Add Stephanie Ruhle to the MSNBC women who do not understand a professional attire

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171. I see what you did there. Here's the thing that you're trying to sidestep... lo these many days.

Ruhle might be a private citizen, but she's a woman who has a highly visible professional job in a respected career that is dominated by men and constantly being dragged down by the giggling nitwits in cocktail dresses that predominate Fox News.

Women have struggled for years to make it in that business and be recognized as consummate, journalistic professionals on the same par as their male counterparts. And it is notable than men don't show up on air in muscle shirts or tank tops for the same reason that the vast majority of women news anchors don't go on camera in party dresses. Most of us don't have that option in our own professional jobs because there would be consequences, so why would anyone accept lowering the bar simply for something like gender specific fashions?