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"girly" and the long struggle of women

yesterday held an event you may have missed: the day pink'n shoes. Launched by the blogger Thorn, it was for different designers es nurse bloggers / pig make a note of "girly" (there is a list of participants with link at the end of the note Thorn). But what a note "girly"? Look at it sociologically.

The term "girly" has come to mean in the little world of comics blogs, a special category: they are blogging identified as "feminine" and that focus around certain characteristics identified themselves as "feminine". There will necessarily be subject of shoes, clothes, balances, guys, cats, etc.. All with a bit of frivolity and stupidity. In any case, what emerges is the clearest possible terms the various drawings during this "special day".

So, girly, this is not really a compliment. It can even be rather heavy to carry. The blogger can evoke Kek that he reads this kind of blog for fun . Similarly, the designer can Boulet mock without much hesitation type blog. In the posts of the day, JiBe clearly expresses the feelings of hatred that can arise this style. In short, the "girly" is a stigma in Goffman's sense: a feature that allows you to mark the discredit which we seek at all costs to stand out. After Skyblogs is probably the genus that causes most certainly that kind of rejection by the critical scorn.

But where do the blogs girlies? The question is interesting. The term was imposed when the site blogbd.fr actually one of its categories of classification, since disappeared: it is probably at this point that the "style" was formalized and took in the spirit if not in practice, its final form. Generally, one can see two great "ancestors" (even if they are not so old as that): Penelope Bagieu and his blog " My life is quite fascinating " (signed first Penelope Jolicoeur) and Margaux Motin , an illustrator who has since published two collections of his notes. They are mentioned here as the "two queens of the genre" by a designer who just want to play on codes of it. Similarly, in this post Boulet, they are referred to as "starlets" of the blogosphere. This echoes a stigma typically female, attached to the early practice of the blog: the frivolity and the desire "to show" that one usually pays for starlets.

Yet these two blogs do they meet the hyper-feminine aspect which now returns the phrase "girly" - as it is to be seen in the parodies available at this pink'n day shoes? Not really. Certainly one will find stories about clothes and guys, of course Penelope Bagieu could talk about her cat, of course, they can raise issues quite feminine ... But not only. Instead, one as the other may also emphasize the distance some time they have with the feminine role that is theirs: Margaux Motin uses language not always very delicate ("then one is not quite the relaxed penis there?" or "did you see ? I managed to put 17 times the word dick "). Penelope Bagieu also stressed his coarse side, and can stage how it goes from one role to another . In short, the blog "girly" history was built on a remote traditional female role.

More specifically, these two blogs are very modern in their way. Certainly, the two young women start times on stage as "women" in search of the perfect shoe or attached to the music tearful when we suffer ... But they also refuse to be just that. They want well-being of women, and treated as such, but not all the time, not everyone, not matter how. It claims that Margaux Motin very clearly in his latest book theory contortion. It opens with a scene where she says she refuses to be enclosed in a box - and is contradicted by drawing each role we want him paste, "fiiiiiiiiille" to "fashinista godasses to acco", to "mother", "soldier" or "trendy Parisian." The next page shows the out of the box in which you want to lock him in the form of a multitude of themselves with clothes and attitudes related to everything she wants to be when she wants ( this design is now used to blindfold her website).

short put these blogs - and still are - the scene of women who play their role of women as "tongue in cheek" as saying the Anglo-Saxon with distance and humor, knowing that it is a role without too attached and even ostensibly showing that there is not fooled. Watermark with a claim: to be treated like a woman, yes, but in intimate relationships, also in industrial relations, we will not necessarily be considered as such. A beautiful and strong awareness of the nature of the genre in other words, even if this does not exclude the possibility of continuing to criticize the stereotypes so used.

Instead, girly adjective has come to refer pejoratively blogs that depict women who have no distance to their role, who believe in "killing". What happened? How the term is already very respectful insofar infantilizes women ("girls" rather than "women "...), he might have become a trend? It is actually probably come into resonance with the sharp devaluation of everything that is labeled as feminine in our society ... Like any stigma, it has tended to come together to define the personality of the man or woman who wears it: we have learned from these blogs that the aspects that could be devalued, mainly frivolity. And it has eliminated, in representation, all they could have a modern and protest. A blog "girly" is girly / feminine before anything and everything that can be said or done will be interpreted according to the label.

What testify in this final category of blogs "girly"? Essentially that women's struggle is far from over. A man to do a blog where he talks about things "masculine" and no one criticized him: Mr. Dog, by taking to the extreme (and that's why we love it) all the male stereotypes (sex-obsessed, passionate football, games and role of comics, a little loser, etc..) is a simple blog, not a blog "boyish" or "manly." Instead, his humor and his way of playing with role is well understood. A woman makes a blog and it will have to fight against the stigma that it essaira affix Laurel as the blogger who was forced to protest from blogbd.fr because she thought her work could be labeled "girly" merely because she is a woman (she also plays with his roles as a mother for example) ... When try to play with his role as women, we will see this as a difficult game, and the risk will be stronger than she is taken at face value. In short, it will still take time to be a woman ceases to be a stigma.

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