Guilty!

I confess. I looked at an Oscar Night "fashion disasters" pictorial on MSN. I hate myself for looking at it, but not as much as I hate Joan Rivers, Mr. Blackwell, Kay Giantis, and all the parasites who gather to chew on Oscar fashion.

At bottom, the Oscar fashion pundits are woman-hating misogynists who use the same formula to get out their bile at highly accomplished women. In the fashion pundit universe, the only acceptable style is "classic elegance" represented this year by Kate Blanchett. When any actress deviates from the highly conservative elegance look, writers for fashion pundits delve deeply into the obscure corners of their English degrees to come up with insulting euphemisms, similes, and analogies for their ugliness. For example, Kay Giantis of MSN characterized Jennifer Hudson's "metallic python shrug" as looking "like something the flamboyant Dr. Smith would have made out of one of Will Robinson's aluminum foil jumpsuits on "Lost in Space." Once Hudson and other actresses stepped out of the narrow, classic elegance box, they become the target for put-downs of female moral character, intelligence, and sexuality that are aimed ultimately at all women. They're Medusas and other monsters, freaks, ditzy types', pitiful little children, passive victims of male mistakes, and sluts all rolled into one. For pundits like Kay Giantis, there's only one model of proper femininity. The rest are just "women."

By the way, Jennifer Hudson looked great in the accompanying picture. So did most of the other women portrayed as "cringe-inducing disasters."