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Words by Chloe Laws<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2153372017-copy.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”GettyImages-2153372017-copy” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”107px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n \u2018Put it away.\u2019 \u2018What\u2019s happened to the world?!\u2019 \u2018Dangerous!!\u2019 You\u2019d think these would be remarks made at, I don\u2019t know, someone brandishing a machete in public or a person flashing their genitals on public transport. You\u2019d be mistaken. These comments were made over Bella Hadid wearing a sheer dress! And these were some of the more palatable comments out there.<\/p>\n Hadid attended the premiere of The Apprentice at Cannes Film Festival this week in a latte-brown mesh dress by Saint Laurent. The dress was sheer around the bust, and her boobs were visible \u2013 not \u2018on display\u2019 or being \u2018flaunted\u2019 as the tabloids would say \u2013 simply, there. She looked amazing, but that\u2019s beside the point. People were not happy about *checks notes* her having a body and it being visible.<\/p>\n Sadly, this backlash comes as no surprise. Women cannot exist without being criticised, sexualised, demonised or chastised. Especially when in public, especially when high-profile, especially when seemingly confident. It does not matter what you look like, you will be dubbed too much or too little. Too revealing, too modest, too pious, too slutty, too fat, too thin, too beautiful, too ugly, too feminine, too masculine. Whoever the woman, whatever the outfit, there will be criticism. Even Bella Hadid, an embodiment of most Western beauty standards and a literal supermodel.<\/p>\n It happens constantly. CMAT, an Irish singer, attended the Brit Awards in March this year wearing a fun Sophie Lincoln dress that had a low back and showed her bum crack. She looked amazing, but that\u2019s once again, beside the point. She was body shamed, slut shamed, everything-shamed. Appearing on Radio 4\u2019s Woman\u2019s Hour, CMAT spoke about the ordeal, saying: \u2018I only think that my derri\u00e8re caused a ruckus because it is larger. There were a lot of bits of crack shown in the early 2000s and stuff, but it didn\u2019t necessarily cause a stir. I think mine did because I\u2019m a size 14 as opposed to a size six, which I suppose is commonly what we do see on television.\u2019<\/p>\n We all remember when Rose McGowan attended the 1998 VMA in a sheer chain-mail dress, right? It was an iconic fashion moment, and she looked amazing, but that\u2019s once more, beside the point. In 2020, she spoke about the public shaming she received. \u2018They slut-shamed me like crazy. It was kind of hard. I hadn\u2019t really ever dealt with global media shaming. But it prepared me for later on it happening to me a whole bunch. It was also like, \u2018Sorry you\u2019re square and I\u2019m not. Bummer.\u2019<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|||0px||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n McGowan\u2019s dress was worn for meta reasons, a reclamation of sorts. She said, \u2018It was my first big public appearance after being sexually assaulted. I just felt like, \u201cOh Hollywood, would you want a body just that you can use and throw away? Then I\u2019ve got one for you!\u201d It was like at the end of \u2018Gladiator\u2019 when he comes out and he\u2019s like, \u2018\u201dAre you not entertained?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n McGowan understood the hypocrisy and the patriarchal trap: people are comfortable when women\u2019s bodies are \u2018on display\u2019 if they are not the person choosing to do the displaying. Our nudity is fine, if it\u2019s not autonomous. Sheer dresses are great, if it\u2019s a male director is in the chair dictating it so. Then, it\u2019s art. Sheer dresses are fine in porn, in non-consensual AI deepfakes of celebrities, in anime – so long as men feel some sort of power. We are constantly sexualised and then demonised for being sexual, told to be sexy and \u2018look\u2019 a certain way, but scolded when doing so.<\/p>\n Last summer, in July 2023, Keke Palmer was shamed publicly by her child\u2019s father Darius Jackson \u2013 and half the internet \u2013 for wearing a sheer dress whilst attending an Usher concert. \u2018It\u2019s the outfit tho [sic]\u2026 you a mom,\u2019 Jackson tweeted. In one short statement she was sexualised and desexualised; the sheerness of her outfit dubbed inappropriate because she is a mother, and therefore not allowed to be sexy. Palmer was reduced to a one-dimensional being, and whilst she got a lot of support, many agreed with Jackson\u2019s misogyny.<\/p>\n There are so many expectations of how women should look and dress, and they are incredibly limiting and contradictory. It\u2019s a lose-lose. Women who choose to dress modesty are often told they are being oppressed and controlled. Women who do not dress modestly are told they are whores and looking for male attention. These judgements roll in by the bucket load, and we are so immune to this level of misogyny and shaming that it often does not feel \u2018worth it\u2019 to call out. We rarely tap the sign and say the quiet bit out loud which is: misogyny is the problem here, not how women dress.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”9px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Photo:<\/b>Ashlee Huff<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whoever the woman, whatever the outfit, there will be criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"kschwarz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘We are so immune to this level of misogyny and shaming that it often does not feel \u2018worth it\u2019 to call out.’<\/h2>\n