your face or your ass. or, i prefer: bullshit
catherine deneuve supposedly said, to paraphrase, that a women, as she ages, must pick between her face or her ass.
to spell it out for you readers out there: this means, as you get older, you have to decide to diet/workout/bellyband/whatevs (this is choosing your ass), or you have to decide to stay pretty (this is giving preference to your face). evidently the first one implies that your face will droop because you don’t have enough fat to hold it up, while the second means that your ass will (droop, i mean).
both, however, imply that, for women, as we age should have to actually think about these ‘issues.’
the new york times T magazine went further in depth: declaring which famous women had given ‘weight’ to face or fanny. The article is here.
i had to check, but the article was written by a woman. A woman, Kathleen Egan, who felt free to draw creative allusions between a woman who didn’t count calories (this is referred to as choosing your face, remember), and a cannibal.
i like a bit of snark as much as the next person. but i can’t really buy into the whole “as a woman you either have to be skinny or have a ‘pretty face.’ ” and I especially don’t want to hear about it with older, established and accomplished women (the women in the article included coco chanel and edith piaf).
do men have to pick between their face and their ass? i think….no. the pictures above, of men, aren’t there to be all snarky on their bodies: i could care less; but just to further indicate how unexamined ms. egan’s article is.
as someone who puts very little stock in my face or ass: but is just fine with both, thank you: i call booty smack on this article.
i tried to find kathleen egan on the internet (face or ass ms. egan: should we guess?) : but to avoid implicating the innocent: the only link i’ll use is someone calling booty smack on her article in an earlier T issue.