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It sounds more like the suits were more masculine feeling to Albright than the professor clothes. #madeleinealbright
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I went to Georgetown (where Albright taught) and there were a lot of bad dressers on the faculty. It wasn't so much that the women dressed too staid, but just a lot of ill-fitting stuff and specious "matching" of things in the same color that didn't really go. Professors aren't really trying to project power and confidence in the way that a diplomat needs to.
I am currently a sportswriter, and I would still say they dress better than academics. Believe me, that is a damning criticism.
Unrelated: I generally regard the Secret Service agent stationed outside Albright's house during the Clinton years as the One Who Got Away. We'd make eye contact and say hi everyone morning and once I turned around and peeked back and he was totally watching me walk away! Le sigh. #madeleinealbright
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It doesn't give me much hope for my ability to convince my graduate students not to worry about trying to afford a special teaching wardrobe on their meager stipends when even women as kick-ass as Albright have to get a new wardrobe as part of her job description. I know, I know, all people in the national spotlight have to be presentable and blah, blah fishcakes, but most instructors don't have that kind of money and really, the quantity of fretting that goes into dressing intellectual women is a huge emotional suck. I'm a hypocrite, and I do it to myself. I spent eight years getting an MA and a PhD, and what do I usually spend the night before my first classes fretting about: the syllabus? my lecture? whether I'm up on the latest research? Nope, whether I'll look professional enough in whatever outfit I've picked out. And what does it get me? At best a comment on an evaluation that I have cute skirts. Thanks? #madeleinealbright
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Actually, I'm now pretty convinced that this is a generational thing. If someone describes "dressing like a professor," I think of a woman in a black skirt suit with knee-high boots. The outfit is professional, but the boots make it just a little off from what would pass in the corporate or political world. Well, pre-Sarah Palin, that is. She wears knee-high boots. Dear God, I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin dresses like my idea of what it means to dress "like a professor." I'm going off now to throw out my boots. #madeleinealbright
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Just keep on truckin', Hillary. You are awesome.
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And I can name several commentators that ought to just be banned.
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I mean, I am the breadwinner in our little family and if someone (or if a bad translation made it seem like someone) implied that I should get hubby's opinion on my job - I.would.detonate.
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This is all just a mild replay of the anti-Hillary Clinton hysteria from last year. Crazy.
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This doesn't surprise me. He lambasted her well beyond the primaries last year. TDS is a bastion of self congratulatory sexist liberal dudebros.