Peace with Kim

What is your point here? What’s your purpose?   Why are you posting selfies like this?   I am really getting bothered by all of the photos (many of them are selfies) that women are posting of themselves in skin tight to limited clothing. Their social media profile says “News Anchor” or even “Award Winning Journalist”   and they’re showing side boob, bare stomachs, full-on cleavage, pushing out their behind in a skin tight dress. And, the way they’re standing, squatting, laying or leaning. What is this!? I feel like if we women want to be taken seriously, we should take ourselves seriously.   Am I sounding like one of those ‘old’ ladies now?  

I just watched the latest Murphy Brown about sexual harassment at work and the #MeToo movement. It resonated. Murphy and Phyllis talked about ‘the way it was back then.’ Now, they may be older than me, but we’re still in the same era when there were more men in the newsroom than women. We wore our ‘IBM - style’ navy business suits with silk “LA Law’ high necked blouses, nylons and high heeled pumps. I suppose that can be considered sexy but I never felt sexy. I was trying to fit into a man’s world and earn respect for my work, not my legs.   There were things said, many times that I graciously smiled at and tried to quickly move on from.   One colleague, who was set up to be a mentor of mine, invited me up to his hotel room telling me it’s OK - he and his wife had an ‘open’ marriage. He said if we worked together he could get me in to the bigger market (my dream market) where he worked. He never touched me, though he sat uncomfortably close to me. I said no and l...