Ariel Winter Fires Back at People Who Freaked Out Over Her Cleavage Dress
Ariel Winter Slams Critics Over Low-Cut Dress She Wore to ‘Modern Family’ Panel https://t.co/onD9P2ov8j pic.twitter.com/iUQno87rTu
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) May 5, 2017
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Us Weekly – Ariel Winter lashed out at haters who criticized the low-cut dress she wore to a Modern Family panel on Wednesday, May 3.
“Why TF does anyone care that I didn’t dress casual like everyone else for the panel?” the 19-year-old wrote on Instagram. “Why do I have to be like everyone else.” …
“Why can’t people just let other people feel good about themselves and do what they want?” Winter, who plays Alex Dunphy on the ABC sitcom, continued. “WEAR WHATEVER YOU WANT PEOPLE! As long as you feel good about yourself that’s what matters. I know I did. Don’t ever let anyone stifle who you are and how you express yourself. Rant over :)” …
The teen, who underwent breast reduction surgery in 2015, was open about her surgery and proudly showed off her scars at the SAG Awards last year. “They are part of me and I’m not ashamed of them at all,” she later tweeted.
What are we doing here? Seriously, what the hell are we as a culture doing?
I don’t know if the crap Ariel Winter took for the dress came from the far right or the fringe left, but I suspect it was both. Uptight religious zealots on one side, judgmental self-loathing feminist on the other, joining forces with interlocking fire of outrage over a grown woman showing a portion of her boobs. At 19, Ariel Winter is old enough to be team leader of soldiers in combat. But she can’t pick out a dress that shows a good part of her rack. At least according to people who must think she’s actually Alex Dunphy and Modern Family is still in Season 1. It’s bananas.
Like I said when Emma Watson got slammed as a bad feminist for showing some cleavage and my beloved Karen Gillan got body shamed for wearing a belly shirt in posters for the Jumanji reboot, I can’t figure out where the line is any more. I have friends who walked the entire Pride March behind a chick who was naked to the waist and everyone applauded her for Freeing the Nipple. Go Sun’s Out/Gun’s Out at a beach in Provincetown on the Cape, and you’re a hero for breaking down barriers to … something. I’m not sure. But if you’re a pretty woman of voting age wearing a dress that gives millions of guys boner pants, then it’s an outrage and you need to cover those things up.
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Even if I wanted to keep up, I can’t. Knowing when to celebrate a woman’s body and when to denounce it is like a club. Only every time to try to swipe your card to get in, they’ve changed the code and you need to reprogram it. I guess we should all just learn to appreciate Lena Dunham naked. That’ll keep us on the right side of history.