Letter: Suspect use of schoolgirl's photograph
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Your support makes all the difference.GIVEN that Thomasina Miers is only mentioned once, and briefly, in the text of 'From smart young gel to power-pupil' (6 September), your large-scale reproduction of her portrait is irrelevant, and suspect in its implications. It can only be assumed that this image of a schoolgirl wearing a low- cut dress was employed for its erotic appeal.
Thomasina may well disagree, but I find this sexualisation of very young women disturbing, and the use of such an image in this context to be irresponsible.
Rachel Ballantyne
Sidcup, Kent
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