Lively Blake

Just saw a story about Blake Lively who, while attending Variety‘s New York Power of Women Luncheon on Friday, was asked a question about the green jumpsuit she was wearing. Lively was there as an honoree because of her advocacy against child pornography, so it is understandable that she deemed such a question inappropriate and responded, "“Are we really doing this? Would you ask a man that?"

I think it is great that Lively is using her power to fight against one of the world's great evils, and I definitely admire her for doing that.

But here's the thing: 

Would a man wear something parallel in nature to this if he were being honored for his work against child pornography?

I am 100% in for treating women as equals, for respecting women, for not differentiating between genders (or, for that matter, "genders") etcetera etcetera etcetera. But you know . . . I see the same thing on the news every day. Women on the news who wear outfits that accentuate their sexuality. And that is more than fine with me: I love cleavage, bare arms, midriffs, whatever. That's why I tune in to OnAN, after all. But you can't have it both ways. If you put yourself out there in a way that accentuates your sexuality, then you should expect people to focus on that. And the truth is that male newscasters don't do that. (Though it might be interesting if they did.) And men accepting awards do not dress in suits which emphasize their décolletage.

Just sayin', sir.