The Un-Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Seemed To Go Well (VIDEO)

In they’re never ending attempt to suck up to their lethargic female audience, Buzzfeed staged a lingerie fashion show for women who wouldn’t otherwise ever meet the shallow, artificial, and inhuman standards of Victoria’s Secret. Put the word “empowerment” in your HuffPo or Buzzfeed or Glamour pitch and it’s like going into a porn production meeting with the concept of Swedish blond twins and double anal. Greenlight!

It’s somewhat illogical if not unfortunate that women are combatting unrealistic beauty standards by stripping down to their underwear to revel in their disdain of health and fitness basics. You feel bad for the short kid who spent hour after hour working on his basketball game to simply be denied advancement due to genetics. Less so for the kid with the Cheetos and the well-worn NBA 2K17 controller bitching about he could’ve been a baller. 

Various levels of large, short, tranny, and non-model featured women made their way down the runway as an audience packed with women and sympathetic gay men on the payroll hooted and hollered. The women claimed to feel more confident and sexy than ever. That seems to be the goal. Even Barbie is pushing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) for girls. Unlikely as that is to shift gender paradigms, Mattel at least understands that Lingerie Modeling is not in the top four ways to pretend you’re for empowering girls.

None of these media and online outlets could give a shit about gender equality. We’re all in the business of selling Kim Kardashian’s tits. Taking educationally disadvantaged girls into vocational science programs won’t get you millions of clicks like a fashion show featuring Tess Holliday hyperventilating to make the return thirty feet of the catwalk. This is embarrassing. Everybody involved should feel entirely ashamed. I came twice.

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