Urge to (in for the) kill.... rising

[katstevens]

Oh dear, La Roux gets feminism wrong AGAIN

First it was 'girls look a bit stupid playing guitars', now this:

What's your stance on the way that female musicians either choose to or are forced to use a sexuality that's essentially just designed to appeal to men?

"It's really patronising to women. I know that there's far more ways to be sexy than to dress in a miniskirt and a tank top. If you're a real woman you can turn someone on in a plastic bag just by looking at them. That's what a real woman is, when you've got the sex eyes. I think you attract a certain kind of man by dressing like that. Women wonder why they get beaten up, or having relationships with arsehole men. Because you attracted one, you tw4t. It's a funny culture, it's definitely a funny culture. Those women are just insecure, but they'll turn round to me and say 'you're just jealous 'cos you want a tan and you want big boobs, stupid boy-looking girl'. You can't win, they wouldn't believe me for a second."

Jebus, is she *actually* saying that by dressing in a certain way, women are inviting men to abuse them? I think she is. Sigh.

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[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

if she genuinely is this thick

I'm kind of leaning towards that interpretation, myself.

While I do actually quite like bits of her stuff, I must be honest (the remixes, yes!), I really don't get the idea of her as being a "serious" artist or saying anything "meaningful". I find the idea of her being sold as such....weird, tbh. If she thinks she's smart, it's possibly a delusion common to a lot of reasonably privileged girls with a performance background - I've known a few.

For some reason, she's now become a sort of 21st century Louise Wener in my head (cos I can definitely see the similarities, IYKWIM). Daft views on feminism, overly strong investment in own cleverness, fairly fluffy pop songs which weren't quite as good as they should have been, yet still sold as Proper Music, Not Manufactured Rubbish.

I expect to see a series of lite novels by Elly within 5 years! Something like this, maybe. Or, more likely (and less fortunately), something like...this.

*shudders*