heather mac donald, writing sunday in <u+201c> trumped-up outrage <u+201d> on city journal<u+2019>s website: now why might it be that men regard women as sex objects? surely the ravenous purchase by females of stiletto heels, push-up bras, butt-hugging mini-skirts, plunging necklines, false eyelashes, hair extensions, breast implants, butt implants, lip implants, and mascara, rouge, and lipstick to the tune of billions a year has nothing to do with it. females would never ever exploit their sexuality to seek attention from men. [billy] bush and trump, driving to the set of days of our lives on a studio bus, comment on the legs of actress arianne zucker who is coming to meet them: <u+201c>oh, nice legs, huh?<u+201d> trump says. <u+201c>your girl<u+2019>s hot as s---, in the purple,<u+201d> bush says. how surprising that trump and bush noticed zucker<u+2019>s legs! as documented in the video, she is wearing a skimpy purple dress, with an extremely short hem cut on the bias, a low neckline and fully exposed back. she is in high heels to accentuate her bare legs. the ratio of exposed skin between zucker, on the one hand, and trump and bush, on the other, is perhaps 100 to one. but all that bare flesh must simply be because zucker has a high metabolism and gets exceedingly warm; she would never want to broadcast her sexuality to men or have men notice her. the fact that she swishes her hips when she walks must just be a quirk of anatomy. . . . the sudden onset of victorian vapors among the liberal intelligentsia and political class at the revelation of trump<u+2019>s locker-room talk is part and parcel of the left<u+2019>s hypocrisy when it comes to feminism and sexual liberation. . . . but the feminists can<u+2019>t have it both ways: declaring that women should be equal to men in all things and then still demand a chivalric deference to female<u+2019>s delicate sensibilities. either women are the same as men or they<u+2019>re not. it is particularly galling to see the selective resurrection of victorian values from the same crowd that has been pushing transgender locker rooms on the world, in an effort to destroy the last shred of girls<u+2019> innate sexual modesty.
notable & quotable: feminists turn victorian - wsj
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