How are we still obsessed with what women wear to awards ceremonies?

There was even a competition to vote for the worst dressed.

This doesn’t happen to men. Instead, male actors are asked interesting and complex questions about their roles while female actresses are asked about where they bought their dresses, what they wear underneath them and how they got in shape.

Last year at the Oscar’s last year there was even a specific camera for women’s hands to “show their jewelry”. What?! Jennifer Aniston, Julianne Moore & Reese Witherspoon all passed. Respect!

Anne Hathaway shut down a journalist who asked her about her “regimen” by saying: “are you asking if I went on a diet?” The bottomline is, sexism happens in many different ways at award ceremonies.

As Lena Dunham explained in an interview, after receiving criticism for her red carpet outfits, that “there’s one competition for your work and then another for how you look. I guarantee there are actresses who would rather win best dressed than the actual award.” Women have to work twice as hard as men and still, afterwards, they are given twice as much shit – for their outfits included.

What if, god forbid, a celebrity has worn something just because we feel good in it? And to be honest that’s the only thing that matters and should matter to others. As Lena Dunham said in 2014: “If I’m going to go and stand up for eight hours to applaud Two and a Half Men then I’m going to wear something I’m comfortable in and I feel really good about. When someone tells me not to do something I have to do it eight to 10 more times. When I wore the pink dress to the Emmys people thought I had done it to ruin everyone’s day, but I thought: ‘nailed it’.”

So my respect goes out to all the women, especially celebrities, who have worn something bold different and out there, just because they could.