What you wear is another way of speaking. While we can't make other people feel/ think things (they have to do that themselves), it seems we can aim at getting a certain kind of reaction, and what we wear is very much much a part of that. We can't force people into reacting a certain way but we can do things which we would hope might get a certain reaction. It is and must be that way. Otherwise, where is there room for self-expression?

No, I don't think we should be able to wear what we like and expect to be dealt with the same whether we're wearing a suit or a mankini. I think that's an unrealisic expectation. Make your choices and handle the consequences.

(re Louise.. "PS: Women should be allowed to wear what they like, without some men insisting that their own, sexual reactions make that appearance one of objectification. )

You should all grow up, the lot of you. How absurd to say that having boobs and intelligence somehow goes against the grain. Do you think you are the only woman in the history of time who had a brain? Or the only attractive one with a brain? Please!

As for the implication that "Tab Totty" is stirring up a progressive debate, I've never come across such a load of more obviously self-congratulatory rubbish.

I visited this article after reading the Guardian critique; this kind of codswallop shows you all up to be nothing more than a gaggle of vacuous idiots.

This is chauvinism masquerading as 'intelligent comment', except it's done in a painfully cringeworthy manner.

Further, what a terrible quality photograph. Awful lighting. Total amateur job. Goes well with the article.

You and others like you are in receipt of what are arguably the best educational opportunities in the country. In business, in science, in religion, in society, what we need to hear from our brightest minds are solutions. Workable ideas, steps forward to progressively eradicate inequality. To my mind, you are confirming the presence of an existing disease (for which you should be thanked! x) rather than proposing how to make changes to our society which would inexorably starve sexism of the oxygen it needs to survive. Identify the oxygen and you identify a potential method of suffocation. I wasn't bright enough to get into Oxford or Cambridge, nor was I switched on enough in my late teens to make the right decisions with regard to what I did next. Experience in the following decades, however, tells me that people such as yourself need to find solutions, and we as a general populous need to take heed and help implement changes, or the sexism of which you speak in such a charged manner is going to persist into the 22nd Century. I believe most people would rather see sexism die like the dinosaur it always was.