Recently, students at the University of California Irvine got a mass email instructing them how to prepare for a job interview.
The email came with two photographs to help illustrate their points --
first, this incredibly detailed and specific diagram to help female
students be as attractive as possible:
The before/after picture of the woman was lifted from the model's
personal blog, where she posted it in response to a very specific
question about the importance of wearing fitted clothes and heeled shoes
if you are short or petite. It wasn't meant as a catch-all piece of
advice for acing a job interview, and it was based solely on the
personal experiences of a single person. The school hijacked her photo
and used it to suggest that women need to be as dolled up as possible in
order to get any kind of job, whereas men either don't need to be told
what to wear or can just stumble into their interview wearing a winning
smile and a shroud of divine fog.
