I think that one woman's armor becomes another woman's adornment, in the sense that a kind...

Self - Actress:

I think that one woman's armor becomes another woman's adornment, in the sense that a kind of Kardashian aesthetic - this hyper-feminine, plump lips, the big hair, the extensions, the silicone-injected curves of the body - in some ways might be a reflection of a change in aesthetics that comes out of the kind of gay men who are often doing the styling for celebrities. And that, for them, it comes out of the street queens that they know from the clubs. And for them, it comes out of, ultimately, the sex workers, who have to hyper-feminize their body in order to compete for clients in order to survive. And of course they're then imitating an older version of femininity that they learned that men like from movies and TV, and it kind of creates this ultimate cycle. But a lot of people will look at trans women's performance of femininity and see it as somehow reinforcing the worst patriarchal stereotypes of women, and I think it's really unfair and ahistorical to foist that same perspective on people who are just trying to survive