Marginal note
Susanna Reid of BBC’s Breakfast said recently: “People seem to be shocked that women have breasts.”
Not so, but while not objecting to such décolletage distraction from our morning muesli, some of us mere men do wonder at the alacrity with which many women need to prove their womanhood and are then surprised or even complain at our appreciation.
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Hide AdNo-one forced her to reveal so much cleavage and thigh on TV, or Princess Mary of Denmark recently ogled by the Finnish president’s husband at a state banquet, or Katherine Jenkins at Epsom last week who came within millimetres of a wardrobe malfunction! Most males do not dress like ballet or Strictly dancers; why females?
John Birkett
Horseleys Park
St Andrews
Fife