:23
Liz also happens to write a different weekly comment, which some people just happen to have read:
Liz, in your YOU magazine article today, you say, " I will always be a girl, not a woman". This is hardly consistent with what you have written above.
You ask the question: "why do women infantilise themselves?". Why do you infantilise yourself by describing yourself as a girl?
- Susannah, Berkshire, UK, 12/4/2009 11:33
And then we turn to your other weekly column and find:
>The three lambs (they will always be lambs, not sheep, much as I will always be a girl, not a woman)
Er, quite. Why DO some women infantilise themselves? You're not a girl. You're 50.
- Liz, Bristol, UK, 12/4/2009 11:38
I could go on, but I can't be bothered to copy and paste any more insights from Mail readers on what a hypocritical turd Liz Jones is. |
