.emrata explains that although she loves feeling feminine and sexy, femininity is something she's had to reclaim from sexist connotations.
to explore her relationship to femininity, alongside a luxurious shoot flaunting her armpit hair.
She continues:"So why did I take offense at my friend's remark? What was negative about being called 'femme'? I realized then that my feeling was in part because of those countless experiences—experiences in which men and women had told me that if I dressed a certain way I wouldn't be taken seriously and could even be put in danger. A middle school teacher's comment, 'You can't expect anyone to respect you,' echoed through my head.
The essay condemns our culture's inability to take women who embrace femininity seriously. She points to how the media coverage of Ratajkowski's recent arrest while protesting the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court focused on what she was wearing rather than what she was saying."Why, as a culture, do we insist on separating smart and serious from sexy?" she writes.
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