Somebody really needs to start sponsoring pro-domme sessions for editors of gossip and celebrity web sites. I’m not sure they really understand the concept of domination or femdom, but perhaps it’d be possible to beat it into them.
The latest idiocy I’ve seen in this vein was triggered by this Interview Magazine photo spread with Kylie Jenner (photographed by Steven Klein). In it she appears to be pretending to be some sort of mannequin or blank posed doll. They are admittedly fetish shots, but she captures no element of a dominatrix in any of them. Carrying a serving tray with a glass of wine and wearing ass-less pants is not a very domme thing to do. Yet every damn gossip/fashion/news site (for example here, here and here) describes her as going for a full on dominatrix look. Most of them even lead with the picture of her being picked up and carried by a man, right under the word dominatrix.
To be fair the original article doesn’t use that expression. It’s just every idiot who links to it does. Somebody needs to inform these people that a domme is about power, control and domination. Not slipping on a tight latex outfit and doing what you’re told.
For my featured image I’ve picked the one shot that almost works as a femdom shot, if you don’t see it in the context of the other images in the shoot.
The written drivel around those pictures makes the mind boggle … again.
But I very much doubt that crowd funding and sponsoring a couple of pro-domme sessions for those editor guys will cure ‘m of their moronic misconceptions.
I suspect they just don’t want to learn anything new and just don’t want to know any better.
And then, maybe they’re just following orders from their financial overlords: Keep ‘m dumb, keep ‘m confused and keep ‘m in the dark as long as they amuse ‘mselves. Who knows.
No. I doubt it’d help much either. I suspect they know that certain key phrases or words generate clicks and ‘dominatrix’ is one of them. So they spam it across the headlines at the slightest hint of a fetishistic outfit.
Originally I was going to be critical of the photographer. But after looking more closely, I think he knew exactly what he was doing and achieved the look he was after. It’s the interview around the images and all the linked articles that are horribly stupid.
-paltego
The artist sure got what he was after. The pictures are very cleverly made and fotoshopped, in my (amateur photographers) opinion.
At first glace I thought he used one of those “real” silicon dolls and I immediately had to think of the sculptures of Allen Jones as well.
Only after I started reading I realised the model is a woman of flesh and blood. And no regular consumer of celebrity culture, I didn’t recognise her as another young Cardesian.
Imho, I guess the images are more fetish-like material, but they focused on the 2 femd0m-type pics to make the article call. Because all the others images are not femd0m, definetely! Cheers! VFunBR
Don’t mind me, I’m just trying to leave a comment.
Last year I started a little project that pokes fun at those stereotypes in the kink community, but eventually it was hard to keep up, simply because there’s so much of it.
Anyone who wants to join in the fun can swing by the “tiresome-tropes” Tumblr.
I’d say that this is a problem perpetuated by the popular media (because it is), but unfortunately, it’s a trope in the kink community itself – along with red text on black background websites, with chain & whip gifs dressing up the sidebars.
At the heart of this is the stereotype that dominant women are equated with tight, black, and shiny. Carrying a riding crop helps with that, too.
What can’t be cured must be endured, Tom :-))