The story is actually about the media’s salacious appetite for PC controversy.
The internal PR correspondence that discusses the best approach is a reasonable debate. That it was had between women furthers the appropriateness of the very business discussion. The media pressing that there are suggestive implications associated with having women (pretty or ugly) in advertising for a male dominated industry (military) is what is ludicrous.
Ice is cold.
#24 - Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.