SHEFALI writes from India:

A friend put up a picture of Venus and Serena Williams in sarees on Facebook. Poor woman, seemingly unaware of the PC police she commented how brawny and ugly they looked in the garment, far from feminine. A torrent of abuses was hurled at her from all quarters, from equating beauty with skin colour to bringing down women of colour. She even got blocked from Facebook temporarily because of complaints.

My friend told me tearfully that her criticism was not targeted at skin colour or external beauty but womanly grace and femininity that made these two steroid sisters stick our like sore thumbs in the sari. As women are becoming masculine, lack of refined femininity is something we are expected to ignore and criminal to observe.

Since when did it become okay for women to look like eunuchs?

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Hurricane Betsy writes:

When I read Shefali’s comments on grace and femininity, I right away thought of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, who even at age of 80 devotes herself to protection and rehabilitation of orphaned elephants, and other animals also, in Africa.

Far as I know, she never wears trousers.  Even when working with the animals.  I know that would strike you as  just right.

You gotta love that first photo of her having British-style tea in the middle of the African terrain!  What a gal!

James P. writes:

The photo reminds me of this.

(You will note my own comments from back in the day!)

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