Amanda Marcotte has an interesting post on the debate in the feminist blogosphere over the blog, Go Fug Yourself. GFY posts pictures of celebrities wearing bad clothes and mocks them silly. Some say this mockery isn’t funny and is hurtful to women who don’t like to dress up. Other say nonsense. This sort of mockery helps to bolster the patriarchy-blaming model.
I don’t really see how mocking celebrities has any impact on women either way. Celebrities are our Greek Gods. We worship them. We mock them. They aren’t human enough to feel like the barbs aimed at them have anything to do with us mortals. The funny part isn’t that these are women wearing bad clothes. The funny is that these are rich women with a pile of handlers and advisors, and they STILL get it wrong.
I don’t feel that sorry for them either. It’s part of the bargain. They get a ton of money and beautiful bed partners, and we have the mockery. GFY does focus on women, but the tabloids spread the mockery to men as well. Look at Tom Cruise.
However, I did feel bad for Britney here. Britney almost dropped her baby and the press caught the whole thing on camera. The photographers follow her to a restaurant where they find her with smeared makeup and her thong showing. They gotta lay off that girl.
Tara Reid, on the other hand, is fair game. Girlfriend, Mork wants his jacket back.
(Of course, all this debate has killed the funny. You just can’t politicize funny. )
Apt. 11d 
Too true about the handlers, designers, and such. Which is why the real function of GFY, I think, is for proles to talk back to designers. It’s the rev-limiter on outrageous fashion: “That’s okay; that’s okay; nope, that’s way wrong — stop!”
That said, I thought the Kirsten Dunst dress was way classy, but she did need a better bra.
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