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The Washington Post took some heat on social media this week after promoting a column about Erika Kirk\u2019s<\/a> wardrobe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Washington Post published a Jan. 8 piece headlined, “Erika Kirk is walking a fine line in a glittering pantsuit,” which put a spotlight on wardrobe decisions the Turning Point USA CEO has made since her late husband, Charlie Kirk<\/a>, was assassinated last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Kirk, a mother to two toddlers, continues to take on public-facing leadership duties while promoting traditional ideas about prioritizing marriage and motherhood, and her clothes are attempting to walk the same high wire\u2026 her styling of late suggests that she\u2019s aware that she now needs to be able to blend into mainstream, secular, political\u00a0contexts well enough to be taken seriously \u2014 but not so well as to be mistaken for a career woman or a feminist,” Washington Post fashion writer Ashley Fetters Maloy wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ERIKA KIRK OPENS UP ABOUT GRIEF AND FAITH AT CHRISTMAS: \u2018LIFE IS DIFFERENT NOW\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The column, which went on to detail specific outfits recently worn by Kirk, irked many when it was shared on X by the newspaper on Jan. 10. Many appeared to take issue with the wording of the social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Column: Erika Kirk, a mother to two toddlers, continues to take on public-facing leadership duties while promoting traditional ideas about prioritizing marriage and motherhood. Here\u2019s how her clothes are attempting to walk the same line,” the Washington Post wrote on X in a post that was widely criticized.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema wrote, “For crying out loud will this s— never end.”<\/p>\n

“Erika isn\u2019t \u2018prioritizing marriage\u2019 because a radical leftist shot and killed her husband Good Lord. These people will never stop attacking the Kirk family,” longtime Kirk family friend Jack Posobiec wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’ve been reporting for a quarter century now, and I still remember at my first daily newspaper job, we had to read a style guide that specifically cautioned reporters to be very careful about describing women’s clothes in depth because it can be viewed as sexist,” Axios reporter Marc Caputo responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pundit Jason Rantz asked, “How does this get printed?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

ERIKA KIRK REFLECTS ON LIFE, LOSS AND FAITH IN FIRST TV INTERVIEW SINCE CHARLIE KIRK\u2019S DEATH<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Conservateur founder Jayme Franklin added: “The left will lament how difficult it is to be a woman in America by claiming that we\u2019re unfairly judged for our appearance and demeanor. Yet, in reality, the only women who are routinely subjected to that exact kind of scrutiny, are conservative women, who are met with the most vicious and antiquated attacks imaginable from the very people who profess to champion women\u2019s empowerment.”<\/p>\n

Many others took to social media<\/a> with thoughts on the piece:<\/p>\n

\u2018WE ARE NOT AFRAID\u2019: ERIKA KIRK VOWS TPUSA WILL CONTINUE CAMPUS DEBATES NATIONWIDE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Erika Kirk was named the CEO<\/u><\/a> of TPUSA after her husband’s death.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-takes-heat-putting-spotlight-erika-kirks-wardrobe-wake-husbands-assassination <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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