Friday, June 06, 2008
Objectification watch
I don't know about you, but I'm offended on behalf of women everywhere that CBS News would post a slideshow of the "hottest female athletes." Have they no shame?
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Jun 06, 03:55:00 PM:
They need to have no shame, because they have no ratings.
Pretty lame assortment, though. I don't think it would be objectifying these athletes too much for CBS to show them nekkid, do you? Indeed, that would be more "newsworthy", no?
By 
Larry Sheldon, at
Fri Jun 06, 04:16:00 PM:
No I am not offended.
And if they gave their permission, their should be no shame.
I've always been a "if you've got it, flaunt it" kinda guy.
And I do truly believe that nearly everybody has got something to flaunt.
By Georg Felis, at
Fri Jun 06, 04:29:00 PM:
Yes TH I agree with you. Its embarrassing that they only had 38 pictures in the slideshow. There should have been more.
By randian, at
Fri Jun 06, 04:30:00 PM:
For penance they should do a "hottest female programmers" story.
By Escort81, at
Fri Jun 06, 06:37:00 PM:
As a skier, I have always had gondola fantasies (it must have been the scene from that great movie Hot Dog...The Movie), and in that spirit, I will provide links to a series of photos here and also here (although the latter Lange Girl shots are almost certainly of non-skiing models), as well as the obligatory link to the FHM shots of freestyle skier Sarah Burke.
I guess there are two sides to exploitation. I liked the term exploitation better when it was more technical, less judgmental, without all of the negative connotation baggage, the way we used it in undergraduate economics classes -- I think labor exploitation was defined as the difference between Marginal Revenue Product and Wage Rate. Does that sound so bad?
By , at
Sat Jun 07, 09:42:00 AM:
CBS, huh? I thought they had nothing but tinkerbells over there. Maybe, this was to keep Couric happy.
