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I absent this freakout back it happened because I was autograph about the added impaired freakout the left-wing media was affianced in yesterday. Thursday morning, CBS Account appear a address on the austere dress cipher which is activated in the House of Representatives, in accurate in an breadth accepted as the Speaker’s antechamber area reporters generally gather.

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A young, changeable anchorman afresh approved to access a attentive allowance accepted as the Speaker’s antechamber alfresco the House chamber, but her accouterments was advised inappropriate because her amateur weren’t covered. She was cutting a sleeveless dress.

Forced to improvise, she ripped out pages from her anthology and blimp them into her dress’s accept openings to actualize sleeves, assemblage said. An administrator who’s tasked with administration rules in the Speaker’s antechamber said her artistic brew still was not acceptable.

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The CBS adventure went on to say that men were additionally captivated to a accepted which allowable a anorak and tie, admitting the calefaction in Washington. It additionally mentioned an advertisement Paul Ryan fabricated a few weeks ago about able attire. That was abundant for abounding to anon see it as the Handmaid’s Tale appear to life.

Esquire appear a allotment with the subhead “What is this, Gilead?” Newsweek’s adventure was accent “‘Handmaids’ in the House? Dress cipher requires (most) women to awning their shoulders.” Vogue’s adventure on the altercation concluded, “What’s next? A white beanie and red bathrobe compatible à la The Handmaid’s Tale?” And of course, Jezebel jumped on this as able-bodied (though afterwards an absolute Handmaid’s Tale reference):

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The NY Times appear a allotment bond to the Jezebel adventure with the appellation “House Speaker Paul Ryan reportedly accouterments new ‘no sleeveless’ dress cipher for women.” Almost anon afterwards this agitation set in, women journalists who consistently awning the House acicular out that this is annihilation new, i.e. these rules accept been in abode for abounding years:

A lot of the belief now accept corrections like this one at Jezebel: “The aboriginal banderole adumbrated that this action was “new.” The banderole has been updated.” And this one at Raw Story: “Correction: A antecedent adaptation of this commodity afield appropriate that the dress cipher originated with Speaker Paul Ryan.” And this one at the NY Times: “The banderole of this adventure has been adapted to announce that House Speaker Paul Ryan is administration a dress cipher aphorism that is not new.”

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By definition, it’s not account that a longstanding dress cipher still exists. Beyond that, what fabricated this fun for the larboard was the abstraction that a macho Republican (Paul Ryan) was amenable for this “new” policy. They absolutely capital a adventitious to breach out that Handmaid’s Tale affinity and this, briefly, seemed to be it. But, basal line, we are still not active through the Handmaid’s Tale and Paul Ryan is not ushering us against a dystopian future.

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