TJ Walker points out a double standard: an Australian male host wore the same suit every day without comment, while his female co-host rarely repeated outfits. Politicians like Obama and Al Gore face public mockery for appearance in ways their counterparts don't.
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Is life unfair? An Australian talk show host, a male, wore the very same suit and tie and outfit every day for a year just to see if anyone noticed.
Nobody did.
So this was the Australian host of.
The Today show, major show there as.
Well as in the US and we're not talking about some little Internet audience where people are only watching on a cell phone.
This is a major broadcast show.
And the male host wore the exact same outfit every day for a year and said nobody noticed. In contrast, his female counterpart basically had.
To wear something different every day, rarely repeated it.
The implication, of course, is that there.
Is a double standard and it's perhaps unfair to.
I think that's a pretty persuasive argument.
It doesn't break down.
100% of life is easy for men and awful for women. But I do think that people scrutinize what women wear to a much greater extent and therefore women do have to.
Spend more time thinking about what they're.
Going to wear, if nothing else, just to avoid criticism. Now, if you're a man, you can be criticized too. We've seen that in the last year.
Barack Obama wore a light colored suit.
And that's all anyone in Washington and pundits talked about for a week. And not so recently when at a summit in China, he wore a non western suit and everybody made fun of him.
So the criticism is different.
For women, you're criticized if you wear the same thing. For men, you're often criticized if you don't wear exactly the same thing. On balance, sure, I think men have it a lot easier when it comes to how they dress and the standards they're held to in media. However, let's not forget this isn't a completely black and white situation.
Let's not forget in 2000, Al Gore.
Was viciously mocked as if it were a character flaw.
The fact that he was balding.
I mean, I remember numerous, numerous stories mocking him. Not just by Sean Hannity on Fox, by a lot of mainstream media ridiculing him. He was also ridiculed for wearing a.
Brown shirt from time to time.
So this mockery can go both ways.
And let's not forget the example of Chris Christie.
Because he's a man, because he's a white man, he is generally considered safe for comedians to poke fun of. And boy, have they had a lot of fun mocking him for being grotesquely obese. Or at least he used to be before he got his lap surgery.
It's hard for me to imagine comedians.
Being that tough, that brutal on a woman politician who's overweight.
But then you can make the counter.
Argument and say, hey, well tj, if you're an overweight woman, you're not even.
Considered to be eligible for high level office.
By the way, when you're using a video backdrop like this, this can happen. So this isn't actually a TV studio.
I'm in, it's a video loop running off a laptop.
But I just want to share that with you in the spirit of full disclosure. Thanks for joining me. Questions or comments on Image Media training? Post them right here. Thanks.
