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		<title>Huffington Post Just Fucking With Me Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.pukeimmediately.com/post/129659366">pukeimmediately</a>: And <em>Huffington Post</em>'s sexism spills to the business pages.</p>
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<p>Every single business reporter selected for<em> HuffPo</em>'s latest <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">parade of sexism</span> 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.</p>
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<p>* <strong>Where the dudes at?</strong><em> HuffPo</em> chose to only place women on its list. It must be because, as Pukeimmediately points out, men don't have to be attractive to be respected as reporters. And so, <strong>Eric Bolling</strong>'s camera-ready tan and <strong>Cody Willard</strong>'s glorious mane have gone un-dissected by the Internet sexy police:</p>
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<p>*<strong> Meow!</strong> Why not just put a few guys into the mix in order to create the facade of gender-equality? That would ruin the whole Fox vs. CNBC girl-on-girl cat-fight scenario <em>HuffPo</em> has constructed here. Throwing a Cody Willard may boost <em>HuffPo</em>'s progressive cred, but progressive cred can be a real boner shrinker.</p>
<p>* <strong>Experience bad.</strong><strong></strong> In the real world, the more years a reporter has slaved away at a beat, the more valued they are as a journalist. When <em>HuffPo </em>wonders if <strong>Maria Bartiromo </strong>has<strong> </strong>"lost some of her hotness to her younger colleagues," however, we see the limits of experience: it's valuable only until you're too old to be hot anymore.</p>
<p>* <strong>Boobs good! </strong>When it's not knocking FOX Business for low-ratings, <em>HuffPo </em>is commending it for its steady stream of "buxom women." (I wonder where they found that business model?) Some FOX business reporters are so good at their jobs, they actually have the power to make business viewers not give a shit about business. On <strong>Rebecca Diamond</strong>: "She recently conducted a well-researched interview about commercial real estate, but it was hard to pay attention. She was wearing a turquoise mini-dress with a deep V that nearly reached her belly button." In other words, women must be attractive in order to become journalists, but they still won't be respected in the field, because they are attractive.</p>
<p>* <strong>Newsflash: Pretty girl not dumb!</strong> HuffPo doesn't entirely ignore these female reporters' professional accomplishments&#8212;it just lists them as some sort of surprise twist to their hotness.  <strong> Tracy Byrnes </strong>is hot, and wrote a book! <strong>Melissa Francis</strong> is hot, and attended Harvard! <strong>Trish Regan</strong> is hot, and wrote about pot once! <strong>Jenna Lee</strong> is hot, and looks American! Okay, so <em>HuffPo </em>couldn't dig up a career accomplishment for <em>all </em>of these women.</p>
<p>*<strong> And while we're at it:</strong> We get it, <em>HuffPo: </em>"Hard-hitting" means more than just "serious journalism." It also means you guys have a boner. Using this double-entendre twice in this slide-show alone is more than enough.</p>
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		<title>This Week In Sexist History: Women&#8217;s Suffrage Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the Sexist, let's take a ride on journalism's way-back machine, to a time when men weren't helpless, girls were pretty enough not to need institutionalized power, and the Speaker of the House was a super-creep with a cigar fetish.
This Week [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the <em>Sexist</em>, let's take a ride on journalism's way-back machine, to a time when men weren't helpless, girls were pretty enough not to need institutionalized power, and the Speaker of the House was a super-creep with a cigar fetish.</p>
<p><strong>This Week In Sexist History:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/06/canon-1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4646" title="canon-1" src="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/06/canon-1.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="96" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Good Old Day:</strong> June 23, 1909<br />
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Dateline:</strong> Washington, D.C.<br />
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Keywords</strong>: <strong>Joseph Gurney Cannon</strong>; pretty girls; rolling a cigar reminisciently in one's mouth; smiling indulgently; women's suffrage.</p>
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<p><strong>Joseph Gurney Cannon</strong>, who <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon">ruled over the House of Representatives</a> from 1903 to 1911, is considered to be "the most dominant Speaker in United States history." After Canon's tenure ended, subsequent Speakers of the House were rendered increasingly helpless until an actual woman finally claimed the top Congressional spot, in 2007. See what happens?</p>
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<p>Girls so pretty.</p>
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<p>Pretty girls so pretty.</p>
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<p>Girls pretty! Unfair how pretty girls are!</p>
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<p>The women then waited ten more years before securing the right to vote.</p>
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