"It makes me very angry when someone tells me, 'She probably hit the gas pedal instead, ' because I think it's a sexist comment, an ageist comment, " she said.
While I'm delighted that Mary Beard is comfortable in her body, to conclude from that that battles around female objectification and sexual commodification have been won betrays a serious ignorance of the ongoing issues of ageist and sexist discrimination faced by women in relation to their appearance.