January 7, 2018

"We actresses are not just modeling clothing when we walk a red carpet on award show night. We are modeling a kind of behavior."

"We are speaking in a coded language to other women — even young girls — that says: The way I look and what I wear and how I wear it is the standard for women. What is being worn is not an exception. It is the rule. You must dress a certain way and look a certain way if you want to be valued as a woman, no matter what you do for a living or who you are. We never intend for this to be the message we are sending with what we wear, but often it is the perceived one, whether we like it or not."

If is not the message you intend to convey, then you are not speaking.

The writing is by the actress Amber Tamblyn, published in the NYT as the Golden Globes are about to happen this evening. The plan tonight, which Tamblyn supports, is for all the women to wear black. I'm going to watch to see how that works out. I'm not sure that everyone wearing the same color is the best way to send whatever the message is supposed to be, but Tamblyn says:
What we are wearing is not a statement of fashion. It is a statement of action. It is a direct message of resistance. Black because we are powerful when we stand together with all women across industry lines. Black because we’re starting over, resetting the standard. Black because we’re done being silenced and we’re done with the silencers. Tonight is not a mourning. Tonight is an awakening.
So that is the message that Tamblyn intends to convey, but is it the message every woman who feels disciplined into wearing black wants to send? Is it the message that will be received? Tamblyn tries to preempt one meaning of black clothing: mourning. But she just got done saying that unintended messages are "often... perceived... whether we like it or not."

She doesn't want to be controlled, but she aims to control us, the audience, but she knows she can't. Moviemakers show us images, and there is complexity to the meaning. You can't force us to see the images in a particular, controlled way, even in the most carefully made film. So it is clearly impossible to dictate the impact that will be made by giant crowd of actresses in black and by individual actresses within that crowd.

I'll watch with an open mind.

156 comments:

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Or we're just indulging in self-dramatizing douchery.

eddie willers said...

Black is the new black.

tcrosse said...

March of the Italian Grandmothers.

Paco Wové said...

"It is a statement of action."

When they get around to actions of action ... well, just watch out!

bgates said...

#GoldenGlobesSoBlackBecauseThatsTheBestColorWithNoNegativeConnotations

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Black. Throw on a mask and boom - Antifa.

zipity said...

I'll watch while holding my nose.

I'm sure it will be a Trump-Bashing fest. One more chance for Hollyweird to give mainstream America a giant middle-finger.

Good luck trying to sell tickets to your next movie.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Self-congratulatory fools need to lecture the deplorables. And the lecture never stops.

I have no idea why so many people pay attention to awards shows or Hillarywood in general.
It's all leftwing, all the time.

Sprezzatura said...

This chick grew up in the same hood as that Miller dork. I wonder if they crossed paths.

http://laist.com/2017/02/12/samohi_stephen_miller.php

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Hillarywood is heavy on group-think. Now - group outfits. Feel the resistance.

eh - Go back to wearing see-thu crotchless mesh. We promise Harvey won't peek.

Matt said...

Ahhhhhh, Hollywood award shows.

Where's a muslim with an airplane when you need one?

walter said...

Wrong thread 'sitter.

Hey..will these women still tape their breasts and rock the Spanx?

Temujin said...

A bullet fired in a vacuum makes no noise. I'd have to watch to get their message and that's not happening.

Whatever the message might be, I'm not sure that wearing black with a slit up to your pupik is a good way to show your value as a woman. On the other hand...it's all about the ratings and buzz, no? The message is secondary, if that.

Rob said...

Conform or pay the consequences. The Golden Globes are only one example. See Kramer and the AIDS ribbon.

Patrick Henry was right! said...

Probably looks like the Roundhead Parliment. Same thinking patterns at work.

eddie willers said...

I don't know who did more to ruin House M.D..
Amber Tamblyn or Olivia Wilde?

Original Mike said...

"What is being worn is not an exception. It is the rule. You must dress a certain way and look a certain way if you want to be valued as a woman,"

Self-important, much?

AMDG said...

They should all where hijabs on the red carpet and then during the presentation of the first award rise all together and remove them in solidarity with the women of Iran.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Sting on the public’s interpretation of his song Every Breath You Take...

Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.'"[12] When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."

Spiros said...

These women should have gone on strike. A picket line in front of the Beverly Hilton would have been more compelling and hilarious.

walter said...

Full nudity would make a powerful statement about clothing expectations.

mccullough said...

The NFL must be ecstatic that Hollywood has fucked up so much. Pretty soon people will just read books and listen to baseball on the radio for entertainment

TDP said...

Ok. So, hyper-expensive black gowns, worn by hyper-privileged, virtue-signaling extraordinaire celebrity-women, is a "direct resistance", a "stand ... with all women across all industry lines" and an "awakening". Right.

But not mourning? Black is the color of mourning. I asked my wife. She laughed and said it's obviously a signal of mourning for Harvey Weinstein and the rapidly collapsing fortunes of Hollywood itself. "Awakening", she said, "is white".

But white would be signaling racist.

Is there a good word for thermonuclear stupid-vacuous other than "Hollywood Liberal"?

eddie willers said...

Pretty soon people will just read books and listen to baseball on the radio for entertainment

Making America Great Again!

(and outlaw rap)

mccullough said...

Maybe they are wearing black because their taxes are going up

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

If you want to send a message, use Western Union.

PB said...

And, of course, they wouldn't want a dress that highlights their, um, assets in a way that would cause men to stare, because good men don't stare no matter how much is exposed. Yeah, right. They want to flaunt everything they've got.

Sebastian said...

"for all the women to wear black." Nothing like a herd of black sheep to demonstrate agency and autonomy.

Seeing Red said...

We are speaking in a coded language to other women — even young girls — that says: The way I look and what I wear and how I wear it is the standard for women.


So what was the message when they wear see through clothing or cut down to there or up to here?


Or they look like bag ladies?

My 20 yo daughter asked yesterday while we were watching a B/W Bette Davis movie--they dressed elegantly. Why don't they dress that way now?

Jon Ericson said...

Let us know how it turns out, please.

Ken B said...

Weinstein couldn’t enforce a blacklist on his own. It took “go along to get along” conformism. Just like, say, everyone wearing black.

Who is reproached by Streep, who knew and said nothing, and all the others who knew and said nothing wearing black?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

People don’t “behave” in front of the camera. They put on an act.

“Genius/Thank you”

Humperdink said...

Will Meryl Streep being wearing a scarlet W tonight?

Sydney said...

@Seeing Red - my thoughts exactly. If they believe how they dress sets a standard for young girls, then they should be ashamed of themselves because for the past twenty years (maybe more), they've been sending the message that women are sluts.

buwaya said...

The usual "little black dress" tends to send quite a different message. They go very well with blondes. Laslo could have explained this. Perhaps he doesnt have to.

The alternatives, that would actually be in keeping with messaging, are Dolores Ibarruri outfits, if not Abayas.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I’m watching GOT and I don’t think I can pull away for another award show about movies I haven’t seen.

I’m all awarded out.

I mean, as soon as a political commentator starts I would be clicking away anyway, so why bother?

I recently got a tv and I got the package w/o the cable news channels. No way I’m going to allow them to slip in through an award show.

rhhardin said...

Going topless would get the best ratings.

Free the nipple.

glenn said...

While you are watching (with or without an open mind) don’t forget that everybody on the Red Carpet and in the room knew exactly what Harvey and his thugly pals were up to. For years. And did nothing to stop him. Or his pals. Ever.

rhhardin said...

Black pussy hats for everybody.

Tampon earrings.

Side boobs.

JML said...

"What is being worn is not an exception. It is the rule. You must dress a certain way and look a certain way if you want to be valued as a woman,"

fifth picture - nice side boob. I do value side boob on women.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=115569101

rhhardin said...

Women demonstrate and guys just do stuff that needs doing.

It's the way women get guys to do stuff for them.

Stamping of tiny foot.

Matt said...

#TimesUp for ladies who think they'll get roles by not putting out. Cuz there's a hundred girls behind them who are just as talented and will. Hash tags don't change human nature.

Are any of the less-famous ladies wearing "She won't but I will" pins? Good advertising. Or brand management. Or whatever they call it.

rhhardin said...

That's not a side boob. It's cleavage.

Side boob is the arm-side of the boob, usually one that hangs a little.

Know your red carpet.

MathMom said...

We never intend for this to be the message we are sending with what we wear, but often it is the perceived one, whether we like it or not."

What we perceive is that you are sluts, and I call BS on the part about not intending that to be the message.

Dude1394 said...

They should wear pussy hats as well. The black and pink will mesh nicely.

rhhardin said...

Red carpet would be Julianne Moore you'd think.

Roughcoat said...

La Passionaria, heh.

gg6 said...

Oh, yes, yes, "Black because..."
Black because BS.
Black because it's a camo outfit.
Black because it's a distraction.
Black because it's non-verbal dissembling.
Black because it's the appearance of saying or doing something while saying or doing nothing.
Black because it says blah blah blah but still means 'look at my awesome body'.
Black because BS.

rhhardin said...

Paglia writes sensibly about women, as does Derrida (though the one declares herself to be the enemy of the other).

Nobody is looking for good readings of the war between the sexes.

Just posturing and beta-male concern sells today.

Alpha-male ridicule of it is there but has no news legs.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

The only things remotely interesting about awards shows are the evening gowns. If every woman is wearing a different style of black dress, how boring is that?

rhhardin said...

I wonder why women want to be admired by lots of men.

Just one would be enough. Focus, ladies.

Then the idea of a demonstration would be self-dismissing.

Just ask the guy for what you want. Probably he'd be thrilled to please you.

The one guy that mattered.

rhhardin said...

It would be creative to wear glass slippers.

Even if the original was thought to be a mistranslation of fur.

Darrell said...

Mind the gash.

rhhardin said...

Jean Shepherd was always sorry he missed Cinderella and the Golden Bra. It was there on 42nd street for months and then it was gone, he said sometime in the 60s.

None of these ladies wears a bra.

rhhardin said...

Black is one way of avoiding a cameltoe, unless the lighting is really good.

Bay Area Guy said...

These glamorous women should all take a knee at the Oscars.

n.n said...
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rhhardin said...

Meryl Streep has been in a lot of really boring films as star, but okay as a supporting actress.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) for instance.

She's not going for being the important one, so does better.

n.n said...

"I never loved you! I've been using you to further my career."

And thus the reckoning progressed... with fire and fury, signifying pretext.

Walk like a Slut in the feminist fashion. No one of of consequence or committee cares about bottom-ware. You can wear a Pussy... hat, if you dare.

Will Cate said...

I've never watched the Golden Globe Awards in my life, and my streak remains unbroken this evening.

n.n said...

Didn't Meryl Streep reject female chauvinism and discover humanity?

JML said...

rhhardin said...
That's not a side boob. It's cleavage.

I am humbled and thankful for your knowledge! You are the breast master!

And OK, nice cleavage on her. I'm thankful to her for sharing!

tcrosse said...
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FIDO said...

Isn't a hajib also all black? Isn't it designed to convey a total lack of sexual enticement?

So...these women are attempting to say 'don't be silent and join a resistance...which wants to suppress men's appreciation of women'.

Hmm. Bold choices. Particularly from a group of women whose only coin they can offer society IS their appearance.

Unless these women decide to speak directly to me and tell me things I want to hear (like 'it's really hot out and this shirt is WAY too stifling'), I don't have much truck with any of these actresses.

They remain silent with the current set of power players. They are making choices to burn out the dead wood but not burn out the entire rot.

rhhardin said...

"You knew."

What does it mean when we say you know something Cavell The Claim of Reason

He knows there's a green jar of pencils on his desk.

tcrosse said...

Jean Shepherd was always sorry he missed Cinderella and the Golden Bra

But he managed to write I Libertine.But not this:Bahn Frei

Matt Sablan said...

Black is a weird color for this statement since at formal occasions... wearing black is *normal*. Someone who doesn't know about the protest/statement may very well wear black and NOT want to voice support (or at least, it is wrong to claim they are supporting you when they didn't know their color coding meant something.)

They should've picked a color that you would have had to consciously chosen to wear.

Unknown said...

Are there still actresses these days? I thought we had to refer to them as actors.

rhhardin said...

As long as there are blondes, there are actresses.

Unknown said...

Not that I’m watching, but as I understand it rich Hollywood people are wearing $1000’s in black to protest their peers in a united effort to show us normals good virtue while celebrating themselves. Makes total sense

rhhardin said...

There's a site of Jean Shepherd shows somewhere. A guy who used to play them on WBAI ran it. I have a couple hundred shows on the HD, but where the site is I no longer know.

Bay Area Guy said...

Better idea:

To register their protest against sexual harassment in Hollywood, they should go topless, with sunglasses, wearing pussy hats.

It will make a statement.

Darrell said...

Is anyone wearing the "I Put Out" buttons I sent over?

tcrosse said...

There's a site of Jean Shepherd shows somewhere.

I used to listen to Shep on WOR from New York back in the early 60's, when he was doing it live. He was followed by another raconteur, Long John Nebel.

Wince said...

Gray with dark polka dots would have representated the predicament better, and permitted a greater degree of variation and individual expression.

But I gather from this post that isn't even remotely the goal of the people here in power who get to decide these things.

rhhardin said...

Amusing NYT ad on Shep, wherein he mocks C.L.Sulzberger in the 60s.

http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/shep.clsulzberger.ra

(Real Audio)

Spaceman said...

Pretty tame so far with respect to politics aside from the Handmaid's Tale getting 2 awards in that there were plenty of analogies drawn last year between the repressive Trump regime. Considering that the entertainment business is leading the pack in sexual assault allegations, they would hard pressed to say much more than generic statements. Sharon Stone showing plenty off plenty of cleavage boob for the #metoo support.

gspencer said...

Next week's winners,
Patriots
Steelers
Atlanta Falcons
NO Saints

FIDO said...

If a woman wears a statement dress to an award show and no one watches, was a statement actually made?

tim in vermont said...

Did they all wear burkas, like they promised? I don’t know, I was watching a cool documentary on Hitchcock.

Wince said...

I actually like Allison Janney's variation...wait, whooo...Whaaat?..

Did she just use a paean to introduce Tonya Harding, who's actually there as a celebrity guest?

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Wince said...

Is that Micheal Douglas up there with Katherine Zeta Jones?

Man, he got old.

tim in vermont said...

"We are speaking in a coded language to other women — even young girls — that says: The way I look and what I wear and how I wear it is the standard for women. What is being worn is not an exception. It is the rule. You must dress a certain way and look a certain way if you want to be valued as a woman, no matter what you do for a living or who you are. We never intend for this to be the message we are sending with what we wear, but often it is the perceived one, whether we like it or not.”

That’s true about everything in movies.

Henry said...

How about Carhartt?

rhhardin said...

I do stuff that's valued but not valued as a man.

What's with valued as a woman.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Seeing Red said...

My 20 yo daughter asked yesterday while we were watching a B/W Bette Davis movie--they dressed elegantly. Why don't they dress that way now?

I used to say a similar thing to my wife when Mad Men was running. The actresses always looked like women when they were done up in their 1960's finery, but if you saw them outside the show they all dressed like high school girls.

Henry said...

Or how about not attending the stupid Hollywood-promoting show?

walter said...

AMDG said...They should all where hijabs on the red carpet and then during the presentation of the first award rise all together and remove them in solidarity with the women of Iran.
--
Supporting them is supporting Trump..somehow. Ain't gonna happen.

tim in vermont said...

My 20 yo daughter asked yesterday while we were watching a B/W Bette Davis movie--they dressed elegantly. Why don't they dress that way now?

My daughter said the exact same thing yesterday about an Audrey Hepburn movie.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The women in black are wearing Versace.

tim in vermont said...

Meryl Streep was pretty good as Meryl Streep in “Stuck On You.” But what a shame she fatally marred that movie “Ricky and the Flash” What a great little four piece rock band they put together for that movie, with Rick Springfield. Maybe somebody could save that movie by using CGI to put a bag over her head throughout.

Wince said...

Looks like Jeff Bezos bought his way into the glittery awards show circuit.

n.n said...

I thought they wore black to mourn the unknown child deemed unworthy, inconvenient, or profitable.

Genius! Thank you!

You can be a woman, a thespian, a friend with "benefits", and still slap the man silly... silly man. The key is in the timing, delivery, and sincerity. Poise! Action!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

So I take it this year would be a bad time to streak this show?

Or is streaking not included in the victimization package.

Wince said...

I liked the Geico commercial with the sloth playing Pictionary at the house party.

rhhardin said...

HG: - Tell you what. All I want is someone as intelligent as you...but a little less tense and argumentative. A sort of Katharine Hepburn figure.

SB: You don't deserve Katharine Hepburn.

HG: - Audrey Hepburn.

SB: - Also too good. Just stay away from the Hepburns.

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Wince said...

How can Oprah in any way extol the role of "the press" in the current Hollywood sex harassment scandal?

Was Ronan Farrow invited to this event broadcast on NBC?

walter said...

TDP said.... "Awakening", she said, "is white".
--
But...black is slimming.

Kathryn51 said...

Tim at large said...

My daughter said the exact same thing yesterday about an Audrey Hepburn movie.

Part of my daughter's "education" (she is 26) was watching old Audrey Hepburn movies with me - "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Charade", "Sabrina", "My Fair Lady". She will never have Hepburn's figure, but she understands the terms "style", elegance, and slutty. So proud of her - and I never had to say very much.

As to my son, we watched quite a few Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart (especially Hitchcock) movies - he gets it as well. Proud of him as well - he's getting married this summer and he and his fiancée recently mentioned that they are worried about how most of their their mid-20 friends will behave at the wedding because it is a first for their "group".

David said...

EDH said...
Looks like Jeff Bezos bought his way into the glittery awards show circuit.


Big buyer of "content." The fact that the guy he hired to run that part of the Empire proved to be one of the abusers slowed them down a bit.

Big Mike said...

The red carpet gallery is up on HuffPo. Most of the actresses do NOT lock good in black. Exception is Catherine Zeta-Jones, whose face is a little more pinched-looking than in her heyday but her dress leaves little to the imagination. And I have a very good imagination.

Bilwick said...


"She doesn't want to be controlled, but she wants to control. . . ." That pretty much summarizes modern American "liberalism" in one sentence.

Tonight's Golden Globes will have to go along way to match this past Spring's Tony awards for "liberal" fat-headedness. The highlight for me was when Cynthia Nixon, winning her award for a revival of "The Little Foxes," spoke for The Resistance by quoting from the play, something rousing about taking a stand against evil people. The author of the play was Lillian Hellman. Savor the irony.

walter said...

“We’re here tonight courtesy of the Hollywood Foreign Press — a string of three words that could not be better designed to infuriate our president. Hollywood. Foreign. Press. The only name that could make his angrier is the Hillary Mexico Salad Association.”

Good grief.

chickelit said...

@walter: that same Trump/Hollywood Press joke was used last year. How lame.

chickelit said...

When even jokes are recycled, you know they've finally bottomed out.

walter said...

Was gonna say just that, chickelit.
(Hollywood does love its recycling..)
Ya know..Ivana, Melania...
Sure signs of a xenophobe.
But..isn't Putin foreign?

Wince said...

Frances McDormand dressed like Joan of Ark tied to the stake.

walter said...

These women couldn't even do black straight up.
Clicked on a gallery and first woman shown has orange and other colors in the mix.

n.n said...

How can Oprah in any way extol the role of "the press" in the current Hollywood sex harassment scandal?

Good question.

They can't see Obama/Clinton/DNC colluding with domestic and foreign (e.g. Kiev, Soviet) assets to spy on Republicans, deny the Democrat vote, and influence the election, but they can see Russia from New York.

They didn't see friendship with "benefits" (e.g. casting couch relationships), sexualization of children (e.g. Planned Parenthood), targeting prepubescent and adolescent children for transgender conversion therapy (e.g. homosexual), but they can see uncorroborated allegations after multi-trimester, even multidecadal gaps.

The cognitive dissonance is deafening and progressive.

Wince said...

Sucky production values.

They cut out awkwardly and zoomed in on a chandelier.

Don't they know us "deplorables" like to gawk at celebrity cameos?

They didn't want us to see our betters hightailing it out of there?

Night Owl said...

I didn't watch. Did any of them thank Pres. Trump? After all, this "reckoning" wouldn't have happened if Hillary had won.

walter said...

Ah..Oprah definitely had "the girls" taped between the speech and the customary backdrop pic.

chickelit said...

So proud of my wife and daughter for NOT watching the Golden Globes tonight.

/virtue signaling

Bilwick said...

Speaking of Jean Shepherd: I think about him a lot these days, and not just because of "A Christmas Story." He never explicitly delved into politics (thank God), probably because he thought it stupid to turn to entertainers for political enlightenment. But he said enough that you could get the feeling he had seen what "liberalism" was becoming, and that it wasn't pretty. I remember he took particular exception to a bumper sticker of the time, "If you're human you'll vote for . . ." Shep wouldn't name the candidate only humans would vote for, but I remember the bumper sticker, and it was for McGovern against Nixon. He said something like, "Really? People who vote for a different candidate than you'd vote for aren't human? Seriously?" I also remember him poking fun at the insularity of the Politically Pious, and how--if he pointed out their biases--would indignantly say something like, "Well, that's not bias! That's just how enlightened people think!"

Fritz said...

Well, I'm glad that scandal is behind us.

walter said...

Oprah: Hurry Stedman!!
Stedman: More tape!


Amy Kaufman
‏Verified account @AmyKinLA
27m27 minutes ago

I asked Stedman if @oprah would run for President. "It's up to the people. She would absolutely do it."
213 replies 1,097 retweets 2,785 likes

FIDO said...

I dunno. It sounds like a lot of you people actually watched this thing.

I was watching Ozark, hoping the libtard wife who spouted faith in Obama somehow died. Not yet, but one can hope.

eric said...

Someone please tell me Oprah is going to run for President in 2020 and lecture all of us about our morale values. I can't wait to hear more of her sermonizing!

n.n said...

this "reckoning" wouldn't have happened if Hillary had won

The feminist political paradox.

Anonymous said...

"Black because we are powerful when we stand together ... resetting the standard. Black because we’re done being silenced and we’re done with the silencers..."

Wait till the Academy reinstate Weinstein. They are regretting kicking him out. The repulsive silencer is more powerful, more valuable than you lot. And you are not done with the silencers because you don't "stand together", you stab each other, do whatever you can, even sleep with repulsive silencers to get that starring role. You all knew! In real life no one believes you.

AllenS said...

Oprah Winfrey for President, and Whoopi Goldberg for Vice-President.

Their platform moto: I be wearing black

Darrell said...

Standing ovation for Kirk Douglas. Say, isn't he a well-known serial rapist? Natalie Wood was one of his victims.

Darrell said...

Natalie Wood was 15 when Kirk Douglas raped her. Her mother said it would be good for her career.

RichardJohnson said...

NorthOfTheOneOhOne:
I used to say a similar thing to my wife when Mad Men was running. The actresses always looked like women when they were done up in their 1960's finery, but if you saw them outside the show they all dressed like high school girls.

Some high school girls in the 1960s wore rather elegant clothing. I recall my sister wearing a turquoise wool skirt w a turquoise sweater. When she became a hippie after high school she gave away all her good clothing.

walter said...

So..what % of black clad "golden globes" gals had augmented globes?

BJM said...

> rhhardin said...
Women demonstrate and guys just do stuff that needs doing.

It's the way women get guys to do stuff for them.

Stamping of tiny foot.


In my experience, that only breeds resentment. Men respond to kindness, attention, flattery and, of course, a little cleavage and/or a nice pair of gams doesn't hurt. It ain't rocket science.

William said...

I didn't get to see it, but the snark here has been excellent. I can think of no other group more worthy of our snark and disdain. I get the sense from these comments that the stars weren't humbled and apologetic about the load their industry dropped on the ballroom floor.. Is there any force on earth that can make them stop acting self righteous? ........I did see a picture of Kirk Douglas. There's a downside to living to one hundred.

walter said...

Well William..putting Kirk next to CZJ makes her look young.
Btw, did CZJ run out of hyphens?

MacMacConnell said...

I viewed the women's gowns from a link on Drudge. The black worked, but not for the protest. The black worked because it hid all the usual design extremes these gowns usually exhibit.

And yes, at almost any suburban high school or college in 1965 the women exhibited more class and personal style than these actresses do in their personal wardrobes.

BJM said...

I watched a bit of the E! red carpet. Ironically the all black dress meme was more of a lugubrious cliche than a power statement.

dgstock said...

Amber Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn. Right. The woman who is uncertain about men identifying as females who may be denied abortion rights.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/amber-tamblyn-lot-learn-trans-womens-reproductive-rights/

Good grief

Jason said...

I am so utterly sick of all these assholes.

William said...

I just got caught up on Drudge. Apparently Oprah was the big hit of the night, and Meryl is urging her to run for President. This is horribly, unimaginably worse than anything I could have imagined.

Achilles said...

It will be interesting to see what Oprah's policy positions are. I am betting the feelz will be strong with that one. She will have to remain skinny for about 2 years though. Good luck with that.

Unknown said...

I have previously mentioned the Guy Who Stares At Women's Asses Too Long, and -- for a quick recap -- here is his most distinguishing characteristic: He Stares At Women's Asses Too Long. I had said he was creepy, but did not seem particularly threatening. I'm not sure if I fully stand behind that statement anymore. While he doesn't have full Serial Killer Vibe, it seems like a mask is slipping, and that he doesn't really care if it is.

The Woman With The Smart Wardrobe caught him staring at her ass a few days ago, and told him to Fuck Off. As I have said before about her, she is not afraid to say such things. He has stared at her ass before, of course, but this time she responded. Maybe the effect had been cumulative; maybe she has had a change of patience about such things. Or maybe she has seen the mask slipping, too, and was firing a warning shot: she is perceptive, along with being a smart dresser. With a nice ass. Sorry, but true is true.

Many men live in a form of stasis for years, decades. They are who they are, and they are consistent, even if they only seem consistent in their inconsistency. Even these guys, you can at least tell where their inconsistency is going to go: some alcohol-related poor decision, most likely. It usually falls under "You know better than that," and they do, when they sober up: they have a sense of shame.

But the guys with the masks: when the mask slips, the ugly feelings show. Sure, we all have some ugly feelings: the Seven Deadly Vices probably cover them in some form or another. But for these guys, you can tell the shame is gone. They don't feel this is something they need to hide anymore. Maybe they are even angry at people for making them feel they had to hide themselves in the first place.

Which is the Serial Killer Vibe, pretty much.

The Woman With The Smart Wardrobe is not going to change how she dresses for anyone. If someone doesn't like it, well: Fuck Off. Usually it is other women who might make snide comments about her clothes. She probably chalks it up to jealousy, and she is probably right. She doesn't dress in an expensive manner, just with taste, and she cares for her clothes: they are clean, no wrinkles, no stains. It takes effort more than money, and some people blame the latter when they just don't possess the former. Most men appreciate her look, and I don't think she minds this at all.

Still, I feel a little wary now about the Guy Who Stares At Women's Asses Too Long. Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there; maybe he is having a spate of Bad Luck, and this is how Bad Luck looks on the guy.

But if I was a woman I wouldn't get in a car alone with him, now.

- james james

rhhardin said...

WABC radio's Noam Laden is enthusiastic about Oprah's speech, whatever she said.

He's a hard lefty.

rhhardin said...

The Metropolican Museum of Art is ending the pay-what's-appropriate admission for Republicans, aka out of staters. Apparently from each according to his abilities isn't working.

stevew said...

Um, someone should tell them that not everyone is watching and listening.

-sw

rehajm said...

I watched the Oprah speech. It was good. She's very good on TV. I think she makes a big mistake about the media. They aren't entitled to their own truth. Their own truth is weasel words for lies. She sure got all those powerful women in the room riled up. I wonder if they now feel powerful enough to utilize the justice system, the one with a presumption of innocence, or if they expect the new one ripe for abuse will continue.

If she ran for President could she cobble together enough knowledge of macroeconomics or foreign policy to fake it?

rehajm said...

The Warren/Kamala/Oprah/ Democratic debate would be fun. Throw Joe Biden in there for kicks.

Sebastian said...

"Apparently Oprah was the big hit of the night, and Meryl is urging her to run for President."

All is proceeding as foretold, in the comments on this very blog, back in 2016.

Ask me about 2024.

Biotrekker said...

Women have been wearing black for eons.They made no special effort.

iowan2 said...

I have scanned news across the internet, and I still have no idea who won any of the awards, not that I care. Who is surprised that the purpose of the gathering get almost no coverage.
FWIW, I have zero interest the opinion of a self centered entertainer, that has no interest in world outside their myopic view of the world

Fernandinande said...

"We actresses are not just modeling clothing when we walk a red carpet on award show night. We are modeling a kind of behavior."

The behavior they're modeling is walking while wearing clothes.

If they can chew gum at the same time I'll be impressed.

Caroline said...

Nothing says Sheeple like a well publicized black dress code.

LordSomber said...

Maximilian II and Josephine sure liked their movies.

MayBee said...

OMG. CNN sent out a news alert: "Oprah's Presidential Moment"

CNN!! A news alert!

Vet66 said...

Subconciously they are wearing black because of all the years they knew and understood what was going on and chose to remain quiet about it. So the wearing of black is a signal to young women and girls that they need to understand that they must take a turn on the casting couch to get a job in the business world. What a gaggle of hypocrites cheapening their gender. Pretty good at marketing though, it seems.

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n.n said...

They should have dressed as jesters to symbolize women's roles as entertainers for the court. That would remove the ambiguity of the black dress. Are they mourning at the tomb of the unknown baby? Progress. Positive progress. No, they are celebrating the ignorance of female chauvinism.

Gojuplyr831@gmail.com said...

It was so nice of the Hollywood elitists to take time out from raping each other and molesting children to let us know how we need to change our moral values.

Everyone of those phonies knew about Weinstein, or another serial rapist and abuser, and consciously remained silent to benefit their own careers. Many of them traded sex for career advancement.

Spare me the self righteous BS.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Actors and Actresses, meh. They're only dancing bears, nothing more.

Rose said...

The irony of the 50 Shades Of Grey actress there - at all - much less sanctimoniously wearing black - it's too much.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5244529/Red-carpet-75th-annual-Golden-Globe-Awards.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb#ixzz53Xt6uHqX

Remember all these women LOVED that book, and they made it into a movie - about a rich guy who could do whatever he wanted BECAUSE he was rich - exactly what Trump said that they all pretend to be SO offended about.

They made that book into a movie! It stands as a clear example of what they are supposed to now be agaist -

I can't take it anymore.

chickelit said...

The hens are running the FOX house now. Isn't that what Oprah's really about-- miaandry?

chickelit said...

Prediction: Just as women were afraid to talk about Hillary' gender gap, they will ignore talking about Oprah's gender gap. They'd rather talk about Trump's gender gap.