Drag queens

Originally posted by vivify
That word, "expectations"...I disagree that it's an expectation that women be sexy news anchors, or sexy in most professional fields. Again, look at Van Sustren (still can't spell it) who has no sex appeal at all. Same for the great Margaret Thatcher, Ellen Degeneres, and Hillary "pants suit" Clinton. True, sex sppeal gives one an advantage in any field, ...[text shortened]... on with others trying to get their spots, that makes it seem like their own merit isn't enough.

Van Susteran is a above average woman who does her hair and makeup according to the Fox stereotype. She has creds that many others do not have. She earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law in 1979 and a Master of Law from the school in 1982 (Fox biography) and has hosted legal analysis news programs at other outlets such as CNN. Those other women you mention are not in the cable TV News environment.

Originally posted by JS357
Van Susteran is a above average woman who does her hair and makeup according to the Fox stereotype. She has creds that many others do not have. She earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law in 1979 and a Master of Law from the school in 1982 (Fox biography) and has hosted legal analysis news programs at other outlets such as CNN. Those other women you mention are not in the cable TV News environment.

She may use some bare minimum amount of make-up (so do the males, btw), but Gretta shows that being eye-candy is not a necessity.

The other women I mentioned are women in the public eye, or directly in front of a camera; they do pretty much the same thing as the Fox News women (communicate with the public) yet don't need to be attractive.

Originally posted by vivify
She may use some bare minimum amount of make-up (so do the males, btw), but Gretta shows that being eye-candy is not a necessity.

The other women I mentioned are women in the public eye, or directly in front of a camera; they do pretty much the same thing as the Fox News women (communicate with the public) yet don't need to be attractive.

Every one of them takes the appearance nature gave her and styles it in the direction of the standards of that part of society whose approval they depend on. Men in such positions do too.

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"Women are judged and stereotyped according to their appearances nearly
all the time."

You think that men are not?

"In my childhood, my mother often told me that my physical appearance was about the most practically important fact about me."

Do you think she was wrong? Not ideally, but in reality.

Originally posted by normbenign
"Women are judged and stereotyped according to their appearances nearly
all the time."

You think that men are not?

"In my childhood, my mother often told me that my physical appearance was about the most practically important fact about me."

Do you think she was wrong? Not ideally, but in reality.

According to what you say, she was talking about you. This could have been good news or it could have been bad news.🙂

How did it turn out?

Of course going into life with that belief instilled in you might have an effect. (You didn't say whether you bought it.)

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"For the record, my mother never has talked about Normbenign. "

For the record, I tend to to say nothing about people's mothers unless they have already brought up the subject themselves, and I didn't think I was violating that precept. I missed the quotation marks.🙂