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August 06, 2005
Dressing up no longer acceptable ...
If little Jack Roberts Jr. had been bopping around in a Spongebob T-shirt, he would have been the darling of the press. “In a White House Obsessed With Appearances, a Note of Abandon.” And you suspect that Washington commentators would have noted how Spongebob’s sexual ambiguity stands in ironic contrast to the administration’s support of a controversial amendment, and how various state cases on gay marriage may confront the Supreme Court in years to come, etcetera, etcetera.You can’t blame the Roberts family for wishing to dress up nicely. But the Roberts went too far. Do you understand? They went too far. If that child’s nice old-money anti-hoi-polloi skirt didn’t sound your klaxons, you’re just not paying attention. People who dress like Mormons are creepy. Creepy as real Mormons. Women who do not feel a surge of resentment when they put on hosiery are traitors to the gender; men who carefully knot their ties are repressing something, probably sexual; parents who put their kids in nice dress-up clothes that are 21% more formal than a newspaper reporter would have worn on Friday are rejecting modernity and the lower four quintiles. You. Have. Been. Warned.
Sexual orientation and obsession over other people’s tighter standards of public decorum: file under Obsessions I Do Not Understand, but enjoy watching displayed, for all to see.
Like a bad tattoo you got when you were 22, and knew it all.
"English vogue, american vogue, french vogue, bloody aba-bloody-synnian-bloody vogue, darling," Screedblog, by James Lileks, July 25, 2005
Posted at August 6, 2005 01:33 PM | Categories: Bigotry
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