French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévi is back to explain why Roman Polanski ought to be released from prison already. Add this one to the long list of Polanski defenses: Polanski is a human!

Lévi writes for the Huffington Post:

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At first, the Huffington Post was content to objectify women whose décolletage, nipples, and other breast parts are a main fixture of their work—actresses, models, and reality television stars. Then, it moved on to objectifying female news anchors. With its cache of famous people with boobs running low, the Huffington Post has recently expanded the category of women it’s willing to exploit. This time, it’s chosen women married to baseball players. Or as I like to call them, “normal people whose bodies are none of your business!”

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The Huffington Post’s latest foray into celebrity eye-candy linkbait, “Iconic Swimsuit Movie Moments,” comes in two flavors: Male and Female.

The Huffington Post, it seems, has tired of just fetishizing female bodies, and has moved onto more equal-opportunity objectification. Since it’s too much to ask for a Web site to refrain from objectifying any humans, is this a cause for celebration?

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The human nipple is a strange beast. Depending on the context, this “small projection of skin containing the outlets for 15-20 lactiferous ducts arranged cylindrically around the tip” has been marketed as alternately sexy, obscene, artistic, disgusting, and even sexier.

But as a consumer of nipple shots, such versatility can become confusing. It’s often difficult to know the socially acceptable reaction to every stray projection of skin that catches your eye. Should you high-five your buddy or vomit discreetly into your hands? I’m here to help.

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Yesterday, DoubleX tweeted the following teaser to a story on Sarah Palin’s recent profile in “Runner’s World”:

“Sarah Palin, in spandex, discusses her ‘throbbing thighs,’” is the classic ladymag linkbait-and-switch:

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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:

Pictured: Not Megan Fox’s boobs

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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.

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Hey, this isn’t the exploitation I signed up for!

The Huffington Post has finally discovered the porthole through which its sexist entertainment content can jump off of the Entertainment page and onto more explicitly political verticals. What is this valuable new discovery which suddenly makes sexy naked women so politically relevant? It starts with a P, ends with an Eople For the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and it has been pulling this liberal sexist bullshit for years.

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I missed this segment last week, when the Daily Show skewered Fox News for making a stink about Sasha Baron Cohen’s bare-ass Bruno stunt on MTV, and then staging a lingerie football party full of female T&A. It turns out you don’t have to be a liberal to support nudity from females while shunning the same from males. Bruno landing has bare ass on a noted homophobe makes sense. Fox News’ scantily clad football players landing their assets on sexists doesn’t pack the same kind of societal-commentary punch.

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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