"And then Earhardt coyly continues, "Would you like us to wear pants, Brian?" "No, no!" Brian exclaims. (She does have great legs, I admit.) "It's very hard to please Brian," a second female anchor jokes. And then Brian, who sounds like a great guy, announces, "If I were to run for office, I would run on a pro-skirt platform. I am firmly behind the skirts." Another male anchor adds, "You're firmly behind the skirts? Is that what you just said?"

At this point, the second female anchor interjects, a bit sternly, "I think you should stop now."

Uhhhh...yeah.

What's interesting here is that Earhardt said not "we don't wear pants," but "we don't wear the pants." It would have made sense for Earhardt to say "we are feminine, (ergo) we don't wear pants," which of course would not have been actually true but would have been stereotypically true insofar as the Western construct of feminine appearance. But Earhardt says, "here at Fox we like to be feminine, so we don't wear the pants." A

Oh Good Grief! This story reminds me of growing up in my local junior high school. As unbelievable as it sounds girls had to wear dresses to school as part of the dress code (although I can remember wearing a garter belt which was really sexy even though I wasn't trying to be sexy). The school voted to let the girls wear pants to school. The boys were livid!!!! The first day of school all the boys blocked the bus door and let the girls who were wearing dresses off the bus first. Our first male protest and WOW it was so important! I think some of those guys may have grown up to make policy regulations at FOX .