" I will be the first to admit I’ve been pretty biased against Corsets. I mean, come on, the first time I saw a corset was in Pirates of the Caribbean, and Elizabeth Swan took a bit of a dive after being laced up in one. I didn’t know the people to blame in that scenario, realistically, would be the woman lacing her in rather than the article of clothing itself. Moreover, with the media being full of bizarre images of body modification caused by corset wear, I was even more put off by the garment. Quite frankly, I, like most other people, saw them as nothing more than symbols of the patriarchy–an instrument of control forcing women to conform to whatever weird standards of beauty were in vogue."
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