accidentalchinesehipsters:

Click through to see the picture which I did not feel quite right about re-posting on this blog to be tumblrd through the Internet. Wang Ziqi and Gu Mingtao perpetrated horrific acts against other human beings, and even in the face of the unsettling expeditiousness of the Chinese justice system it is hard to feel sympathy for them. Still, can the outfit the madam went to her execution hearing in be considered funny? If, you know, objectively it is a funny thing to wear, ever?

It’s likely that the last thing that Wang Ziqiwore in her life was pink cartoon pajamas with rabbit-teddy bears on them. And she still looked like a gangster.

A lot has been made of the way that people on trial, say, the “Manson Girls” have dressed themselves for court. It seems to be a gesture towards a bit of agency when the evidence and one’s words are being very harshly judged. And so, I’m trying to pick up on what message she, this woman who would have been such an excellent candidate for this website were she not recently executed, was trying to send. Buh. What?