Does anybody else watch Project Runway? It's a guilty pleasure of mine.
Season 6 is underway, and in the second episode a contestant called Malvin was assigned the task of creating a maternity outfit, and he decided to go really conceptual with it and try and evoke the metaphor of a chicken mother with her egg.
Now, aside from the fact that we're obviously mammals and carry our "egg" around inside of us whereas chickens expel them and then sit on them, the judges were actually offended by the idea of pregnant women being compared to chickens. I think that if you're looking for a model of a good mother, then a chicken is actually a pretty good one. I mean, they sit on their eggs constantly except for brief excursions to find food, and then after the chicks hatch they spend most of their time guarding them and showing them the ropes, right? In the animal kingdom, that's not too shabby!
I think there are probably a lot of ways to do a take on the "chicken and egg" theme in maternity wear and make it cute and tongue-in-cheek. But the judges didn't seem to think so. Do you have any opinions?
Season 6 is underway, and in the second episode a contestant called Malvin was assigned the task of creating a maternity outfit, and he decided to go really conceptual with it and try and evoke the metaphor of a chicken mother with her egg.
Now, aside from the fact that we're obviously mammals and carry our "egg" around inside of us whereas chickens expel them and then sit on them, the judges were actually offended by the idea of pregnant women being compared to chickens. I think that if you're looking for a model of a good mother, then a chicken is actually a pretty good one. I mean, they sit on their eggs constantly except for brief excursions to find food, and then after the chicks hatch they spend most of their time guarding them and showing them the ropes, right? In the animal kingdom, that's not too shabby!
I think there are probably a lot of ways to do a take on the "chicken and egg" theme in maternity wear and make it cute and tongue-in-cheek. But the judges didn't seem to think so. Do you have any opinions?
