If it’s not some troll taunting me fives times a day, it’s some guy threatening to sue me, or a new stack of unpayable bills or a photo like this one, of the Man Repeller’s friends.
I hope David Carlo Photography doesn’t mind me borrowing his picture here. It helps to illustrate why I don’t “get” the Man Repeller and why I feel more and more like a stranger in a strange land.
The best way to counter these feelings of existential malaise is a sedative and a long thoughtful look at Godfrey Gao.
He is set to be the first Asian male supermodel. He is 6’4″ and loves to cook. Let’s all forget our troubles for a moment and just be present, ahem. I know Godfrey would want that.
The first? Seriously? Though My Man Godfrey is certainly deserving of the accolade.
I might be clueless, but why did it take this long? Clearly the suits who make these decisions haven’t spent enough time watching jdramas, kdramas or movies from east Asia, it would have happened faster if they had.
6’4″ and cooks? Isn’t that the only true requirement in a perfect man. Much can be overlooked when your tall guy is hunching over the stove making you dinner. Oh, Godfrey, I’m glad you’re finally being appreciated!
Seconding Chelsea Rae’s sentiments. And doing my best to ignore that first pic, which looks really bizarrely photoshopped.
I must say I don’t really ‘get’ the Man Repeller either. Her writing doesn’t have me rolling in the aisles the way it does for some people, and her schtick tends to rely rather heavily on the fact that she is extremely wealthy and conventionally attractive, neither of which – to my mind – are attributes which particularly repel men. She seems like a nice enough girl, though.
I am in my 50s and have been dressing like the man repeller my whole life. I never felt comfortable in conventionally feminine clothing. And I have a husband! My husband happens to like the fact that I do not dress in an overtly sexy and conventionally feminine way and he actually finds it attractive, my smoldering sexuality known to only him. (said with just a bit of tongue in cheek). I think that she is about how women who don’t dress overtly sexy “repel” men because they don’t highlight their feminine attributes, like the horrible Kardashians. And women who dress like that are not dressing for men, but for other women who are more about dressing in an unexpected way. As far as she goes, I think she lives on 5th Ave or Park Ave and she goes to NYU. She probably does come from money and she may live downtown near NYU or still live with her parents. You can see their opulent style of decorating in some of her photos. Good for her for parlaying her “man repeller” idea into some noteriety for herself and maybe a career. But this style of dressing is not new. Just look at a Comme des Garcons fashion show (she started her company in 1969).
I feel so out of it, here in the Midwest, where the “Hasidic Ho” look has not yet caught on. Worst things I ever see are bad leggings, etc.
How can one resist a post tagged angst, bloggers, hot guys?
I’ve actually never seen that blog before but just the shot cracks me up. The intentionally unintentional.
I’ll have to track down some more shots of Godfrey – thanks for the introduction.
Helloooooooooooooooooo Godfrey.
i liked the man repeller blog at first… since then the appeal has grown thin.
Godfrey is gorgeous. I hope he has a long and profitable career!
“The best way to counter these feelings of existential malaise is a sedative and a long thoughtful look at” David Duff in his long Johns!
Grrrrrh!
Yeah, when I first saw the Man Repeller blog I thought it was really funny. I did not realize that she was actually a loyal defender of fashion, and was using this as a platform to make some kind of statement about how women should dress. Now that the self-mockery is gone, I no longer dig it.
So goodbye Man Repeller and hellooooo Godfrey!
I want to see Duff in the longjohns!
I’m loving man-repeller! I think she has applied great humour and wit to an industry renowned for taking itself too seriously. Kudos to her for doing it in a way that also applauds fashion and those who do not dress to promote their sexuality, but dress for themselves.
Thanks for the picture, I just got loved up and dumped by a 22 year old, I will soothe myself the only way I know how – pictures of hot male models. And he cooks, I can imagine him in his apron…
Thank you for the picture of Godfrey. What a beautiful man.
P.S. Why is it that 6”4′ and cooks is the perennial description of how great and “real” a male model is? He’s a model. He’s probably a little weird, like most people who make their living based on their looks. If you want to fantasize that he is the perfect man, why not take the imaginative initiative yourself?
That man is beautiful. I can’t stop staring.
I was just trying to remember what the repeller’s blog was called so this is a very timely post. I used to read her stuff, but then i stopped reading fashion blogs for a while. i just went back to look at hers and my god that girl seems to have mistaken self deprecation with self obsession. its also pretty annoying that the entire blog is centred around what she presumes guys don’t want to see, so it seems like shes still defining her style only by how guys dont want to fuck her.
she really does seem like more of a fashion victim than most other bloggers.
Also the tiring habit of yelling vagina everytime a dress has flowers or ruffles or any swirly bits makes me think of the fug girls at their very worst. christ that comment was long i only went back and read a couple of her posts but so much vexation at these people.
Anyway have i missed something who’s trying to sue you?
The girl on the right reminds me of Fenella from Chorlton and the Wheelies
http://www.boylemeister.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/chorlton/pictures/tn_fenella.jpg
How unfortunate.
Mmm…Sister Wolf sho’ does appreciates her houseboys…thank you for playing to your audience!
Godfrey is a babe, but like Takeshi Kaneshiro (cute as a puppy in Chungking Express) he just needs a little bit of aging and seasoning before becoming a veritable Stone. Cold. Fox.
The Man Repeller is not bad. She goes for wit, and sometime even gets there, and that is more than one can say for a lot of her fashion blogging contemporaries.
he could get it…a lot…
Happy New Year Godfrey.
I’d love to see the Man Repeller with some makeup on.
Loves to cook? That’s all well and good but does he wash the dishes and clean up after himself?
Besides, I’m still not over Takeshi Kaneshiro (even though he’s gay… oops, didn’t you know?)
http://men.stareastasia.com/takeshi-kaneshiro/
Oh my god
Men like Godfrey are my favourite (meaning asian, not cooks. no racist)
thanks for awaring me sister wolf, I’ll be forever in debt for Godfrey
hoot hoot ! what a beautiful man
I love the Man Repeller. I find her very funny and very different from the other fashion bloggers. What I like most is that she doesn’t take fashion too seriously. I voted for her on bloglovin as the most original blog of 2011. Sister Wolf who did you vote for ?
Marie – Good point. I was just repeating what I read about him. LET ME ADD, then, that his favorite book is Crime and Punishment, which he read in the original Russian. He loves Patti Smith, Ravi Shankar, and the Pixies. He plays guitar, piano, and mandolin. He owns 4 rescued dogs and hopes to have a large family.
toriikoko – I voted for me because I have the most original blog.
Still on the topic of Chinese men, I vote Kenneth Tong for “Cunt Of The Week”:
http://johannhari.com/2011/01/12/kenneth-tong-the-interview
Godfrey – yes, although I’m a bit suspicious of this reading “Crime and Punishment” in original Russian. Really, Godfrey? Really?? ? Oh, OK then.
As for Man Repeller – I don’t know if the outfits in the pictures she posted from the collections repel men, but they certainly repelled me. They all should end in the trash bin on “What not to wear”.
Cricket9- (Shhhh! I made that up about Godfrey, at the suggestion of a commenter) Yes, those outfits are flawless if repellent is the intent!!!
On a totally different subject, I would dearly like to know why Americans do not think the past-tense of spit is not spat.
Sit and sat seem to be OK but you only like saying spit all the time.
Please explain.
And Cricket9 – I also say ho ho to the alleged reading of “Crime and Punishment” in Russian. Sounds a bit sus. to me but then I am a fairly cynical old lady.
Oh bugger, you know what I mean. I had it right the first time and then I added another and totally unnecessary “not”.
I’m going home now.
Andra – (Shhhh! It’s my personal fantasy, don’t fuck with it!) I say “spat” and here’s another language complaint: You can’t say “blah blah is so cliche.” Cliche is a god damned noun. This drives me crazy. It’s like “hate on” instead of just “hate.”
Godfrey would certainly be repelled with the fact that Man Repeller still lives with her parents. If she could repel with the same force from her own student flat, it would make her so much more credible.
yum yum. thanks for the eye candy 🙂
And I also don’t understand why Americans don’t realise that saying “I could care less” means the total opposite to what they want to say.
Why is that?
Do they not understand their own (well one they borrowed from the Poms) language better.
No, I give up.
@ another old biddy: i never heard of kenneth tong, but after reading that interview i think he should be awarded “cunt of the year”. what a fucking twit!
as for the man repeller, i think a lot of her posts are hilarious, but i have asked myself lately if she would be that widely recognized by “big fashion media” if she weren’t your cookie cutter young, super thin, and comfortably wealthy girl, and therefore very marketable. still, there’s nothing wrong with that. but she does mingle with the ridiculous hipster blogger posse, and that’s just booooring.
plus: godfrey is beautiful.
Jill is a obviously woman of taste and discernment which is not only demonstrated on her blog but also in her desire (yes, I think I can use that word) to see me in my long Johns. Please, Jill, ensure that you are seated on one of those lovely cushions you illustrate on your blog because what you are about to see makes ladies swoon and strong men weep – no, no, not with laughter!
http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2011/01/david-duff-fashion-icon.html#tp
Oh David I swoon.
Love the waist sash tied so casually. Such savoir faire, such flair, the tousled hair, the just out of bed look.
But is it fuckable? Any takers?
Godfrey – beware. The Duffster is on the loose.
Sorry, Andra, but Jill comes first, er, I mean, after ‘Big Sis’, of course.
And Godfrey ain’t in with a look in!
SW, heh-heh, you fiend. Godfrey should start reading “Finnegan’s wake”. In original… Apparently he was raised in Vancouver, as per magazine MacLean; that explains his mellow look.
Andra, I’m with you on Americans’ and Canadians’ knowledge and use of their own language. If I read “palate” instead of “palette” one more time!!!
I work with quite a few fluently bilingual (French/English) people, who can’t write in either language.
Cricket9 – Ha, he did his phd on Finnegan’s Wake at Cambridge.
Cricket – I’m guessing you are Canadian.
I am truly concerned about the future of the English language.
I am old and by the time I was 8 I understood English so well that I used to teach grades younger than me at my school in Adelaide.
They didn’t pay me either. I could probably sue (would if I was American for sure).
Boasting I know, and I have certainly forgotten a whole lot since then but I still read 5 books a week and just love my language.
I do like all languages and actually speak 5 or 6 of them well enough to get by but English is important to me and I am unhappy about the state of it lately. Teachers are actually telling children that it’s alright not to be able to spell or have the remotest idea what to do with apostrophes, just jam one in wherever you think it looks good. Nonsense.
I will never understand the shorthand that passes for English nowadays.
Nowadays…. why, you young whippersnappers just don’t know the joys of good writing.
Bah, humbug and all that stuff.
Granma Andra
And furthermore, it is 31 C. in Cairns on a Saturday afternoon and I am now going to sit in my spa and drink white wine, watch the honey eaters feed on my jade vine and read my book.
Ha ha ha.
And fuck the poor people.
Sorry.
Teachers are actually telling children that it’s alright not to be able to spell or have the remotest idea what to do with apostrophes, just jam one in wherever you think it looks good.
LIKE in Finnegans Wake? ;-D
I think I would be thoroughly intimidated (and secretly irritated, because I tried learning Russian once and that shit’s HARD) by an Adonis who reads Crime and Punishment in the original text.
Godfrey enjoys comics like Swamp Thing and cries (big, manly tears) at The Wrath of Khan and listens to classy stuff like Raphael Saadiq and uses his polyglot powers for GOOD, tirelessly translating the works of imprisoned PEN writers in Uzbekistan.
That is, whenever he has time away from the slathering of baby oil and the perfecting of his best “Blue Steel” and “Le Tigre” poses.
Tartandtreacly -MY Godfrey is an intellectual but he’s not all uppity about it. I once had a boyfriend who could say things like “Every time I read War and Peace,…” without sounding pretentious. But we wasn’t cute. I like the PEN writers though, that works for me!
Oh goodness, Godfrey combined with tartandtreacly’s comment made my day. Thank you Sister Wolf & tartandtreacly!
Mr Duff – I raced off to admire your portrait and manly figure at the given url – and, excuse my curiosity and the ever so slightly-smutty tone – but is that an entrenching tool featured to the left, hanging on your wall?