When you have a man and woman running for the same political position, what's the first thing reporters focus on? With the man, it's what he says. With the woman, it's what she wears.
I'm aware of that, I wasn't trying to suggest there wasn't a difference in how people talk about women's appearances vs. men's appearances, my point was more "if they were overly focused on a male politician's clothing as opposed to what he says like they are with women, or just being overly critical of his appearance rather than his personality, that would also be bad"