The Dragonfly on Privilege (and Hats)

Friday, January 27, 2012

The following is what this dragonfly is whispering in my ear.




Hats literalize the workings of privilege, Revelation #1: 


Being fashionable can be exactly like wearing blinders...



Hats literalize the workings of privilege, Revelation #2: 


...with the result that, in your cloche, the only path to self-preservation is the adoption of a sneeringly aristocratic head tilt, and a gaze that travels archly down your nose, now parallel to the floor. You think you look aloof and dashing. In fact you look myopic and contorted.



[These are corollaries to the 
Dorky Medievalist's first law of fashion, "I always wear heels when I teach hegemony."]

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