While adherence to the set dress code is reasonable to expect, the code itself seems hypocritical and wrong.

I have a shoulder tattoo so if I wear something sleeveless or tank top-ish, it tends to show. At work, I wear a cardigan and take it off as soon as I get to my vehicle on hot days. It wouldn’t have been hard for the reporter in this story to wear a cardigan and then take it off when she could.

But then, I tired of whining and racism and whatnot no matter where it’s coming from. Can’t we all just grow up and get along?

Afraid I was thinking of General Joe Stilwell, but I imagine he didn’t create the phrase… 🙂

Never heard of Patricia Brigg

Are you quoting Anna from Patricia Briggs’s Alpha and Omega books? 🙂

I love your article, Suzanne, because you write about what actually happened, and are not taking this story as an opportunity to demonstrate whose side you are on, regardless of the facts.

Illegitimi non carborundum !

Even if it were true, it would not be sexist. it actually also happens to not be true. I don’t know if it was this reporter or another one, but I read an short interview with one reported who came up on this in the last few days and she explicitly said that this was not some sort of attempt to keep reporters out – in fact someone offered to go get a cardigan for her. She declined because it she didn’t really need to be in the chamber – she was headed elsewhere in the building where the code doesn’t apply.

I agree with you on virtually all of those issues (and I’m a fairly feminist woman in liberal northern California who went to a very liberal women’s college).