Mike B, I think ‘she’ meant slopping as in ‘slopping around’ or ‘dressing in sloppy clothes with no makeup’. Of course, that’s also demonstrably untrue, and to pretend that’s sloppy is an insult to busy, poor, and busy poor women everywhere who would dream of having nice clothes and the ability to hang out at the hairdresser. But then what do I know, I’m just a man. Unless I’m not…
John, he’s probably had real women in his general orbit before, maybe even in his life. I doubt he knows them though. He absorbed an impression of what they are and assumes that is actual knowledge and understanding. He likes the safe, public, image of being an upper middle class woman.
It’s amazing to me that his self portraits bear so very little resemblance to the real thing. Watch him in live, in-person, TV interviews; without filters for his appearance and behaviour, it’s obvious that he’s a misogynistic, bullying, man.
busy, poor, and busy poor women everywhere who would dream of having nice clothes and the ability to hang out at the hairdresser.
Though I suspect it is more aimed at women like me, busy middle-class women who don’t wear makeup and go to the hairdresser by choice. I doubt he gives one thought to women who are poor, or poor and busy. He is attempting to be middle-class woman, and is trying to point out that he is doing a better job of it than the rest of us who are just being middle-class women because that’s who we are.
Most of the busy poor women I know actually do wear make up. They don’t go to the hairdressers, because that is truly expensive, but you can get cheap make up at nearly any dollar store, and probably at places like WalMart. The clothes can also be gotten cheap if you know the location of the nearest thrift store; some of them have very nice clothes, donated by middle-class women who don’t need them anymore, or outgrew them.
So, yeah, I suspect he’s directing it at women who choose not to be “truly women” because they don’t think they need make up and hairdressers (not to mention, has anyone ever smelled a hairdressers? I used to go with my grandmother – she wasn’t willing to go gray – and yuck. Not a good place for someone with asthma).
I’ve never had that sort of experience on the few occasions where I went to a hairdresser. There was one…in a school setting…who trimmed my hair and remembered me, but most of them were cold and unfriendly.
Maybe that’s a midwestern thing…the only hairdressers I’ve gone to have been in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
@Iknlast – I go to a cheap hairdresser’s in an area of Edinburgh which I would describe as “a bit rough”. Scottish working class women are usually friendly and chatty.
Scottish working class women are usually friendly and chatty.
American working class women (and middle-class) are a mixed lot. Some are friendly and chatty, and others aren’t. And I tend a bit toward prickliness, which people might spot if they’re astute enough, and not try to start a conversation with me, though I have no such problem in the grocery store.
I think it’s the smell. It makes me want to get done and get out of there. I haven’t been in years.
Head tilt! (and creepy smirk)
“Slopping”?? Should it be “stopping”?
Or does “”she”” mean
?
Wow, he looks like a Cabbage Patch doll… Barbie is more realistic…
Mike B, I think ‘she’ meant slopping as in ‘slopping around’ or ‘dressing in sloppy clothes with no makeup’. Of course, that’s also demonstrably untrue, and to pretend that’s sloppy is an insult to busy, poor, and busy poor women everywhere who would dream of having nice clothes and the ability to hang out at the hairdresser. But then what do I know, I’m just a man. Unless I’m not…
What a vacuous existence.
Does he know any real women?
John, he’s probably had real women in his general orbit before, maybe even in his life. I doubt he knows them though. He absorbed an impression of what they are and assumes that is actual knowledge and understanding. He likes the safe, public, image of being an upper middle class woman.
It’s amazing to me that his self portraits bear so very little resemblance to the real thing. Watch him in live, in-person, TV interviews; without filters for his appearance and behaviour, it’s obvious that he’s a misogynistic, bullying, man.
Here he is on Good Morning Britain, broadcast live on the fifth of February, 2019.
And here he is again, on the sixteenth of January, 2023.
Has he had further plastic surgery? He’s looking really odd (and nothing like that photo at the hairdressers, which is even odder).
@5: Yup!!!
Though I suspect it is more aimed at women like me, busy middle-class women who don’t wear makeup and go to the hairdresser by choice. I doubt he gives one thought to women who are poor, or poor and busy. He is attempting to be middle-class woman, and is trying to point out that he is doing a better job of it than the rest of us who are just being middle-class women because that’s who we are.
Most of the busy poor women I know actually do wear make up. They don’t go to the hairdressers, because that is truly expensive, but you can get cheap make up at nearly any dollar store, and probably at places like WalMart. The clothes can also be gotten cheap if you know the location of the nearest thrift store; some of them have very nice clothes, donated by middle-class women who don’t need them anymore, or outgrew them.
So, yeah, I suspect he’s directing it at women who choose not to be “truly women” because they don’t think they need make up and hairdressers (not to mention, has anyone ever smelled a hairdressers? I used to go with my grandmother – she wasn’t willing to go gray – and yuck. Not a good place for someone with asthma).
The hairdressers is a utilitarian space for most women, who are busy.
Some advice from the hairdresser, a bit of chit chat, maybe a cup of tea (I refuse it but it’s offered), then job done.
I’ve never had that sort of experience on the few occasions where I went to a hairdresser. There was one…in a school setting…who trimmed my hair and remembered me, but most of them were cold and unfriendly.
Maybe that’s a midwestern thing…the only hairdressers I’ve gone to have been in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
@Iknlast – I go to a cheap hairdresser’s in an area of Edinburgh which I would describe as “a bit rough”. Scottish working class women are usually friendly and chatty.
American working class women (and middle-class) are a mixed lot. Some are friendly and chatty, and others aren’t. And I tend a bit toward prickliness, which people might spot if they’re astute enough, and not try to start a conversation with me, though I have no such problem in the grocery store.
I think it’s the smell. It makes me want to get done and get out of there. I haven’t been in years.