Posted on 06/25/2015 10:38:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Caitlyn Jenner may have snagged that Vanity Fair cover, but she’s not the only photogenic trans woman making moves and shaking up the game.
Despite the ever-present specter of tokenism, openly transgender models have in the past few years forged an important presence in fashion — on top runways, in glossy editorials and even in high-profile campaigns. There’s still a long way to go, but as a toast to progress and Pride month (celebrated internationally in June), here are five barrier-smashing stunners who represent a good start.
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A good start on what, exactly?
Nonsense, only if the media and the culture allows it.
I’d hit ‘em!
(With a brick.)
Ugh. I’m pretty sure Needless Markup is using some of these. Either that, or some very coarse featured women. It’s just gross.
For many years, now, homosexuals have taken it upon themselves to inform heterosexuals as to what, exactly, an attractive actress or model should be; little wonder, then, that they’ve now begun to mimic that bogus standard.
>>For many years, now, homosexuals have taken it upon themselves to inform heterosexuals as to what, exactly, an attractive actress or model should be; little wonder, then, that they’ve now begun to mimic that bogus standard.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/05/the-homophobia-of-jack-paar.html
“Fairies and Communists by Jack Paar”
...We occasionally have fashion shows on our program so I’ve had a chance to observe at firsthand the havoc that limp-wristed designers and hair dressers and make-up men have wrought upon once beautiful girls. When they finish accentuating the hollow cheeks, the pallor and the blue circles under the eyes, the models look less made-up than embalmed. One night a group of them trooped out modeling bathing suits and they were so skinny and unfeminine I thought it was the mile relay team from the YMCA. Gradually I’ve become so accustomed to seeing these bony, boyish figures that I was pleasantly surprised one night when one model appeared displaying a full-blown figure with ample curves. Later I commented backstage on how rare it was now to see a model with curves. Our wardrobe lady chuckled cynically. “When she took off that bathing suit and dropped it on the floor,” she said, “it bounced for five minutes.”
Another lovely girl who managed to escape the ministrations of the fairy Svengalis is the 1961 Miss Universe, Marlene Schmidt. She is a tall, ravishing blonde with a figure like God intended woman to have, without alterations by Slenderella or some delicate designer. I asked her measurements and she told me they were 95-45-95! This was in centimeters, it turned out, but even measured in inches her endowments were opulent. The reason she still possessed her naturally lovely figure and rosy-cheeked, healthy face, I discovered, was that she was a recent refuge from East Germany and our fairy fashion fraternity hadn’t gotten their clutches on her yet. Because of all this I’ve started my campaign to save our starving models by sending them CARE packages. For Christmas I plan to send my friends cards with notes saying that donations in their names have been made to Jinx Falkenburg.
I hope that all red-blooded men will rally to my crusade to have girls look like girls again. If we show our determination I’m sure that women will throw off the tyranny of fairy designers. They have nothing to lose but their falsies. Meantime, I must go now and give a blood transfusion to Suzy Parker
- Jack Paar, December 1961, My Saber Is Bent - Chapter 14 - Fairies and Communists (1961, Pocket Books)
Why is this stuff SO IMPORTANT to these people? If gender is just a meaningless social construct (as they claim), why should it matter if people mix genders? Why should it matter for a man to dress as a woman, if dress conventions are just social BS? It seems to me that - more and more - liberalism is tripping over its own presuppositions.
They are worthless.
So now they can take jobs away from real women.
Some of them can pass; some of them still look like men.
Words of insight and wisdom from one of the Greats in the entire history of late night television.
Say the same things today, and you’d be in the bread line within the week, with a crowd of homosexuals standing around and shaking their fists in your face.
I’m glad I’m old and will be Moving On soon...
lol. Can you name me anything right now that the media and culture aren’t allowing?
>>Why is this stuff SO IMPORTANT to these people? If gender is just a meaningless social construct (as they claim), why should it matter if people mix genders? Why should it matter for a man to dress as a woman, if dress conventions are just social BS? It seems to me that - more and more - liberalism is tripping over its own presuppositions.
It’s all a bunch of Feminazi marxist bullstalin.
They see it as “taking away a man’s power”. SMASH THE PATRIARCHY
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200158/posts
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett
“When women go wrong men go right after them.” – Mae West
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill wrote this over a century ago.
During my junior year in high school, the nuns asked about our plans for after we graduated. When I said I was going to attend State University, I noticed their disappointment. I asked my favorite nun, “Why?” She answered, “That means you’ll leave four years later a communist and an atheist!”
What a giggle we girls had over that. “How ridiculously unsophisticated these nuns are,” we thought. Then I went to the university and four years later walked out a communist and an atheist, just as my sister Katie had six years before me.
Sometime later, I was a young divorcee with a small child. At the urging of my sister, I relocated to NYC after spending years married to an American executive stationed in Southeast Asia. The marriage over, I was making a new life for my daughter and me. Katie said, “Come to New York. We’re making revolution! Some of us are starting the National Organization of Women and you can be part of it.”
I hadn’t seen her for years. Although she had tormented me when we were youngsters, those memories were faint after my Asian traumas and the break-up of my marriage. I foolishly mistook her for sanctuary in a storm. With so much time and distance between us, I had forgotten her emotional instability.
And so began my period as an unwitting witness to history. I stayed with Kate and her lovable Japanese husband, Fumio, in a dilapidated loft on The Bowery as she finished her first book, a PhD thesis for Columbia University, “Sexual Politics.”
It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:
“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.
They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.
It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish...
More pics please
You jerk. How could you leave out the gorgeous 3rd generation?
The author actually wrote, and his publisher published, the statement that Bruce Jenner is a photogenic woman.
Eggzackly. If dress conventions were ironclad, there might be some point to smashing them as a rebellious act, but how long has it been since a women wearing jeans or trousers was even noticed, much less condemned?
Admittedly, a man wearing a skirt still draws attention. At least outside San Fran.
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