Clothing Choices

[erinptah]

Title: Clothing Choices
Rating: PG
Characters: Jon, Olivia, Wyatt
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Olivia wants to make sure she hasn't just been hired to wear sexy outfits. Jon reassures her. Wyatt is fetching in blue.

Inspired by this interview, in which she seems so painfully fed up with the increasingly creepy pressure from her bosses to show more cleavage.

(The Kristen-as-Wonder-Woman segment is here.)




Also over here on DA.

Comments

[politicette]

FDSA FDSA OLIVIA MUNN I WANT TO LOVE YOU SO MUCH

PLEASE STOP SAYING STUPID THINGS SO I CAN LOVE YOU ;___;

[erinptah]

I AM SURE SHE WILL SAY FEWER STUPID THINGS ONCE PEOPLE QUIT ACCUSING HER OF HAVING NO TALENT OTHER THAN BEING HOT.

And, frankly, considering that she has spent so much of her career pushing back against people who want to do creepy exploitative things with her female-ness, I can totally understand why she's not thrilled about the "how do you feel about this As A Woman?" trope.

[politicette]

I CAN ONLY HOPE, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT HER STRUGGLES AGAINST SEXISM HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER DELICIOUS "I'M NOT RACIST I HAVE BLACK BOYFRIENDS" AND "I TOLD JON STEWART A HOLOCAUST JOKE, HOW *~*EDGY" COMMENTS.

OR PERPETUATING SEXIST TROPES BY CALLING HER CRITICS FAT BITCHES GDI OLIVIA WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

[erinptah]

Er, I got the impression that the "I can be racist because I've had black boyfriends" thing was a joke. Just like the "I had to make out with Samantha Bee to get this job" thing, or the "so, did the Holocaust really happen?" thing. (Which I haven't seen her describe as "look at me I'm so edgy!!", just "so, this is the joke I made, and this is what came of it.")

There are certain circles (say, LJ media fandom) where some words and phrases have become really charged, to the point where anybody saying them in any context sends people straight into the bingo-card script. We're not getting a single limited discussion with her; we're getting a bunch of scattershot interviews on all kinds of topics, and you can't expect that to confine itself to the points you want to hear about. Moreover, there's a difference between "a black acquaintance of yours pulls you aside and says 'hey, I know you meant well, but this joke you made really bothers me'" and "some random interviewer, in the context of an interview that's supposed to promote you as a comedian, asks about race." Joking in one case doesn't prove she wouldn't or couldn't be serious in the other.

...and besides, she's alluded a couple of times to experiencing pretty serious racist harm herself. As a POC, shouldn't it be her prerogative not to get into serious public discussions of the topic if that's not something she feels like dealing with?

Critics lashed out at her in sexist ways, so she lashed back. I'm still not thrilled about it, but as long as she doesn't make a habit of saying icky sexist things to people who didn't go after her first, I'm not going to define her by it.