Posted by
KsReaganite on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:02:56 PM
We have put a considerable distance, I’d like to think, from the times and climes which strictly dictated what a woman should wear or shouldn’t. Granted that many women, just like many men, do take the concept of sartorial autonomy to the edge, as any HR manager will tell you. The wardrobe or makeup of female anchors and reporters on FOX News is anything but outside the bounds of business decorum. Nonetheless, there has been a consistent whine all around liberal blogosphere about this silly matter, culminating in it being brought up this week on CNN’s Joy Behar show. Unhappy and outraged over FOX’s stratospheric ratings success, its leftwing enemies are desperate; hence the targeting of the ladies at FOX. The trigger was provided, unfortunately, by FOX’s own Megyn Kelley who, in answer to a joke, affirmed that women at the network preferred wearing skirts because such attire was more feminine than pants. A matter of opinion that is neither here nor there but perhaps one that finds nods across much of FOX’s audience demographic.
Of course, an innocuous remark like that set off the cholesterol levels of the liberals and feminists. They took umbrage, they were outraged, and their avante garde research concluded that FOX was the most sexist network because..get this…its female anchors were all blonde, attractive, and wore nice skirts. You’d think those are the criteria that feminists would be outraged to judge any woman by! But then, what do I know about the most recent advances in contemporary feminist thought.
If the wardrobe of FOX anchors was an issue at all, a normal person would have concluded this: the anchors wear what they prefer in their professional wisdom. Were there space for even more spin, we could add that indeed the slightly center right fan base of FOX probably associates pantsuits with Hillary Clinton anyway. Then there is the simple business fact that most of FOX’s most ardent viewers are men between thirty and fifty years of age. How many such men do you know who do not like an articulate blonde in a fitted skirt and heels?
Take it from an MBA: it makes business sense.