12/22/2023 0 Comments Waay 31 news anchor fired![]() Allen’s bralessness wasn’t unprofessional because it wasn’t even noticed, so how could it have made her colleagues or viewers uncomfortable? I’ve had co-workers in the past mention to me that they often go bra-free to work or on weekends and I was always surprised because I’d never even noticed it.Īt its core it’s a question of, “Are women’s bodies, faces and hair as they are when unadorned intrinsically unprofessional?” These sorts of corporate rules are just a way of forcing women to walk an extremely thin line between being conventionally feminine (wear skirts and dresses, not pants!) but without doing anything that could be construed as sexual (but don’t even allow a hint of nipple to be visible!) Basically if you can achieve a sexless Barbie doll femininity, then according to corporate work wear guidelines you’re doing it right. So is going to work without a bra unprofessional? This seems to me to be the sartorial equivalent of the ongoing discussion over whether going to work without make-up is not professional or if curly hair is a corporate no-no. (And just to be clear it’s not yet been confirmed by Allen’s employer, WAAY-TV in Alabama, as to what the exact reason for the dismissal was – Gawker has reported there were other issues during her employment, though on Twitter Allen stated she had been “ ‘terminated without cause’ for said post”.) This one admission means she’ll probably be nicknamed ‘The Braless Reporter’ for the rest of her days and has led to salacious media headlines like Glamorous TV reporter Shea Allen fired after posting ‘tell-all’ blog about going braless on air, TV reporter goes braless, gets fired, and Fired braless reporter Shea Allen: She was ‘a ticking time bomb’. In the post Allen listed a lot of rather disturbing revelations such as “I'm frightened of old people and I refuse to do stories involving them or the places they reside” and “If you ramble and I deem you unnecessary for my story, I'll stop recording but let you think otherwise”, but far and away the ‘confession’ that garnered the most column inches was “I've gone braless during a live broadcast and no one was the wiser”. When US local TV reporter, Shea Allen, posted on her personal blog an entry titled ‘ Confessions of a red-headed reporter’, she probably didn’t expect it would end with her unemployed and at the centre of a media firestorm.
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