@iplaudius: Well, I'll make no judgments about Marisa's face or body. But when men are short, or bald, or have small penises, women are all too happy to joke about these facts as though men choose to be hairless, short and poorly endowed. More importantly, the attitude is one of laughable fault, as though, had they studied more in high school, they too would have fit the standards of the women discussing them. I'm not suggesting that patriarchy doesn't exist and that we should try not to be douchebags when discussing women. All I'm saying is that, women do it all the time.
@Hey_mikey: Sure there are women who do this. It is no where near as prevalent as the boy's sneers toward pretty much any woman who isn't a supermodel ..and even some of those.
I may have misspoken when saying it ONLY happens when it is about women.
Everyone has opinions but I really believe most women handle the dissemination of those opinions much better than most men.
Either way it is annoying. I hate people who "people watch" in real life just as much as I dislike the people who do so through the Internet.
@Hey_mikey: The point is, on this site, these types of insults are far more frequently hurled at women.
Perhaps it is to be expected when the subject is a woman such as Julia Allison, whose interest and social identity are in large part defined by her appearance and sexuality. Mayer, by contrast, is interesting because of what she is doing with Google.
People rarely go after men of Mayer’s professional stature—or, if not stature, notoriety. I can’t recall a pattern of looks-based insults in, say, the comments on articles on Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Rupert Murdoch, or, for that matter, Luke Russert or George Stephanopoulos. That is the sexist bias: people tend not to make such comments about men, but they frequently make such comments about women like Marisa Mayer.
There is an exception: male subjects typically get criticized for their looks only when they draw attention to their looks or sexuality: e.g., Scott Brown, John Fitzgerald Page, and Paul Janka.
I see the Gawker editors' contest to see who can post the most unflattering photo of Marissa Mayer is still running strong. Did she big-time Denton at a new media conference or something?
@Nick Douglas: Shhh, we've decided to hush up the Mayer mutant army because they're good for pageviews. One of them's bound to physically eat Larry Page one of these days, right?
I'm off to conduct an experiment. Having loaded Google Goggle onto my Droid, I'm going to photograph an IPhone and see if's recognized. Don't blame me should flames start shooting out of the circuitry at Cern.
Can't you airbrush her photos before publication, and maybe add some soft-light filtering along with digital weight loss, the way Glamour magazine does?
He could've soften the blow by saying "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be posting it on the internet in the first place."
Man, are we gonna laugh at this one years from now when google becomes the new evil overlord (or as some say, "microsoft")
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Also, she actually does have feet.
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This is not good. Clothes, maybe. But comments about her face and body?
Also, it seems you do this only or mainly when it’s about a woman. So stop being sexist.
Cheers,
iplaudius
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Regardless it IS true that this really only happens with posts about women.
You know that this is only because everyone making these comments is God's gift to beauty, right?
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And I really should show them my “tits.”
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I may have misspoken when saying it ONLY happens when it is about women.
Everyone has opinions but I really believe most women handle the dissemination of those opinions much better than most men.
Either way it is annoying. I hate people who "people watch" in real life just as much as I dislike the people who do so through the Internet.
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The posts were like crack for sad cubicle farm tech worker-bee guys with chips on their shoulders and nothing cleverer to say than "show us yer tits"
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Perhaps it is to be expected when the subject is a woman such as Julia Allison, whose interest and social identity are in large part defined by her appearance and sexuality. Mayer, by contrast, is interesting because of what she is doing with Google.
People rarely go after men of Mayer’s professional stature—or, if not stature, notoriety. I can’t recall a pattern of looks-based insults in, say, the comments on articles on Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Rupert Murdoch, or, for that matter, Luke Russert or George Stephanopoulos. That is the sexist bias: people tend not to make such comments about men, but they frequently make such comments about women like Marisa Mayer.
There is an exception: male subjects typically get criticized for their looks only when they draw attention to their looks or sexuality: e.g., Scott Brown, John Fitzgerald Page, and Paul Janka.
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That's her leotard look. Classy!
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I would like more Western Europeans to visit the United States. It's so nice to see how they dress, for the most part.
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All I'm asking for my wedding are bagpipes.
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Gotta love that pic - all that's needed is some sinister laugh, ala Ren from Urusei Yatsura. Either that or that sinister laugh of hers...
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Man, are we gonna laugh at this one years from now when google becomes the new evil overlord (or as some say, "microsoft")
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