MEMORANDUM
To: Huffington Post, Jamie Feldman (Associate Style Editor)
re: Stylish sexism
In the first place: Why do I care?
The Huffington Post sidebar is, of course, notorious; I can discover all manner of fascinating insights about how you think of your readers, because, you know, some of us just so want to know about Martha Stewart’s sex life, or what slits were too high for comfort. Something about cherries, and something about sex toys; yeah, that was the sort of moment I would never experience without the Huffington Post.
It is not so much a question of why I care about the notoriously obnoxious lack of decent character shown by the HuffPo sidebar; it is, after all, merely software.
But the question persists why I care what Kate Middleton wore yesterday. Nor was this merely in the sidebar; someone chose to put the article about the Duchess of Cambridge being an “outfit repeater” on the front page of the Huffington Post.
Royals: They’re just like us―when it comes to recycling outfits, that is.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge took her new haircut out to a holiday party at the London’s Anna Freud center Monday, a charity she has visited before as part of her ongoing work for children’s mental health.
Dressed for the holidays, Kate opted for an all-red Alexander McQueen outfit that she has worn not once but twice before
Perhaps Jamie Feldman, associate style editor for HuffPo, might explain if this is one of those moments in which I am suppsoed to squee! uncontrollably.
Maybe weep?
Fall to my knees in prayer? How about just shake my head sadly?
“Outfit Repeater”? Really? Yeah, okay, I can shake my head sadly at that.
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