She Looks Like She Could Take A Punch...

I guess a female writer can get away with a line like this, in an LA Times interview with Gretchen Mol, star of the upcoming "The Notorious Bettie Page":

Mol is, obviously, very pretty, with white, even teeth and skin of the sort you would imagine bruises easily.

A man would be fired for writing that, and it really doesn't look any better with a female author's pen. How "skin that bruises easily" is an obvious sign of attractiveness is beyond me. I've never seen that come up on a Cosmo survey. There are about a hundred better ways to say that, starting with "smooth, alabaster skin" and working your way down. "Skin of the sort you would imagine bruises easily" ranks just below "She has eyes that a sex offender would find compelling."

It's a little, unimportant point, but this is coming from the beloved traditional media with all of its fact-checkers and levels of editors. How'd that slip through?