Posted on 05/02/2017 12:23:46 PM PDT by drewh
We need to talk about Fox News Channel’s female hosts and their relationship with pants.
Well, people have been talking about it for years, but in the last few weeks, there’s been less talk and more action on the part of the on-air talent themselves. Every time pants appear on a woman on Fox, the tweets start coming and our “tips” inbox fills up with viewers curious to know if the ousting of Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly and the resignation of Bill Shine have ushered in a new era at Fox News.
To answer that, we need to look back at past statements on the matter.
A few years ago, long before she filed the sexual harassment suit that brought down Ailes, Gretchen Carlson accidentally made a crack on a radio show about not being able to wear pants while hosting Fox & Friends. Her statements were followed up recently by what seemed to be a confirmation from Jedediah Bila, who absconded from Fox to cohost ABC’s The View last year. Bila said that she “wasn’t given a pants option” in her time at the cable news channel.
Add to those claims the talk of a designated “leg cam” meant to highlight the stems of whatever woman was selected to sit on the end during a panel show and the disgusting websites and YouTube channels set up explicitly to post about female hosts’ legs and you have quite the stunning portrait of how things were rumored to work at the network.
What we’re saying is this: observers have long questioned the network’s stance on pants.
All of that being said, we’re reasonably sure that a hard pants ban was never uniformly enforced across the network and there have been reports that the policy doesn’t exist. We’ve also definitely seen instances of Maria Bartiromo and Ainsley Earhardt wearing pants and jumpsuits over the past few years. Three female hosts even told us specifically last summer — at the height of all the Ailes drama — that they could wear pants if they wanted to. They insisted they just preferred dresses!
All we really know is that hosts like Jenna Lee and Sandra Smith have appeared in clothing other than dresses in recent weeks and we’re not alone in noticing.
Any pants revolution, however, may soon be coming to a halt. The heretofore ridiculously reliable Gabe Sherman tweeted that the woman who was appointed President of Programming after Shine resigned yesterday, Suzanne Scott, reportedly used to enforce the alleged no-pants rule.
A Fox News spokesperson says there is no such policy. They’ve been saying that for a long time, but that has yet to stop the incessant rumors.
I wonder when Shep Smith will demand assless chaps.
What would you have said about global warming?
Meet the new boss,(Suzanne Scott) same as the old boss (Bill Shine).
Allegedly, Sue was from the original Fox group of executives.
She is said to have enabled Ailes and others to get away with their dirty deeds. Sue also enforced the “Skirt Laws” all on-air women at Fox used to be forced to submit to. Not the worst thing in the world to enforce, if you ask me.
Corporations are allowed to have a ‘Corporate Look’.
Apple and Facebook have (mostly unwritten) Corporate Looks, although it’s not cool to admit to it.
Not a very pretty thought, or sight! LOL!
def dress code for Sheppie!
... Actually, I only view Fox News for the articles.
Is Shep wearing a skirt?
Will be tough to win over the Muslims, too.
Lock me in a boxcar with Heather Childress and Patti Ann Browne! Please!
Trish Regan had the end chair on Outnumbered recently and her legs were/are better than Kimberly’s. But that’s just MHO. I’m a girl so probably not the best judge.
Sandra Smith was a bikini model back in her LSU days.
“when Shep Smith will demand assless chaps.”
Please, I was trying to eat...
Uuhhmm, I don’t see any bikini there. Not that I’m complaining mind you. Pretty smile.
“Will be tough to win over the Muslims, too.”
I’ve been calling them moslems after reading why they became “muslims”:
“Journalists switched to Muslim from Moslem in recent years under pressure from Islamic groups.”
“A Muslim in Arabic means”one who gives himself to God,” and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means”one who is evil and unjust” when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.”
Source: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524
A young, female, progressive I know always wears dresses or skirt suits to work (unless it’s bitter cold outside, in which case she appears to wear leggings). For some it really is just a choice.
Thighs and cleavage are what wake me up at 5:AM with FOX Business, not coffee. Laura and Nicole hubba hubba.
maybe its a generational thing, I just cant understand why Malia Obama and her millenial ilk always want to go WAY above the thigh.. even with leggings its just unprofessional and icky
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