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“When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.”
Okay, this whole conversation is frustrating. I’m more obsessed with Janelle Monae than almost anyone I personally know, I’ve been a fan of hers for years and years. And she 100% deserves credit for wearing suits ever since the beginning of her musical career. Janelle Monae is badass. I love her, I love her suits. Big Janelle Monae crush, here.
But you know who else has been wearing suits throughout her career? Evan Rachel Wood. I’ve admired many of her suits over the years. Evan’s suit at the Golden Globes was drool-worthy for me. And it just adds to a long line of badass women who often wear suits. Evan never framed wearing this suit as though she was the first woman to do it or as though it was the first time she had done it. Some of these entertainment news sites wrote about it as though this were some new thing, which is of course totally nonsense, many many women have rocked suits throughout history for a variety of reasons.
You can call out the media for going wild when a conventionally attractive white woman does it, absolutely. And I think there is a real argument to be made there. (Obviously the person who wrote “Name someone more iconic” is shamefully out of the loop here). But there is still power in any woman that choses to go against the gendered expectations for her.
Evan Rachel Wood is bisexual, and she has been an outspoken advocate for queer people. Her closing to wear a suit is in many ways an open manifestation of her queer identity. As a bisexual woman myself, I appreciate her bravery in choosing to express herself in that way. I also appreciate Janelle Monae’s consistent outspokenness and bravery. Same for all the other women who resist conventional gender expectations.
Besides, if you go to twitter, you can see Janelle Monae and Evan Rachel Wood (as well as other often suited women) all praising each other for their badass suit wearing and just being generally awesome. Women who have each other’s backs. This isn’t a competition.
And besides, if we want to play a game of ‘who wore it first’….
(Probably not Katherine Hepburn. I just wanted an excuse to post this damned fine picture, and point out that women have been wearing suits for a Really Long Time.)
(also reblogging for @dustintheink’s fabulous commentary.
dustintheink:
misstransatlantic:
“When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.”
Okay, this whole conversation is frustrating. I’m more obsessed with Janelle Monae than almost anyone I personally know, I’ve been a fan of hers for years and years. And she 100% deserves credit for wearing suits ever since the beginning of her musical career. Janelle Monae is badass. I love her, I love her suits. Big Janelle Monae crush, here.
But you know who else has been wearing suits throughout her career? Evan Rachel Wood. I’ve admired many of her suits over the years. Evan’s suit at the Golden Globes was drool-worthy for me. And it just adds to a long line of badass women who often wear suits. Evan never framed wearing this suit as though she was the first woman to do it or as though it was the first time she had done it. Some of these entertainment news sites wrote about it as though this were some new thing, which is of course totally nonsense, many many women have rocked suits throughout history for a variety of reasons.
You can call out the media for going wild when a conventionally attractive white woman does it, absolutely. And I think there is a real argument to be made there. (Obviously the person who wrote “Name someone more iconic” is shamefully out of the loop here). But there is still power in any woman that choses to go against the gendered expectations for her.
Evan Rachel Wood is bisexual, and she has been an outspoken advocate for queer people. Her closing to wear a suit is in many ways an open manifestation of her queer identity. As a bisexual woman myself, I appreciate her bravery in choosing to express herself in that way. I also appreciate Janelle Monae’s consistent outspokenness and bravery. Same for all the other women who resist conventional gender expectations.
Besides, if you go to twitter, you can see Janelle Monae and Evan Rachel Wood (as well as other often suited women) all praising each other for their badass suit wearing and just being generally awesome. Women who have each other’s backs. This isn’t a competition.
And besides, if we want to play a game of ‘who wore it first’….
(Probably not Katherine Hepburn. I just wanted an excuse to post this damned fine picture, and point out that women have been wearing suits for a Really Long Time.)
(also reblogging for @dustintheink’s fabulous commentary.
