“For years, fashion-policing celebrity has been an accepted form of mainstream media critique, even though it mainly focuses on females and not men, which ultimately contributes to the perpetual minimization of women and propogates the idea that our worth is predominantly (or singularly) tied to our looks,” she wrote. “At the forefront of this right now are blogs like Go Fug Yourself, created and run by people who have anointed themselves as judge and jury of what’s fashionable.”
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In a recent post titled “If Only I Had a Dollar For Every Time I’ve Said, ‘Oh My God Olivia Munn,’” Jessica called Olivia’s striped, multicolored Peter Pilotto suit “not as terrifying” as the last time one of the actress’s looks was featured on the blog. Olivia cited this post in her essay as proof that the women are not “legitimate critics.”
She compared that criticism to what students at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland recently experienced. They fought back against a group of teenage boys who were ranking and rating girls based on their appearance.
