[lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 7:05 PM -0700 7/14/03, Miles Jackson wrote:
>  > I really don't see anything wrong with it either. Within reason, attempting
>>  to look a little better is respectful and courteous to our loved ones, and
>>  to the world at large. And in the ugly landscape that is much of America,
>  > often the only way to maintain some aesthetic standard in one's daily life.
>  > Liza
>
>This assumes that the standards of "better" are benign, natural 
>products of good sense.  On the contrary: the beauty standards are a 
>product of a complex array of socioeconomic and political forces.

Beauty is one thing; style is entirely another.  One doesn't have to 
be beautiful to be stylish, and the point of queering is to learn to 
develop style, rather than to conform to the existing standards of 
beauty.

Take Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Jimmy Somerville, etc. 
None of them is beautiful by conventional standards, but they all got 
style.
-- 
Yoshie

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