Likewise, earlier this year actress Ashley Judd published a long, biting reaction to media comments about her appearance, in which she condemned the societal objectificationofwomen.
And whether women are even emotionally capable of that objectification (Flanagan thinks Owen was not, and dissects the emotional undertones in the PowerPoint to try to prove this).
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 ofthe ongoing issues of ageist and sexist discrimination faced by women in relation to their appearance.