Okay, not exactly about underwear but related - Gok Wan, I like him, and I'm glad to say that I'm not the only feminist who does: Read this article by Dawn Kofie
Apart from his over use of silly terms for breasts (definitely agree with Dawn on that one!) I think he's a good egg (like 'that took eggs' a la Bitch and Animal). Mr Wan is Trinny and Susannah for people who don't like to be bullied into liking their lumps and bumps. To be honest with you, the insecure 80% of me dreams of overestimating my body size from a line up and having Gok give my silly self a big hug when I'm overwhelmed by how not-fat I really am. Fortunately the easily-embarrassed part of me will always prevent me from 'baring all' on channel 4!
The thing I like about How To Look Good Naked is that when a woman is being hoiked into posh body forming underwear, no one is saying 'you're husband is going to think you look so sexy' - and to be fair most of the partner's who are interviewed think the sexiest thing about their female loves is the confidence that they used to have in themselves. I've been there - during the utterly loved up stage you seem to think that you're Aphrodite, then suddenly you're a pale blob of bumps and blemishes. No one has said this to you, and your partner still professes to see the goddess of love, their sensually lit dream girl from a Bon Jovi video, but you're not convinced.
Watch Gok. He's lovely, he says 'fierce' and pulls it off. Imagine your own self there, without the cringeworthy gushing and intrusive video cameras. Go forth and love thyself...er...please?
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He's also a raving misogynist. :o/
Oh no :(
I had tried to find out more about him before the post but obviously didn't do a good job!
That's awful!
I also hate the latest advert for HTLGN - he spray tans a natural woman in a work of art! Needless to say he has gone down in my estimations.
Great post, I agree with your positive comments on Gok. I personally hesitate to believe the model's claims, I mean they are in the least credible paper possible, the Daily Mail. She herself sounds really credible, but I suspect she has misunderstood his sense of humour. If someone found that sort of humour offensive, that's their right, but it's a bit too much of a leap to call it abusive. From what she quoted of his apology, she seems to have misunderstood that too. The first sentence did sound like what she thought, that he was putting the onus back on her, but the next sentence clearly showed sincerity which makes me think he just worded that first part in an unfortunate way. I don't ever wish to take claims of misogyny lightly, but at the same time I don't want to unfairly damn someone with them. I just ultimately think this being in a trashy paper and not anywhere near adequately addressing whether this was humour make me lean more toward Gok's side. The love he shows for women on his show is something that can't be faked, IMO.
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