Papa Able (comically) forwarded me a link to a wildly uncritical piece of art criticism on GirlieGirlArmy.com--"Your Guide to Glamazon Living," and I'm...lost and appalled! First, the truly creepy paintings. Then, the description of the "saintlike," "supermodel gorgeous," wheelchair-bound artist. Then the odd promise of "Glitterati" being present at the March opening. Then the unflaggingly sycophantic comment thread. Who/What/How is the Girlie Girl Army?!
They appear to be a couple of thirty-ish New York JAPs who are vegan and plan parties...? I've found a quite funny interview with one of them, a certain Chloe Jo (a clear, Clubland pseudonym--the woman claims to have been raised Orthodox). There is so much fishy stuff happening: this eating-disorder-parading-about-as-GREENness, this definitively tacky Carrie Bradshaw 'fabulosity' and 'glamour' bullshit that refuses to die, and worst--this gaping absence of negative press regarding Chloe Jo's fakaktah schemes and notions. Am I going to end up on some kind of (Zionist) Watch List for posting this haterized account?
The Army's "Generals" are posed as women "brave enough" to claim that you can "look hot and save the world at the same time." Like, you can go to PETA rallies and also subscribe to mass-culturally defined beauty ideals (like thinness and orangeness and Japanese straightening treatmentsness) all at once--G-d damn thrills and chills. It's funny that someone so dedicated to saving beautiful animals and plants and airs is also so stringent and limited in her opinions of human beauty (and class). And what's with the military metaphor? It's dumb for me to even attempt to account for these broads. We have very different ideas--end of story. But I was alarmed by their site and mission and simply had to share with friends.
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