".....Did it ever cross your mind that the ongoing trend of making fashion sexier and heels higher and women thinner was a social-political response to emancipated women entering the work force on a larger scale in the 1980s?...."

LMAO!  Not from my view on the Skytrain this morning.  Nothing remotely resembling that description in probably most of the 10 years in this city.  Somebody is  generalizing to make a point.  And not very well, I might add.