#so tired of this particular blogger being like i'm just being nuanced while presenting some of the worst takes i've seen
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the argument from corset defenders that they're just trying to say corsets "weren't universal torture devices" and/or "people didn't typically tightlace" is rendered automatically null by the fact that this is fundamentally a straw man argument - one that is made more so because they're purposefully ignoring valid critiques of corsetry - ones that actually take historical context into consideration (i.e. the role of the patriarchy, white women's bodies as tools of colonialism, fashion interlinked with industrialization and capitalism, real women's testimonies and feelings towards it, dress reform and medical history) when discussing clothing and fashion history - to repeat this rhetoric.
most critiques I've seen have encompassed discussions of gender, labour, and colonial history. It's a shame that people keep insisting on seeing the corset as (at best) a neutral item and devoid of social/racial/gendered context, and rather than as something that directly interacts with those topics, and therefore cannot be simply rendered as neutral item of clothing.
#it's also rendered automatically null by saying 'actual clothing historians'#which is mostly a self-moniker title... but that's a conversation people on here can't handle#bad history takes#name an actual historian for $100 - not a costuber or a person with a degree in art history ffs#so tired of this particular blogger being like i'm just being nuanced while presenting some of the worst takes i've seen#or that are 1/5 sort of correct and the rest absolutely does not make sense if you have any understanding of history or historical research#i remember them saying during the bridgeton corset scandal 'wow why don't these people critiquing corsets care about actresses wearing span#even though the critiques including shapewear because most people understand diet culture/shapewear as the transformation of the corset#to the foucauldian “mindful” body in which we self-regulate to create the 'ideal' body through dieting and cosmetic surgery etc.#absolutely braindead take as always#bullshit ideologies#sorry i'm in a bitchy mood today but i'm sick and tired of seeing this take and pretending it's novel or saying anything interesting#i'm so tired hearing about corsets - women undoubtedly in the 19th century and me in the 21st century
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