Philly.com Comment Of The Day

“tarnished career” is a term made up by the media to sell stories let the man live…..I bet if NY Times said we want you….You’d go and it would “tarnish your career” This proves that a women’s place is in the kitchen… *slaps Christine on the ass* Now go make me my dinner woman!

That’s on Christine Flowers’ Friday column, which was about Brett Favre, so I didn’t read it. Why Flowers is writing about the new Jets quarterback, and what her point is, I do not know. Please don’t tell me.

Another commenter writes: “christine i find you very attractive woman-lonewolf.” Yes, every woman gets harassed on the Internet, you should all know this by now.

Update: For pending additional comment hilarity, I suggest you follow this thread.

Christine M. Flowers: VERY BAD BRETT [Daily News]

Buying Your Way To Happiness

The hell?

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Look, Internet, Photos Of Women

Valentine’s Day is coming up, so magazines do dating/love/sex issues and Time Out New York is no exception. The lead story of their “Singles” issue is by Professional Media Person Julia Allison, who Gawker made fun of a bit and somehow this made her popular. (Also, she’s pretty.)

I didn’t read Julia’s article because it seemed long, had three question marks in a row and had lots of jumps. (Readers hate jumps!) But the rebuttal is by former City Paper editor/sex columnist Ashlea Halpern, who calls herself Ashlea[TM]. (As opposed to Julia[TM].)

The gist of Halpern’s column is Julia’s advice which I didn’t read but I am sure is fabulous only works if you’re pretty like Julia Allison. (Halpern is, of course, another attractive person.) There’s a poll to pick who you agree with more; I’ll give the nod to Halpern, who kept her article at a slim couple of paragraphs or at least made it so I couldn’t find the jump buttons. (Plus, I read it!) And, hey, she’s mopping up.

Update: Oh, there’s a behind the scenes phootshoot video: “View all the photos that didn’t quite make the cut, plus a video that tells you all you need to know about the Allison mystique.” My mystique remains mysterious and you won’t get to see that ’til my photoshoot next week.

Hey, Bonnie’s Back!

Okay, so I should probably write about this. So remember Bonnie & Clyde? No, not the real Bonnie & Clyde, the “Bonnie and Clyde of Identity Fraud,” the duo that captivated the Philadelphia area during the end of last year?

By duo, of course, I mean Jocelyn Kirsch’s breasts, since she was really the only one anybody cared to read about. (The dude’s name was Eddie or something.) Anyway, Jocelyn Kirsch is back in a new Daily News article by apparent Jocelyn Kirsch beat reporter Regina Medina; turns out she had a former boyfriend who thought he loved her, but it turns out she lied to him and treated him poorly. And she cheated on him! Jocelyn Kirsch is now every girl in America. (No offense, fairer sex.) Did she break up with him via email, too?

The ex-boyfriend, Jayson Verdibello, also wrote a pair of songs for her; I was kind of hoping we’d get MP3 files, but instead all we get are lyrics like “I can’t deny the curves of your body/ Or all the words you leave inside my lips/ How can I say all the words I want to/ When you paint the world in different hues of you?”

But back to the story, where hilarity abounds.

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Magazine Ranks Cities To Get Magazine Into News

Some stupid magazine did a stupid city ranking in order to get itself in the news. This time, the magazine was Self, a magazine for women I guess, and it asked women if they were happy and healthy or something.

Apparently, Philadelphia women were neither happy, healthy nor in shape, and the magazine ranked Philly 87th out of 100 cities. Philly also won “worse environment” in the pointless poll.

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N.J. Women Join Legislature, Wait In Line To Piss

A bunch of women were voted into office last Tuesday in New Jersey, with a record 34 slated to come into the legislature come January. Somehow, this led to a long bathroom line at Thursday’s legislative session. (N.J. doesn’t inaugurate its assemblywomen right away; the session included old and new members.)

Anyway: Everybody went to the bathroom at the same time — were they watching a basketball game or something? — and yet they were excited to be in line, though seven assemblywomen did wet their pants. According to the Associated Press, the new female members will apparently care more about women’s issues than their male colleagues. They will also get the chance to prove they can govern just as poorly as men do.

Study: Stupid Studies Make For Easy Blog Posts

Really? In my case it’s always “because I paid her to.” (Ba-ZING!)

For more commentary than I could ever even attempt to do, we must of course turn to the women.

Study Finds Attraction Is Main Reason For Sex
Why We Have Sex, Reasons 238-252 [Jezebel]

Breaking: Men Are Sex-Obsessed Even When Looking At Other Men

There’s an article on Online Journalism Review about a study done by Jakob Nielsen and Tara Pernice Coyne in 2005. The study focuses on usability and readability of websites.

But the researchers also did a study focusing on where people, ah, focus when they look at photos, and here’s the male/female breakdown (via Kottke):

Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed. Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.

I love to see where men focused on a photo of a woman, but I guess that’s just be a waste of money. I think we know.

Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design [Online Journalism Review]
Men look at crotches [Kottke.org]

Katie Couric Scores 45 To Lead Women To Victory

pwddmac: hey, shouldn’t you be out celebrating?

anonymous reader: celebrating?
pwddmac: the metro front page said “LANDMARK BROADCAST SEEN AS A VICTORY FOR WOMEN” re: katie couric
pwddmac: i figured you’d be so happy with your victory you would have taken off work to celebrate.
reader: katie couric is a victory?
pwddmac: apparently
reader: wow, a milf with fabulous legs is doing the nightly news. what a coup.
reader: i had no idea. i’m a bad feminist.
pwddmac: if it’s a victory for women, does that mean we men lost?
pwddmac: shit!
pwddmac: oh well, i’m a philadelphia sports fan, i’m used to it.
reader: suckers. have fun with charlie gibson, losers!
pwddmac: ha ha, elizabeth vargas got fired because she was pregnant
pwddmac: did you watch it? it was pretty bad, although i do like katie couric.
pwddmac: she didn’t even have a signoff!
pwddmac: and they then showed a clip of famous signoffs, including ron burgundy
pwddmac: then they showed her legs
pwddmac: (a victory for men!)
reader: no, i didn’t watch it
reader: i’m only watching the today show now that katie couric is off of it, actually.
reader: her interviews make me cringe.
pwddmac: really? even when she made fun of tom cruise for not knowing what the word “glib” meant?
reader: that was probably the only time i’ve liked her
pwddmac: hm. so i guess last night’s broadcast wasn’t a victory for you, then.
reader: ha, not so much.
pwddmac: looks like we men win again!
reader: ha. how much of a victory can it be for women when the only reason she got the job is that she’s (relatively) attractive?!
pwddmac: hey, it’s not just the headline. vice president of philadelphia’s beholder productions, emelia andrews, said “we’re all just ecstatic”
pwddmac: looks like you lose your woman journalist license!
reader: as in “beauty is in the eye of the beholder????”
reader: yeah, i’m about to turn in my feminism card, too, if this is a “victory”
pwddmac: okay, back to ogling soledad o’brien

Couric Makes Changes on ‘CBS News’ Debut [AP/Metro]

Walk Up To Your Boss Today, Shove This Story In His Face, And Say…

Wait. It gets better. An ad on the same page:

Man, if there had been a puppy on that page I never would have been able to leave.

Court tosses ‘Friends’ lawsuit [AP/CNN.com]