SGH, I’m all for differences of opinions and I agree that de gustibus non est disputandum, and all that jazz, but I’m not going to lie, your comment about gender norms angers me. It’s not like she’s holding a cigar and a cane, and even if she were, she’d look dapper doing it! Just imagine if she had a boy’s name! Escándalo total!
The thing is, none of us were born with clothes on your backs. The only thing covering your naked body when you came out of your mother’s womb was the amniotic fluid, ombilical cord and placenta. Considering that fact, I say gender norms, schmender norms! So if Kanye wants to rock a skirt, and if this indeed “pretty woman”, as you deemed her to be, wants to rock the hell out of a suit, I personally say, gimme some more!
Might I add that what works for you doesn’t necessarily apply to others. So while following cultural gender norms has been your own staple, she has decided not to! What is this, the gender gestapo?!
And this has nothing to do with the fact that I wore bow ties and suspenders as well as pretty little dresses to school as a kid and looked absolutely adorable in either, and that I could hold my own on a skateboard while I also did ballet and figure skating. Or maybe it does, because I rock, and so does she, and so do you in your gender normative clothes!
Also, if that is your opinion, you should start with something that indicates that it is, because “This pretty woman would better present herself…” reads like an a priori (fallacy).
The bottom line is: you can voice your opinion, however, speak for yourself, not for this “pretty woman”, as what is true to you, isn’t to her, since chances are she would not have stepped out of her home dressed as such, thinking she was not presentable, unless it was a dare or something of the sort.
You seem to enjoy Latin, therefore: Non uno vinculo vincit vinciens diversa (“one size does not fit all”).
I wonder what your opinion is on one of my favorite pictures on this site: http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/at-dries-van-noten-paris-p-1/
What about Marlene Dietrich and her gender-bending fashion? Women with boys names, as I previously joked? Or haircuts à la garçonne?
I’m not mocking you, I am genuinely curious.