Glamour
I’ve been put into a pool of people to possibly be interviewed by a glossy mag (can’t say who! Not allowed.)
to interview three women (preferably glamorous and between the ages of 24-45!) who have stepped off the career ladder to set up successful businesses tailored to the way they and other women like (need/want) to work.
Between 24 and 45 - yes; stepped off a career ladder - yes. Successful business? Depends on your definition of success really. As for Glamorous. Why would a business woman have to be glamorous? And what is glamorous anyway?
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) glam·our –noun
1. the quality of fascinating, alluring, or attracting, esp. by a combination of charm and good looks.
2. excitement, adventure, and unusual activity: the glamour of being an explorer. –adjective
3. magic or enchantment; spell; witchery.
4. suggestive or full of glamour; glamorous: a glamour job in television; glamour stocks. Also, glamor.
[Origin: 1710–20; earlier glammar, in sense of occult learning]
(red and bold is my addition) That was what I was thinking, to cast a glamour, to project a false image, to fool, to trick. To present yourself as you are not. I hear women friends talk about "Putting a face on" when applying makeup. It’s all a mask isn’t it? It’s the real world equivalent of Dracula casting a Glamour to entrance his victims.
Then I am definitely not glamorous. I don’t project anything but me, what you see is what you get. It’s the way I am and the way I do business - transparent.
Besides how can a woman call herself Glamorous when faced with pages full of artificial, patriarchal beauty standards? Every time a child turns on the TV it’s populated by homunculi distorted by those standards, with swollen lips, over large eyes, enormous breasts and not a body hair in sight apart from the carefully sculpted lock on her head. Oh and don’t forget dangerously thin too.
*sigh*
