If Rachel Maddow misses this one, she'll never forgive herself. This demands some cheery, snarky irony. I'm starting to think that having stopped drinking 19 years ago was a terrible mistake...
Back in the day, I used to joke that the Army hired designers who were gay and hated women in order to design their uniforms. They were awful -- not flattering, unattractive, inefficient and ineffective at doing what they were supposed to do. There is a nice irony in that the original women's fatigues had a cute little pocket on the sleeve for pens and pencils and tampax or whatever -- tootsie rolls, tampax, pocket vibrators --where now the Army Combat Uniform has the same thing.
However, I think that men's fashion has been taken over by Lesbians-Who-Hate-Men. The people who were running it before may have been gay, but they liked men. Or, perhaps it's an alliance between LWHM and Androgonous Guys on Bad Drugs...or possibly Good Drugs. However, I don't expect to see anyone that I'd care to have a cup of coffee with, listen to, or consider as a functional human being dressed like one of Britney's dancers on crack with better abs striding along the catwalk. Or street. seriously, if Mick or Steven ever showed up for a gig dressed like this, the Stones or Aerosmith would turn into the Village People. (Or, Keith and Joe would just shoot them. Blam. On Stage...and get off because they're rich, and because they eliminated a public nuisance.) Even in the Crossroads of Opportunity; this would be outre even for Vegas.
I understand fashion statements. I just don't see the pont of "Hey Ever'bodee...I'm a dickless twit!" as one.
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