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History of Feminism

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2014, 11:58 AM Nov 2014

Male TV host wears same suit for year; no one notices [View all]

Australian TV host Karl Stefanovic wore the same suit for a year and no one noticed.

Stefanovic, who co-hosts the Today morning program in Australia, said he was frustrated by the sexism targeted at his female colleagues.

"No one has noticed; no one gives a (expletive)," Stefanovic told Australian newspaper The Age. "But women, they wear the wrong color and they get pulled up. They say the wrong thing and there's thousands of tweets written about them."

Stefanovic said women are judged "more harshly and keenly for what they do, what they say and what they wear," reports The Age.

http://www.kens5.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/11/17/tv-host-same-suit-sexism/19161031/

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Male TV host wears same suit for year; no one notices [View all] LanternWaste Nov 2014 OP

i always feel for michelle obama. mopinko Nov 2014 #1

All first ladies since I can remember have been lightnig rods Warpy Nov 2014 #8

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mopinko Nov 2014 #18

I have never forgotten my first business trip I took with a male colleague rocktivity Nov 2014 #2

There is sexism against men in the fashion area nichomachus Nov 2014 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author LanternWaste Nov 2014 #4

I agree....I think he looked pretty sharp Lochloosa Nov 2014 #5

Yeah, it was SUMMER, ferkirssakes Warpy Nov 2014 #9

I don't perceive simplistic convenience as being sexist. LanternWaste Nov 2014 #7

I do/did nichomachus Nov 2014 #12

is your premise "required course for employed on how to dress" limited only to males? LanternWaste Nov 2014 #13

Yes n/t nichomachus Nov 2014 #14

So the female employees had no dress code at all? cyberswede Nov 2014 #15

if they were that harsh on the men noiretextatique Nov 2014 #17

I noticed our president looks sharp in his suits IronLionZion Nov 2014 #21

The "business suit" needs to GO.... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2014 #6

No need to change a classic. :) cyberswede Nov 2014 #16

This is the 21st Century.... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2014 #19

And water is wet... He didn't need to where the same suit to prove this point. glowing Nov 2014 #10

I'm glad he did this. Sheldon Cooper Nov 2014 #11

Interesting ismnotwasm Nov 2014 #20