Comments on: Fetishizing Viktoria

By: Village Idiot

Village Idiot — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:33:18 +0000

Does it make you angry that I made you self-conscious about your excessive use of capital letters?

And I’m not one person, btw. I’m many people. Too many, sometimes. But I digress.

Anyway, I’m not one of the anti-Viktoria trolls, or one of the anti-trolls. I’m being totally serious when I say I honestly don’t know what the hell you people are talking about. I’m not on the same pills as y’all, so somehow a means of communication has to be established for this to continue, though I will say it’s funny as hell. Y’all should get gravatars so I can keep track of who’s on whose team (I bet they’d be awesome!).

By: Reivynn

Reivynn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:53:21 +0000

I love that that’s all you can say! LOL!
Freakin’ whack jobs
Every single person who wrote negative things should re-read what they’ve written. First off, you sound like one person. Secondly, you sound horribly obsessive and jealous.
I can’t say that I’ve ever personally met her, all I’m saying is why do people try and inflict their Ideals and Agendas on other people? It doesn’t even matter that shes a model, that her “look” might be inspired by other women (hello! Look at Gwen Stefani!), that shes not your idea of a “stylist”, that she has an amputated leg or even that she might be so god forsaken, empty, awful, succubus bitch. What matters here is that shes a human being just trying to find her way in life. I hope she isn’t a horrible human but if she is, she’ll find her humility. Things have a way of working out ;-) But most likely NOT on some lame blog where most people here are anonymous.

So get your selves a hobby, a life and stop worrying about how Viktoria makes YOU look. Same goes for anyone else in some sort of limelight. These people don’t speak for you, you speak for yourselves.

By: Reivynn

Reivynn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:28:20 +0000

“I’m afraid it is you that are disempowering yourself by beginning to put standardized labels on everything, including the way you describe yourself (a disabled radical feminist, cater to the heterosexual male gaze, fetish object…disabled women are allowed to have). By painting yourself into a box, these self-images are less positive than the original message which (is no mystery): [we] ARE ALL ORDIONARY people with different choices in life!”

yessss….. <:D hahaha

By: Reivynn

Reivynn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:20:09 +0000

“The fact that she is an amputee bears little relevance, as it is always others that seek to highlight this fact..”

I couldn’t agree with you more Nathan, but more for the fact that its this disgusting human trait that I see more and more when it comes to anything of this nature. Whether its race or creed, whatever. People focus on the things that matter the least.

By: nathan small

nathan small — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:08:25 +0000

I know and have worked with Viktoria and in my opinion she’s a contemporary icon on the cusp of being fully discovered. Everybody that has left negative idiotic speculative comments as to her motives and creed would do well to remember that she is just a young woman carving out a place for herself in an industry that has become increasingly homogenous. The fact that she is an amputee bears little relevance, as it is always others that seek to highlight this fact, and never Viktoria.

In short, she’s talented and going places so if I were you I’d back a winner and stop pushing your own weird insecurities on someone who’s overcome theirs.

By: Village Idiot

Village Idiot — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:24:01 +0000

What the hell are you talking about, too?

BTW: Radicals ARE whack-jobs. But is being a whack-job a bad thing? On second thought, don’t answer that because you’ll probably start writing more and more words in all caps as you get increasingly agitated and that’s RADICALLY annoying.

By: Maren

Maren — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:01:40 +0000

For your feminist mind: Viktoria is like a muse. More Fashionable and fetish. She’s more inspiring for us -women- then for most of the men i guess. I love to look at her pictures and I am a straight woman right.

By: jamie raw

jamie raw — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:34:16 +0000

“So that adds a whole new level of self-fashioning and reforming of one’s body to the mix.” – low self esteem attention seeking…

By: jane doe

jane doe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:30:14 +0000

“And I would find her beauful because of her personality along with her looks.”
what personality????!!!!!! have you met her???

By: Reivynn

Reivynn — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:12:34 +0000

You people need to get a life. If she’s doing something she enjoys, its HER life and HER right. Mind your own damn business and grow up. Its not her job to be your role model. And anyone who considers themselves “RADICAL” should understand that in normal peoples eyes, RADICAL = WHACK JOB.

GET A LIFE or at very least, get a hobby. Stop making it others peoples jobs to fulfill your own agenda.

By: deebee

deebee — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:32:09 +0000

Opinion masquerading as fact. Is this supposed to be thoughtful, insightful and logical, or just schoolyard pseudo-psychology? It smacks of the latter. Particularly when the author lets slip their own prejudices against “weirdos”, whatever they are in that person’s putrid and rather limited imagination.

Perhaps there are definitions outside the narrow-minded kneejerking mainstream for those who care to enquire. Perhaps some people like to define and refine their existence to the point that the homogenous blobs feel compelled to disparage them by any means necessary.
That looks suspiciously like the motivation behind the barely disguised spite on offer from the author.
A shallow hypocrite with zero life experience passing judgement on people they’ve taken a disliking to, perhaps because they themselves are a model of bland conformity.

I’ve worked with Viktoria a few times, and never found her less than totally professional. Unlike the author of this self regarding piece of drivel.

How about writing a piece, with a slightly more logical structure and tone, that examines your own innate prejudices? And how you came by them.

By: Saktii

Saktii — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:23:35 +0000

Viktoria Modesta is beautiful and her beauty is to be admired. One leg or No legs, she’s still more stunning than I could ever hope to be..

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By: bdclark0423

bdclark0423 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:23:57 +0000

Dear Permanently Ticked Off at the World aka Interrobang,
Did you even take time to read the short little blurb? There’s not really a mention as to which way we are to really view Viktoria except by what is in the article and by the photos. This is again repeated in a post by Viktoria (not sure if it’s the real VM, but it would be cool if it were).
I’m afraid it is you that are disempowering yourself by beginning to put standardized labels on everything, including the way you describe yourself (a disabled radical feminist, cater to the heterosexual male gaze, fetish object…disabled women are allowed to have). By painting yourself into a box, these self-images are less positive than the original message which (is no mystery): [we] ARE ALL ORDIONARY people with different choices in life!

Dear Viktoria,
you are a role model for me….you go, girl!

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:13:24 +0000

@MW
“If you read the interview the accompanies the spread, she says that she had her leg amputated because it was deformed and weak. From what I can tell, there was no medical necessity [e.g., necrosis, cancer, parasites, etc.]. So that adds a whole new level of self-fashioning and reforming of one’s body to the mix.”

Uh, have you considered that she might quite like to be able to walk? And that a deformed and weak leg might hinder that?