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Kate Ellis sends mixed messages with simmering Grazia photo shoot : Comments
By Lydia Turner, published 15/4/2010Tight-fitting leather and dominatrxi heels - another body image blunder for Youth Minister Ellis?
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There I was thinking men just liked looking at beautiful woman, when really it's all a conspiracy to take focus off their other attributes that are 'threatening'.
By that rationale, no stupid women would ever be 'sexualised'. Women are sexual beings, they cant be sexualised.
Oh, I get it. If you're a girl with a brain, you have no right to dress in attractive clothing, and no one else should be allowed to find you attractive. Intelligent women should take their lead from feminists and refuse to express themselves in the way they want and become asexual identities.
Perhaps women can be smart AND sexy. Radical I know.
'Instead of giving in to the pressure to sexualise herself,'
Hang on. I thought she was an independent intelligent woman with her own mind? Now she's a brainless drone that is giving in to 'pressure'?
'So many of the comments posted in response to Ellis’ photoshoot have been about whether she is ‘hot or not.” Because that’s what counts.'
Yes it is, IN THAT CONTEXT! Geez.
' while catering to the sexual fantasies of men.'
By wearing some boots and not going into a feminist lecture in response to being told she's sexy?
'Given that girls and women are already taught that their worth is measured by how sexually desirable they are, having our Youth Minister reiterate that message just trivialises an issue she seems to care deeply about.'
I rather think she sets the example that you can be sexy and intelligent and contribute to society in a positive way.
BTW: I don't see any feminists jump up and down about the millions of references to Tony Abbot in speedos. If the treatment about the budgy smugglers was aimed at Gillard in a bikini there would be an outrage-athon.