“I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.”
Gloria Steinem
I appreciate that Dolly Parton played no part in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people.
men will believe a woman is a slut with zero evidence, but they need a documentary, 12 witnesses, DNA, surveillance footage, and God’s signature to believe a man is a rapist.