Like many people, I had a scroll through the Daily Mail website during yesterday's lunch hour in order to see what people were wearing to this year's Ladies' Day at Aintree. I won't post a link to the article as it's pretty predictable, ending with readers (anonymously) insulting people's chosen attire. Luckily, I also came across this article by Stephanie Heneghan which sums up my feelings on the matter perfectly.
A day later, however, and I just can't shake off my feelings of anger. Since when was publishing deliberately bad photos of women (as one commenter observed) in order to spark a string of hurtful insults a valid career choice? And as for the comments themselves, I appreciate we're all entitled to an opinion but where do we draw the line? You wouldn't shout at a woman in the street because you didn't like her fake tan (well not if you're a decent human being) so why does the Daily Mail make it okay for us to do so online?
Women really cannot win. If we don't make an effort we're seen as lazy and committing a crime against femininity however if we dare to show a bit of personality through our style then, as Stephanie points out, we're publicly ridiculed. But there's a happy medium you say? I'm sure there is however when society continuously changes its idea of what's desirable in a woman, this 'happy medium' gets increasingly difficult to achieve.
Considering beauty is so very subjective, how about people just shut the hell up and stop criticizing the ladies of Liverpool for being too damn fabulous.
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