From Mary Mulvihill
It’s not just lab coats that are only designed for the boys
(16 June, p 53).
Jeans, too, if the illustrations accompanying your feature on an intelligent
aeronautical/flying suit are anything to go by
(2 June, p 30).
He gets to wear his jeans; she has to go naked.
Naively, I had thought the days of using naked women to advertise things
(motor cars, features in science magazines) were gone. So very 20th century.
Â鶹´«Ã½ went through a spate of them in the late
1990s—even, if memory serves me right, using naked women
to illustrate an article on subatomic particles. Now it seems they’re back.
Even an ill-fitting lab coat would be better than this.
Dublin
