The hypocrisy of the new age feminist constantly amazes me. The use of botox, plastic surgery and other beauty enhancers is way up, the selfie thing, all the snap chat filters is a thing, they want everyone to notice them ,then attack any man that responds, then wonder why they aren't taken seriously.

Yes I do believe they are told to dress that way. Barbie still sells product and anything on TV is a product.

Yes. The above is a run on sentence. Just posting the thoughts that came to mind.

And, always sleeveless, even in the winter.

All the news shows I watch the news reporters are sitting behind a desk. I have no idea if their legs are crossed or not.

Some of the meteorologists are walking around but they are usually fit and can wear today's fashions.

Exactly what is "more business like clothing" in today's world?

eta: what's wrong with sleeveless?

It's hot under the lights, thus the sleeveless. I bet the men wish they could go sleeveless.

Actually I hear most sets are quite cold. They crank the air--keep the men in suits from sweating. Curiously at lunch yesterday this came up. It seems very obvious the women allowed on air are there for one reason. The sex appeal factor. #metoo mya$$ did NOTHING. Meant NOTHING. And women only have themselves to blame.

The meteorologist on the local station we watch is quite pregnant and wears dresses so tight you can often see her belly button which has popped out.

"The meteorologist on the local station we watch is quite pregnant and wears dresses so tight you can often see her belly button which has popped out."

How Is that bad?

I also dislike newscaster dressing like they just rolled out of a nightclub. I would prefer to see the ladies dressed in "business professional" attire.

If women don't want to be taken as advertising themselves as 'sexy', why do they mimic the revealing clothing that prostitutes wear for exactly that reason? There's a big distance between nicely groomed and that. Is it some kind of 'power play' by women? Look but don't touch? Women competing against other women for male attention?

It is a fact that women on television are intended to appeal to men. Men want to look at *desirable* women. No news there -- pardon the pun.

You must be watching Fox, senior gal. I know on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow wears a black blazer and top every night. But she's not there for a fashion show but to deliver the news.

That's why I watch PBS News Hour, and the half-hour local news. I'm much too cranky to put up with such silliness. I think more people should be cranky!

I personally think CBS Gail King needs to buy her dresses 2 sizes larger...she must use a shoe horn to get into them! FOX is certainly no worse than other network...at least their ladies have class. When Megan Kelley was on there, people thought she dressed too sexy but now that she is on NBC, all is okay....

Women wearing revealing clothing are not asking to be sexually abused..but they are asking to be noticed. They do want looked at.

The criteria for Fox hiring women is they be blonde with long curls, thin but with big boobs and to wear too tight dresses. Very unprofessional looking, IMO.

I agree with chi. No one earns or deserves unwanted sexual attention.

I don't deny that women shouldn't be sexually abused for how they dress. My problem is with how the new age feminist have redefined sexual abuse to mean any little thing that they choose to be offended by. It's demeaning to the women who been sexually abused in the real sense.

It entrapment. Let's dress and behave in a manner to get some guy to make remarks and then cry about how "abusive" they are. Then we can proudly proclaim how we are victims.

Seniorgal, I often agree with you. Not long ago, DH pointed out a female newsperson who looked like she'd arrived at work from a cocktail party in a skimpy lace sheath. Black. It was morning, and DH is hardly one to normally notice fashion ;0) She was in stark contrast to the business suit clad man sitting beside her.

I don't think I find that to be consistently the case with the Seattle stations we are normally watching. Maybe its more a conservative part of the country, not much haute couture going on in Seattle ;0) I do see sleeveless year around behind the newsdesks and don't understand why. I don't think I have sleeveless clothing that I wear from about October through June, if even in July in the Pacific Northwest. Certainly not December and January.

Maddielee, I'm seeing some redesigned sets these days that are not formal desks. Yes, legs are showing, either in bar-height chairs (where are their notes kept?) or at a casual table. Or even standing, now we are seeing shoes that weren't usually in view.

Sexual harassment means different things to different people. Some women might enjoy cat calls and think they are flattering. Another woman might feel threatened by them and consider it harassment. And there are varying degrees of harassment, ranging from comments to what our President proudly suggests famous men can get away with doing to women.

Entrapment? Maybe instead of blaming women for "entrapping" men with their clothing, we should focus on why some men think it's okay to make unsolicited comments about a woman's body, regardless of what she is wearing.

I stopped watching TV news somewhere around August 2016. Even the local stuff. All it did was make mad or raised my blood pressure :-) But I had many of the same thoughts then about female on-air personalities. They all looked like they were ready to go out to a cocktail or dinner party......not deliver the news or report on the weather. And I truly do not understand the men in shirts and suit jackets and the women with bare arms......somebody is uncomfortable. And I bet it is not the men :-)

Although I seldom watch much network TV, Madam Secretary is a big favorite of mine. The way Tia Leoni dresses for that part is how I would like to see the female TV news personalities dress - semi-casual but still very professional; completely covered but entirely feminine and attractive.

"Maddielee, I'm seeing some redesigned sets these days that are not formal desks. Yes, legs are showing, either in bar-height chairs (where are their notes kept?) or at a casual table. Or even standing, now we are seeing shoes that weren't usually in view."

Interesting. What news programing market are you seeing these shows? Are you sure they are news shows and not opinion programing? There is a difference, often one that viewers don't know are different.

Chi - and others- how in the world did the op refer to sexual harassment? She refereed to a professional/business like look. Never mentioned how sexy (or not) they dressed. She mentioned them showing leg....NEVER said they were asking for unwanted attention. She compared a man in a suit vs a woman in a low cut/high skirt look. It's more about professionalism than sexism.

Kinda went off on a tangent.....

Julie, I wasn't responding to OP's post. Another poster linked the topic to the #metoo movement, which was about sexual harassment. That is what inspired my post.

I wonder why the woman are blamed for looking glamorous while delivering the news? Last night I had a long, long-distance talk with my brother. He was telling me about an interview he saw on TV news and he said, "He was being interviewed by that beautiful woman -- oh wait -- that's ridiculous -- all the interviewers are beautiful women." He was quite critical about it. He's a normal man who certainly enjoys good looking women but it bothered him. So what do you think is going on? OK, if you haven't guessed: beauty is a job qualification and they won't keep their job long if they show up for every show wearing a neutral colored suit and high necked white blouse! The station management doesn't have to tell them what to wear. Please, don't blame the women for using botox, etc. They are competing for a limited number of jobs.

At least they are not in jammies and slippers. LOL

Chi: I couldn't have written your post any better! Thank you for what you said.

maddielee, my choices here in my coastal community for news are ABC, NBC, CBS Seattle. I can get news on one Portland Oregon station again recently with our cable lineup. We're about halfway in between and neither have weather accurate to us ;0) And yes, I do know the difference between news and opinion programming.

maddielee - whatever happened to modesty? Why does every female body part have to be on display? I would like to hear your viewpoint.

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maddielee - whatever happened to modesty? Why does every female body part have to be on display? I would like to hear your viewpoint.”

My viewpoint is that there is nothing about a bare arm or pregnant women that others should find immodest.

My question would be why a pregnant women doing her job would bother you? Should she hide under a tent? Put a belt around her belly so you don’t see she has “belly button”? Or maybe you prefer she stay home and not work? What exactly is not modest about her clothing? And why does what someone else wears bother you?

Offended by a belly button. What is wrong with people?

When I was pregnant in the 70s maternity clothing was still loose and unattractive. Gotta hide that body was the message. It's so refreshing today to see young women embrace the changes their bodies go through during pregnancy. So sad that some choose to degrade them for it.

Who's degrading? Many people find it off-putting for a pregnant woman to reveal so much. Yesterday, at our beach club, there was a woman who has to be 8 months pregnant in a maternity bikini! I think just about everyone there over 50 was very uncomfortable. In our day, the sharing of ones pregnant belly was a very intimate thing we only shared with our husband and perhaps a sister. Certainly, not the entire world. Shameful? Of course not- no more than our breasts are but it is not something women in our culture that women typically share. No one is suggesting a return to the voluminous tops of the 1950's, but a bit of modesty is appreciated by most people.

Oh I love to see pregnant women wearing clothing where you can actually see the outline of the baby belly. My generation would never have done that and instead wore baggy as if to hide something..but hide what..a miracle shouldn't be hidden.

The women being hired for TV "news" are, as bleusblue stated: young, traditionally attractive and required to dress the way they are dressing. Don't delude yourselves into thinking it's simply about education or smarts or anything, but whether they are attractive enough to hold an audience. The standard is very different for men.

I'm reminded of a traffic gal on a local station several years back who seemed to have an endless supply of too tight, wild and crazy outfits. They had to let her go -- after she was arrested for shoplifting!

Not to belabor the point, but what about this: many female newscasters wear tight, sleeveless, and sometime short dresses. Why don't male newscasters wear tight, formfitting golf-type shirts? And maybe some slick, formfitting slacks, too?

THAT'S the issue here, to me anyway. I'm not offended by a female's bare shoulder. I just think we ought to see men's body parts too, to be perfectly fair.

Oh wait! Life's not fair.

From the age of 11 or or there-about I dressed to show off my assets for the male attention it got me. Like one above post said, I was well aware of the "power" my sexuality gave me. However even then I learned early on the difference between sexy and skanky. Learned a lot of from older male friends who talked openly in front of me about how they saw women. Also learned what women think is important to guys just ain't necessarily so. (this was the sixties)

As an adult I dressed for comfort. Still do. I do know a lot of older women who dress for each other. Among them are also a few who still think it's cute behavior to approach men aggressively with how "sexy' they are. Live and let live but I step away. I don't want to be thought of that way.

I have never been beautiful nor do I have a great shape, not even near, any longer. However in mixed groups I still attract the attention of men. Positive friendly attention, not grab my butt attention. I think it's because I do dress casually and comfortably for me unlike the rest of the social butterflies who are either dressing to impress others, whoever that might be.

However it would be a lie to say I/we never dress for others. Of course we do. It's called appropriate attire. For me it's not squeezing into thin tops that make me look like I am in a sausage casing in the name of fashion. I don't understand why so much women's fashion today makes their worst attributes stand out. I know we should all love our bodies but fat rolls are not an asset whether you are 13 or 75.

I occasionally still get mildly hit on which I find odd but hey I take no offense. Makes my day actually.

I guess I am old fashioned in one way. Covered arms are classier than bare. For formal attire either is good in my opinion. For weddings, for gawd's sake why strapless???? Go bare armed go low backed, go cleavage, if you must but leave the strapless for the Junior prom. LOL