luminosa
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Post by luminosa on Jun 8, 2018 9:50:43 GMT -4
George Clooney received some award last night. His wife gave a speech about him. Her speech seemed lovely except for the part where she says she thought that at 35 she would be a spinster and then in walked George Clooney into her life. I hate the word spinster. I hate that someone like her, who is as successful and smart as she is, would even hint that being single is seen as negatively. I know she meant it as a joke and I'm about to get my period but this one really bugs me. As successful as I am in my career, my success in life is always measured to "when am I getting married" and to hear Amal say "spinster at 35" just really pisses me off. Yeah I’m not on my period and that annoys me. Signed, Currently a 35 year old woman with no prospective husbands in sight.
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Post by Auroranorth on Jun 8, 2018 11:31:28 GMT -4
The word spinster originally meant women who spun wool and therefore earned their own money. They were normally unwed women. So, being a spinster was actually a way to be independent and take care of yourself.
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Post by prisma on Jun 8, 2018 14:20:40 GMT -4
I wish we could reclaim that definition of spinster but I am sure that Amal meant it as a pitiable unmarried women. We who are without worth without man nor children. It really pisses me off as someone who is both unmarried and childless. Anyhoo, Tom and Lorenzo called Amal out today for being a little tacky in her fashion choices, which I think needed to be said.
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Post by Ginger on Jun 8, 2018 14:29:07 GMT -4
Yes, they are correct. She does not have a particularly good sense of style. She's got the body for fashion, and the money and inclination to buy designer clothes. But considering what's available to her- everything - her choices are not very good a lot of the time.
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greekone
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Post by greekone on Jun 8, 2018 15:49:54 GMT -4
Well the cynical side of me is thinking Amal was raised in Britain where boring flat brown shoes are flying off the shelf because a B list American actress who landed and married Prince Harry was seen in them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2018 16:40:52 GMT -4
I still can't get over that she changed her name. "Successful, prominent, feminist human rights attorney." Okay. There was a twitter thread when that happened, a few female journalists talking about "Did she really change her name?" without naming her, it was hilarious.
And his career as an actor/director is getting a bit long in the tooth. I suppose the 233 million from the tequila sale can continue to prop us his forays, but nothing he's done has really stuck since The Descendants. I'd say Gravity was a fluke, totally owned by Sandra.
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Post by petitesuite on Jun 8, 2018 16:53:57 GMT -4
Well the cynical side of me is thinking Amal was raised in Britain where boring flat brown shoes are flying off the shelf because a B list American actress who landed and married Prince Harry was seen in them. I don’t know what this means...? Are you saying that British women are disproportionately unfashionable (or susceptible to buying what they think looks good or trendy on famous women...?) and if so how is that cynical? I feel embarrassingly like I’m missing something very obvious but nonetheless I have missed it. I do completely agree with TLo’s assessment of her wardrobe. Every so often she does get it right (I really liked her royal wedding dress), but given her resources and body type it should happen a lot more often. I wonder if she has a (not very good) stylist or if she is mostly self-styled.
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greekone
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Post by greekone on Jun 8, 2018 18:14:02 GMT -4
Well the cynical side of me is thinking Amal was raised in Britain where boring flat brown shoes are flying off the shelf because a B list American actress who landed and married Prince Harry was seen in them. I don’t know what this means...? Are you saying that British women are disproportionately unfashionable (or susceptible to buying what they think looks good or trendy on famous women...?) and if so how is that cynical? I feel embarrassingly like I’m missing something very obvious but nonetheless I have missed it. I do completely agree with TLo’s assessment of her wardrobe. Every so often she does get it right (I really liked her royal wedding dress), but given her resources and body type it should happen a lot more often. I wonder if she has a (not very good) stylist or if she is mostly self-styled. What I mean is that a woman who at age 36 married the most eligible bachelor in England who no one would have thought twice about is now pretty much universally copied for any mundane style she wears by British (oh and Americans alike) women because she "married" him and "being married" is revered and is obviously the ultimate opposite of being a "spinster." In short terms, Amal was raised in a culture that being married is held in high esteem and a spinster not so much.
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Post by Ladybug on Jun 8, 2018 19:38:43 GMT -4
I have heard Amal doesn’t work with a stylist and it shows. She looks like a woman with a lot of money to spend on Net-a-porter or a Neiman’s but no idea what to actually do with it.
I don’t think Meghan dresses badly, but there is nothing inspiring or unique about how she dresses. She’s clearly got a Pinterest board full of Carolyn Besette Kennedy pictures.
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Post by ladyboy on Jun 9, 2018 7:28:31 GMT -4
Maybe Amal and Salma can have a Tacky Dress Off (without knowing their doing it, of course!). They both have issues with their sartorial choices in spite of having all the money available to them to wear anything.
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