I was at a conference today that focused on the intersection of appearance and identity, at least ostensibly so. Unfortunately it was more like a boys' club circle jerk where they all pimped each others' work and focused mostly on women and beauty and how plastic surgery is an art. Which of course it is. But what about women and objectification and disfigurement and social status and privilege? Two women did present but not terribly effectively, though they both openly alluded to feminism without fully getting into it. They at least placed appearance in context a bit. The one guy, an economist, coy-ly and repeatedly referred to a joke about how housework makes you ugly, to prove that mostly women do housework BECAUSE they are ugly, since ugly women don't make much money. They all laughed and laughed. I raised my hand to comment a few times throughout the day but never got called on like the men did.
Did I mention some of these guys are my colleagues? So...
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