Letters to the Editor
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Give me a break, I think
if jeffries were female and the letters to the editor featured the same proportion of messages with disparaging comments about the individual's looks, we'd be hearing from the broadsheet crowd about how wrong and oppressive the letter writers are, how they're victimizing women, and holding women to unreasonable standards of beauty, etc.
I'm not sure whether you're saying that we letter writers are wrong to focus on his looks, or whether you're disparaging the broadsheet crowd's anticipated reaction to said letters. Regardless, just to prove my own non-sexist agenda here, the first name that popped into my head upon seeing Mr. Jeffries was Joycelyn Wildenstein, another self-made freak. It's not about unreasonable standards of beauty, it's about narcissism run amok, a phenomenon that is not gender-specific.
Perhaps the focus on his looks to the exclusion of the content of the article is reflective of the typical Salon reader's attitude towards fashion journalism, that being, who cares?