The more power and status a woman has, the more extreme/degrading level of femininity she must adopt

That’s the reason why women shouldn’t marry down. If you marry a man with less power or status than you he’ll objectify you even harder than he would a woman who was his equal.

Is that why Billie Eilish was fucking HAAAAAATED whenever she was wearing t-shirts?

I did exactly this and was like "THAT'S WHAT IT IS!!" Could not put my finger on this phenomenon for so long thank you so much!

I mean, the truly A-list female celebrities have enough social capital they are able to dress how they want if they want to make that statement/not pander to the male gaze. I wouldn't say anyone sitting on more than XX million is "forced" to do anything. Make good music/movies/whatever and your true fans will follow you and you can continue to enjoy your craft. You're not gonna go broke.

Female athletes in most sports I've seen wear clothes that make sense for the sport. Like there's always gonna be Reddit pages with pictures of female soccer players' butts, but that's not because their athletic shorts are specifically designed for that.

For the stuff like volleyball where it's super skimpy, again if the top players got together and demanded change I'm not convinced they couldn't do that. Together they have a lot of social capital. Though I might be wrong on this since I don't follow sports that much.

But in a general sense this quote is really glossing over the power that female multimillionaires do have.

Like if you look at Arianna Grande, clearly she is richer than she'd otherwise be because of her DDlg style. But that's a choice she's making at this point. She could be very rich and choose differently, but she chooses to be super rich and dress sexy. It's the same incentives as Republican women choosing to try to be "the top of the bottom (female) class" just in a different context.

Remember that black female celebrity that faced insane backlash for saying she wouldn't date a bus driver? That is the perfect example of this