Posts Tagged ‘arianna huffington’
Is Michael Jackson the New Nipple?
The Huffington Post entertainment page has been conspicuously absent of female nipples lately. I think we’ve finally found the kryptonite to HuffPo’s entertainment page sexism: The biggest, weirdest star in the world suddenly dropping dead.
Observe:
Huffington Post Just Fucking With Me Now
Via pukeimmediately: And Huffington Post’s sexism spills to the business pages.
Every single business reporter selected for HuffPo’s latest parade of sexism interactive slideshow is a woman. While I love to see women succeeding in business, this particular feature isn’t exactly what I had in mind. Let’s take a look.
Huffington Post: Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Nipple Is Just Sexist
Last week, I suggested that the Huffington Post was sexist for devoting much of its Entertainment page to obsessively posting accidental female nipple slips caught on camera. Arianna Huffington responded via a Howard Kurtz column by saying:
“As Freud said, ‘Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar’—and a nipple slip is just a nipple slip.”
Well, I’ve been mulling over Huffington’s retort for about 24 hours now, and I’ve finally figured out what is so fucking strange about this response. Let’s start with Freud.
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Huffington Post Responds to Nipple Sexism Charges
In Howard Kurtz‘ column today, Arianna Huffington responded to this blog’s charges of sexism over the Huffington Post’s obsessive nipple-slip coverage. Kurtz’s column was published a full week after the City Paper contacted HuffPo on the nipple issue.
Huffington Post’s Vice President for Communications, Mario Ruiz, responded to my inquiry by copy-pasting Kurtz’ column into an e-mail, adding: “There’s nothing much we can add to what she already emailed Howie.”
Huffington to Kurtz:
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Sexist Comments of the Week
My beef with HuffPo’s nipple slip coverage, Huffington Post: Liberal Politics, Sexist Entertainment, inspired a range of responses this week. One commenter was peeved that I appear to “take no joy” in my work—an assertion that I roundly deny. Another sees rogue nipples throughout HuffPo’s political coverage, as well: “They couldn’t find Hillary’s nipple, but they got as close as they could.” And the Huffington Post chimed in, too—though not about the nipple thing.
The best of the rest are after the jump.
