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*
interesting the root of glamour (good name for a magazine) - i think it;s just an innocent (is it ever?) example of a word migrating from it’s root meaning . but if you think about it the whole glamour thing (not going into the crappy euphemism that is ‘glamour modelling’ - somebody just stole the word there) is about the spell cast by celebrity and the people who magically appear to have the perfect life career family bank balance etc. So the root is still there if you look for it.
and is it too late to wish you a powerful samhain? if it is, i’ll just send my love
x
Comment by simply wondered — October 31, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Not too late at all, Samhain Blessings to you too!
Comment by ethicallyspeaking — October 31, 2007 @ 1:54 pm