Radio 4 host accused of mansplaining fashion, body image, to former Vogue editor

Quick, think of a way that you'd like your body to be described. Was it "cosy and comfortably shaped"?

Perhaps you'd rather your body not be described at all?

In any case, this is what BBC Radio 4 host John Humphrys has decreed to be an ideal sort in his strangely combative interview with former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman on the Today programme.

In what was intended to be a far-ranging chat on the fashion industry and how it has changed, it quickly became – as Twitter noted – a case of Humphrys "mansplaining" to the veteran editor how fashion was "cruel" to women and how it dictated ideals to women (perhaps in rather the same way that an older man is dictating how a young women should be shaped, yes?).