{"id":60892,"date":"2020-10-14T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=60892"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:58:36","slug":"for-generation-z-roughly-speaking-those-born-between-1995-and-2010-flattering-is-becoming-a-new-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/for-generation-z-roughly-speaking-those-born-between-1995-and-2010-flattering-is-becoming-a-new-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"“For Generation Z \u2014 roughly speaking, those born between 1995 and 2010 \u2014 ‘flattering’ is becoming a new F-word”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Betts<\/a> explains why it’s now somewhere between awkward and mortally offensive to use the word “flattering” to or about a member of Gen Z:<\/p>\n

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Why do we wear clothes? The mundane answer runs “for protection against the elements”, pointing to the succession of Ice Ages to which homo sapiens<\/em> was subjected, forced to borrow fur from more hirsute species.<\/p>\n

Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. The ancient civilisations that grew up in the fertile valleys of the Euphrates, the Nile and the Indus, were more tropical than a Wham! video, and clearly using their outfits to signify status, occupational, sex and gender differentiation.<\/p>\n

Some may even have wanted to be regarded as individuals \u2014 despite we modern types imagining we invented all that \u2014 cutting a dash with a tufted Mesopotamian fringe here, or supple Egyptian weave there.<\/p>\n

I raise the question because the issue of why we dress is feeling modish again, and not merely because the great grounding brought about by Covid has made comfort king.<\/p>\n

The costumes of both genders had been heading in this direction already \u2014 what with normcore, athleezure, and the lemming-like “casualisation”. But, I’m talking about something else here, a resistance to the at-one-time uncontroversial notion of what is “flattering”, a term now considered oppressive by the young.<\/p>\n

To quote the Guardian<\/em>‘s Jess Cartner-Morley, never backward about coming forward in identifying a zeitgeist moment: “For Generation Z \u2014 roughly speaking, those born between 1995 and 2010 \u2014 ‘flattering’ is becoming a new F-word.<\/p>\n

“To compliment a woman on her ‘flattering’ dress is passive-aggressive body-policing, sneaked into our consciousness in a Trojan horse of sisterly helpfulness. It is a euphemism for fat-shaming, a sniper attack slyly targeting our hidden vulnerabilities. ‘Flattering’, in other words, is cancelled.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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