Daily Inspiration Quote by Sarah Sutton

There is a very actorly pragmatism in Sutton's line: she can hold two truths at once without pretending they cancel each other out. "Good fun" lands first, deliberately casual, the language of a job you sometimes enjoy even when the job is a little ridiculous. Then she pivots: "it can be quite sexist". Not "was", not "is" in the absolute, but "can be" - a soft-edged admission that still points a finger at the machinery around her. The sexism isn't framed as a personal failing or even a singular villain; it's embedded in a production culture that treats women's bodies as adjustable dials for tone, ratings, and audience appetite.

The subtext sits in that final clause: "it doesn't worry me personally all that much". It's not denial; it's a boundary. Sutton is distinguishing between individual comfort and structural critique, refusing the familiar trap where a woman must either be harmed to be credible or unbothered to be complicit. By saying she wasn't personally distressed, she protects her agency. By still naming sexism, she refuses to let that agency be used as alibi for the system.

Context matters: in long-running genre TV, costumes often function as shorthand for maturity, glamour, or "edge", especially in later seasons trying to modernize their appeal. Sutton's comment reads like a veteran navigating that calculation: acknowledging the cheapness of the tactic, admitting it could be fun anyway, and insisting her selfhood is not the measurement of whether the tactic is sexist.