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I do feel very sympathetic to the author of this article. It is indeed a pretty crass and stereotypical image to rely on - the female lawyer in vertiginous heels - but it shouldn't obviate the sense in the remainder of the article. The reference to a lawyer's gender is clearly relevant in an article about one gender or the other, so references to a 'female' lawyer shouldn't be seen as sexist. In the same way, an article about religion shouldn't be viewed as discriminatory or derogatory for referring to somebody as a Christian or a Jew, when without such reference, the article loses meaning. I imagine the author is feeling pretty upset now reading all of these comments, but I don't think she should: she wrote a valuable article, albeit with dubious judgement on the reference to shoes. We live and learn.

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