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.
It is a simple formula for both comedy and political commentary:
Take a public figure (Sarah Palin) who holds disagreeable views (abstinence-only education). Zero in on an aspect of her personal life counter to those views (her own teen daughter, Bristol Palin, becoming pregnant). Reveal the comedic irony and/or hypocrisy of the public/private contrast. Repeat ad [...]
The Huffington Post's Shannyn Moore has created this clever top-10 list of the worst sex jokes hurled at Sarah Palin and her daughters since last year's presidential campaign. The list, which includes jokes made by Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, and Craig Ferguson, is hard to stomach. The A Rod thing is not the first [...]
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 [...]
Sociological Images accuses Facebook of sexism and ethnocentricsm for using a "white and male" image as its default avatar to represent a typical user, while opting for "orange avatars of both sexes" to represent its "global connection" capabilities.
So why does this shadowy male figure look just like me?
Loud, black, and in need of a makeover? You could be on television!
A new reality television show pilot will be filming in the District next week. Casting director seeks locals willing to fulfill standard network television stereotype of a black woman. Successful applicants will be rewarded with the ultimate fantasy of all stereotypical women on [...]
Via Feministing comes news of the new "True Fantasy Football" league, a professional football organization that is currently recruiting sexy-yet-sturdy ladies to suit up in mouth-guards and panties in the "Lingerie Football League." The league is comprised of ten teams across the country, with names like the "Seattle Mist" to the "Miami Caliente."
From tipster Mike Licht at Notions Capital comes this sexist Google correction:
My God. What could it all mean?
. . . which means a not-so-average day for the Sexist. You can read my posts today over on City Desk, where I'll be chronicalling today's goings-on in D.C. intimate relations under "Average Sex."
* The city of South El Monte, California, has imposed a nightly curfew of 11 p.m. for its mayor, Blanca M. Figueroa, the New York Times reports. Figueroa had a habit of burning the midnight oil in her office, often staying late to help citizens with "home foreclosure problems, layoffs and even buying groceries." How [...]
