I've no idea to whom I am addressing this post as I cannot find your name on this page. However, may I just point out what a hypocrit you are! You scold another for referring to Balding as a "dyke on a bike", arguing that it is her journalistic skills which are of importance and that appearance and sexuality have no place there. Yet all you seem to be able to focus on with Dr Ramirez was the fact that she wore heels and make up! Granted even I would not have worn heels in a field but what difference does that make to the imformation with which she is providing you? What you seem to be implying is that she does not fit the traditional BBC historian mould because she doesn't wear flat shoes and a tweed jacket! You may in fact be interested to learn that, having had Dr Ramirez as a lecturer during my degree a couple of years ago, that how she appears on television is in fact how she dresses on a daily basis and I do not believe that she ought to change her appearance just so some viewers feel that they are getting the full academic understanding. 

And with reference to her subject knowledge, I am at liberty to inform you that she absolutely does "know her stuff" having had lecturers from her on this very subject. Not only is she incredably knowledgable, but she has an amazing ability to encorporate her passion for the subject and give lively, interesting and engaging lectures and she is in fact one of the main reasons that I myself am pursuing a career in post cumpolsary education.

So before you next time begin to chastise somebody for "dumbing down" a subject for the wider audience by "wearing stilettos" and going into a London jewellers, remember that she probably has little control over how the programme is produced and edited and that quite frankly, her footwear and appearance should have absolutely no bearing on the fact that she is a superb historian with a wealth of knowledge and that if she were a young man wearing jeans and a shirt with rolled up sleeves, this would not even be an issue. I suspect nobody would ask you to change the way you dress to fit a mould.