Sexy Has No Place Within these Walls

Suburban alt weekly Impulse reports in this week’s issue about the the problem of dressing too sexy at work.

Yes, that’s right, apparently there are some people — guess which gender! — who are being accused of showing too much money maker at the office. Philadelphia Will Do takes the stance that there is no such thing as looking too sexy at the office, but some professors at local colleges (la de da) think that there is:

“Basically, if it’s something you would wear around the house, on the weekend or on a date, I wouldn’t wear it to the office,” said Cherry Hill image consultant Rae Ann Broussard.

“The less skin you show, the less distracting you are,” she said. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bashing men, but let’s face it, we work with men and we don’t want to send the wrong message.”

I don’t want to sound like I’m bashing women, but obviously only a woman could say something this stupid.

The article isn’t all men-bashing, though. Oh, no, there is a great lead, and I’d like to preserve it below:

Justin Timberlake’s No. 1 pop song claims to be bringing “sexyback,” but that doesn’t mean sexy needs to be brought into the workplace, experts say.

Wait, that’s pretty much men-bashing, too. Screw you, JT, for bringing sexy into the workplace where it doesn’t belong!

Too sexy for work [Impulse]
Archives: Impulse

From Pole To Pole

And away we go:

pwddmac: so, that new teresa masterson thing, i think we should just leave it alone this time. i don’t want to do TM overkill.

anonymous reader: no! we can’t not talk about her pole dancing.
reader: although for some reason, i feel almost bad when we make fun of her now
reader: she does seem reasonably cool
pwddmac: i agree. but it’s just a shtick. i mean, we’re not all that mean, are we?
reader: i guess we’re just more detached. i’ve never thought of her reading this before.
pwddmac: hmm. so do you want to let it go?
reader: uh, no. i’m just going to feel bad about it afterward.
reader: let’s play a game called - can you diagram the following sentence:
reader: “But in this Britney Spears culture, where women feel it necessary to show it all, it seems like we’re missing the good stuff when everyone is showing off all of their stuff.”
pwddmac: okay.

pwddmac: i gave up after that
pwddmac: did you know there’s a pole in big boi’s bedroom?
pwddmac: i saw it on cribs. t.o. also has a room called the “chocolate room” in his atlanta house where you have to take your shoes off to enter.
reader: oh god, she should go interview t.o. that would be amazing.
reader: or at least drew
pwddmac: “Next question!”
pwddmac: “Drew, do you think that, in this Britney Spears culture, where women feel it necessary to show it all, it seems like we’re missing the good stuff when everyone is showing off all of their stuff?”
reader: the next “crazy” thing she does for the “blog” should be a “date” with john ogden, i think
pwddmac: or she can get help him do things to get evicted

Blog: Beyond The Pole [NBC 10]
Archives: Teresa Masterson