I recently posted on the perils (to society) of women attempting to enter masculine fields while I reviewed the charming film The Devil Wears Prada. I wrote about the young female protagonist:
Andy does make it into "real" journalism at the end of the film, securing a position at some New York Post type of newspaper, where she will be writing about social inequalities and other "issues." But she gets to keep her Gucci too. That's the trick: she gets it all! Which is what modern media wants young women to believe: wear your Diors and get that socially responsible degree. She should look pretty while saving the world. If the message is too hard-core, young, socially responsible women, who still want to look pretty if not beautiful, would be running as far away as possible from social consciousness.Once in a while, a woman enters the masculine sphere of running the world, and she is successful. I think we're seeing that with Michele Bachmann. She has hinted that she will run in the 2016 presidential elections, but in the meantime, she is setting America straight.
Try as political-destroyers might, they cannot find anything to damage her. But, no-one can fault beauty unless its benefactor turns wily. Bachmann is serious, and always looks serious. She is feminine because she is feminine (as in female). And her beauty and her femininity are not some crutch she uses to enter where she pleases. She looks like someone who earns her way.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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