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This thread occasioned by Charles P. Pierce's Grantland piece today (well worth reading,
funny and strident) regarding a recently enacted dress code for reporters of Major League Baseball.
This 'graf, about ten paragraphs into the essay, sums up much:
The Stupidity (and Sexism) of Baseball's Media Dress Codes (grantland.com)
It's not about looking nice. It's about control.
Dress codes: yea or nay?
funny and strident) regarding a recently enacted dress code for reporters of Major League Baseball.
This 'graf, about ten paragraphs into the essay, sums up much:
And then....You know who dressed really well? I mean, they dressed sharp and fine and in as professional a manner as it was possible to dress? All those people who stole the entire world economy between 2000 and 2008, that's who. Anyone who presumes to judge sportswriters' character or professionalism based on whatever Vietnamese-sweatshop-produced clothing their shrinking salaries allow them to be wearing that day is a half-wit. Anybody who codifies that thinking into policy really needs a cold shower.
Which of course makes the rest of the thing a must-read, atThen there's the woman thing, which I suspect is what this is really all about.
The Stupidity (and Sexism) of Baseball's Media Dress Codes (grantland.com)
It's not about looking nice. It's about control.
Dress codes: yea or nay?