Unless you’re absolute top tier, they’re not taking your measurements and making the dress specifically for you. Her stylist probably brought her whatever was available in size 12 (guessing? It’s so hard to tell when she’s surrounded by sticks), she chose the one she liked best and squeezed into it. Ill fitting…

Her head looks amazing. I love the front of the dress and I am willing to live with the back .But what goddamn idiot measured and sewed this dress a size too small? NO BELLYBUTTONS!!! Do these people think that stuffing a woman in too tight dress makes them look thinner? Whyyyyyyyy

Daisyyyyyy. I don’t love that dress but I love her and she’s gorgeous so it’s okay.

OMG SAIORSE RONAN LOOKS AMAZING, I SWOON FOREVER

Usually I like Alicia Vikander’s picks, but I can’t stop thinking prom dress when I look at that thing.

Heaven forbid a woman’s arm press against her torso, lending the appearance of having flesh. Appearing in true corporeal form is sooooo 20th century.

Are the men allowed to wear something interesting? I just look at the men’s outfits and think what interesting things I would wear.

First “blush” sighting. And Guiliana couldn’t pronounce Rene Caovilla. (PronounceNames.com is so amazing)

This makes me sick.

I think the idea of coerced consent is something that a lot of women understand as they get older, but may not have realized was coercion when they were younger.

coerced consent is something that a lot of women understand as they get older, but may not have realized was coercion when they were younger

Exactly this. We need to make sure our daughters are aware that rape and coercion, grooming and assault are very close kin. And that they have a responsibility to understand WHY they themselves might want to have sex, because they may be prey. And that’s a bad reason.

I was 14 in 1994, puberty was a sudden transformation, and suddenly there were all these men... like, overnight I went from an awkward, invisible, book-reading person who did a lot of secret listening when adults were talking to figure things out about the world, to having an awful lot of male attention in the world.

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Yup, coercion and temptation are sweaty, grinning twins. A fourteen year old, especially one who’s feeling his/her oats and going through the changes of adolescence, wants to feel adult, grown, taken seriously, not treated like a “little kid.” So offers of drugs, of flirting, of photography, of sexual encounters, can…

It was my dad’s drunken emotional stuntedness and inability to communicate with me that set me up for all the relationships I had with skeevy older guys. I was desperately looking for a male to approve of me, and I sure as hell wasn’t going to get that at home.

This. The power dynamics. The coerced consent. The normalisation. The culture. Talking about these issues turns the consent debate from questioning the victim to questioning the abuser.

I unfortunately think that little has changed... I wasn’t alive in the 70s so I can’t speak to that, but I remember still getting attention from men my dad’s age and older starting from around age 11 or 12 in the early/mid 2000s... I was tall and well-endowed, sure, but I was clearly and obviously a child. It didn’t…

Agreed. I think it’s an effective, practical argument for maintaining an age of consent. No one believes you’re magically endowed with Consent Particles on your 18th birthday, but understanding your own consent, best interests, and when you’re being coerced can only happen through years of social experience with your…

I was 13-14 in the mid-70s, and I got a lot of attention from grown men. I was thrilled by it. Boys my age either ignored me, barked at me, or called me names. Adult men talked to me like I was a person, admired me, complemented me. At the time, it was bliss, and I felt it made me special. And thanks mainly to a lack…

“...you can understand how Lori Maddox could have possibly developed not just a sincere desire to fuck adult men but the channels to do it basically in public; why an entire scene encouraged her, photographed her, gave her drugs that made all of it feel better, loved her for it, celebrated her for it, for years. You…