Category: Stupidity

If newspapers referred to men the same way they do to women

I came across the following brilliant comment by londonsupergirl on a CiF piece about women’s magazines. I simply had to quote it in full:

What really has to come to a complete stop — in ‘serious’ journalism as well as ‘sleb trash’ — is referring to women by their age, hair colour and physique for no reason at all. This should not be allowed under any circumstance.
When was the last time you saw an article that referred to a man in such an objectified way? All these stories today about Mourinho leaving Chelsea, and yet none have dipped to the requisite level if the articles were about women…
“Jose Mourinho ’44, with just a hint of wrinkles at the corners of his deep hazel eyes’, his ‘sexy salt-n-pepper hair slightly tousled after a long hard day at the Club’ resigning after a glittering three-year reign as Chelsea’s manager. Long-standing differences with the club’s owner, ‘lantern-jawed 41 year old brunette billionaire’ Roman Abramovich, have re-emerged so strongly that they have forced ‘Mourinho, with his model-esque looks and toned physique’, into the drastic step of leaving the club.
The Portuguese ‘hottie’ contacted his captain, ‘fit 26 year old spiky-haired bit of rough’ John Terry, and other senior players at Stamford Bridge last night to indicate that he would be going.”

Richard Murdoch, please take note.

James Fallows on Bush's latest admissions

Here’s James Fallows of the Atlantic discussing Bush on disbanding the Iraqi military:

Think about this. The dissolution of the Iraq military is one of the six most-criticized and most-often-discussed aspects of the Administration’s entire approach to Iraq. (Others: the decision to invade at all; the assessment of WMD; the size of the initial invasion-and-occupation force; the decision not to stop the looting of Baghdad; and the operation of Abu Ghraib.) And the President who has staked the fortunes of his Administration, his party, his place in history, and (come to think of it ) his nation on the success of his Iraq policy cannot remember and even now cannot be bothered to find out how the decision was made.