Sexism: It’s not a game played only by guys; we’re just WAY better at it. You may have come a long ways, baby, what with Title IX and all…but there’s still a segment of the male population that views you primarily as objects designed for their sexual gratification. Most of those guys are we in the trade call “sports bloggers,” which would explain why Bleacher Report would see fit to print something so insanely, blatantly sexist as a piece on the “100 Hottest Female Olympians of 2012.”
It would be easy to dismiss Thomas Delatte as just another garden variety misosgynist…but he’s a misogynist with an online platform, because the trolls who run Bleacher Report know that the crap he writes generates traffic and bring in advertising dollars.
Stay classy, y’all!!
Starbucks creates eight jobs!! I’ll alert the media!! Don’t get me wrong; I know that more jobs are always better. Still, Starbucks’ misguided “Create Jobs for USA” program doesn’t do nearly what it could with the money it takes in. So, they contributed to the maintenance and creation of 12 jobs at a factory in Ohio. Good on them. That said, why is Starbucks not donating the money directly to causes they feel are worthy? Why are they using a middle man and thus increasing their overhead and decreasing the effectiveness and credibility of their efforts?
Why can’t the Media accentuate the positive? Why all these stories about the poor, the sick, and the long-term unemployed? That’s SUCH a downer…. We should probably be grateful to Wisconsin GOP Senate Candidate Eric Hovde for having the “courage” to point out the single biggest reason the Great Recession continues unabated. Honestly, it’s the Media’s fault; without all these stories focusing on the poors and the plight of the downtrodden, it would feel like Morning in America © again.
‘Course, it would actually be Morning in America © …but, to paraphrase former First Lady Barbara Bush, why should we have to bother our beautiful minds with thoughts of the shiftless, the unmotivated, and those not smart enough or wealthy enough to be able to buy themselves a few Republican Congressmen??
What better way to show a woman how much you respect her than by referring to her by her genitalia? Maybe it’s something in the water in Michigan; whatever it is seems to be impacting Republicans particularly hard. Jeebus, they’re coopting democracy, they’re denying female legislators the right to speak…and now they’re screaming at women.
Here’s a pro tip for those of y’all seeking to impressive up your womenfolk just how much you respect them: try not to scream at them while addressing them by their genitalia. That’s right; try to avoid using the word that starts with “c,” rhymes with “bunt,” and has nothing to do with baseball.
You can thank me later.
If you’re stupid enough to fall for this, you probably deserve to be fleeced, knowhutimean?? It turns out that the reason Nigerian email scams sound so incredibly implausible is that the people who create them do it deliberately to ensure that those who respond are the truly, unbelievably gullible and stoopid. That way, they don’t have to waste their time with those who aren’t seriously stupid and might come to their senses before they wire all their money off to some “Nigerian prince.”
Because you just know there’s no way a Black man could become President honestly. Birtherism has shown itself to be a tired collection of brain-dead zealots immune to truth, logic, and reason…but that doesn’t stop them from pursuing their conviction that a Black man in the White House is an abomination. AZ Secretary of State Ken Bennett is now claiming that Barack Obama lied about his Kenyan birthplace in order to get into college and that he’s paid between $1.5-$2 million to have his records sealed. Of course, Bennett has offered no proof to buttress his claim, but who needs truth when THERE’S A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
