It's pretty clearly meant to be tongue-in-cheek. In "researching" power vests she wore a L.L.Bean fleece vest from 1995, I wouldn't exactly call it overly subtl

It's pretty clearly meant to be tongue-in-cheek. In "researching" power vests she wore a L.L.Bean fleece vest from 1995, I wouldn't exactly call it overly subtle. Maybe a bit of introspection about why you found the writing upsetting instead of funny is in order?