30 Day Awesome Women Meme, Day 9

[featherxquill]

So, new meme entry, finally. ToM kind of ate my life. I did nothing productive for a number of days, just read and read and read.


1. Someone you've loved since you were little
2. Someone you discovered recently
3. A leader
4. A mother
5. A fighter
6. A goddess
7. Someone funny
8. Someone bitchy

9. Someone sexy



~ Dita Von Teese ~

So there are a lot of women I think are sexy, but 'sexy' for an individual is quite subjective, isn't it? So for this prompt I wanted to pick a woman who, while she doesn't necessarily conform to modern ideals of beauty, definitely embodies a timeless sort of sexiness, and sells it as her image. I wanted to pick a woman who is not devalued by being sexually objectified, but who owns and has control over her sexuality and the depiction of it.

So, Dita Von Teese. Fetish/glamour model and Burlesque performer (and what performance emphasises 'sexy' over 'sexual' better than Burlesque?). Costume designer, tight-lacer, businesswoman. Dita's sexy image is what she sells, and she combines it with what she loves - vintage costume and old world glamour. She is, to my mind, a gorgeous example of someone who is empowered by being looked at, rather than becoming an object of male gaze.












10. A writer
11. A singer
12. An artist
13. An actress
14. An athlete
15. Anyone you like
16. A woman of colour
17. A woman with a disability
18. A lesbian, bisexual, transgenderd or genderqueer woman/individual
19. Someone you'd love to have teach you
20. Someone you'd love to get drunk with
21. Someone you wouldn't want to cross
22. Someone you'd love to be for a day
23. A woman from traditionally male arena (politics, science, medicine, military, etc)
24. A woman over 50
25. An activist
26. A woman from the past
27. A woman of the future
28. Someone you once disliked but now admire
29. Someone from your own life
30. Anyone you like

Comments

[eldivinomarques.livejournal.com]

*whistles* My, my! The 3rd photo... She is the sexiest woman ever. I wish that more models would have that gorgeous retro look instead looking too thin and almost ill.

Ditta has class, style and a gorgeous body.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm...

|Stares.|

She makes my morning headache run off faster...

[acoustics1220.livejournal.com]

Wow. She's so very fair. Yay RETRO! :)