Lovely

I just racked up a new "warning" on TWOP for pointing out that stating that a woman won an episode of Top Chef  "because of her boobs" might not be a critical assessment of her skills.   Hell, I didn't even criticize the poster outright (and god knows I wanted to point out that statements like that are sexist as hell)  I simply said that personally I'd shy away from making such statements because readers could perceive it as sexist even if the poster didn't intend it to be (which, honestly, how is it not sexist?).  I tapdanced around the fact that it's offensively sexist to summarize and dismiss a win in a cooking contest by saying  "She won because of her boobs."  (And that's a quote.)   And I got the warning?  Whatever happened to "stick to the facts"?  Was it a "fact" that she won because she had boobies?  No one can hold up their hands and say "Whoa!  I think it might not be so great to judge a woman by her discretely covered mammary glands that have nothing at all to do with this contest?"

It's TWOP.  

Why do I expect things to make sense?

Lovely

I just racked up a new "warning" on TWOP for pointing out that stating that a woman won an episode of Top Chef  "because of her boobs" might not be a critical assessment of her skills.   Hell, I didn't even criticize the poster outright (and god knows I wanted to point out that statements like that are sexist as hell)  I simply said that personally I'd shy away from making such statements because readers could perceive it as sexist even if the poster didn't intend it to be (which, honestly, how is it not sexist?).  I tapdanced around the fact that it's offensively sexist to summarize and dismiss a win in a cooking contest by saying  "She won because of her boobs."  (And that's a quote.)   And I got the warning?  Whatever happened to "stick to the facts"?  Was it a "fact" that she won because she had boobies?  No one can hold up their hands and say "Whoa!  I think it might not be so great to judge a woman by her discretely covered mammary glands that have nothing at all to do with this contest?"

It's TWOP.  

Why do I expect things to make sense?

Lovely

I just racked up a new "warning" on TWOP for pointing out that stating that a woman won an episode of Top Chef  "because of her boobs" might not be a critical assessment of her skills.   Hell, I didn't even criticize the poster outright (and god knows I wanted to point out that statements like that are sexist as hell)  I simply said that personally I'd shy away from making such statements because readers could perceive it as sexist even if the poster didn't intend it to be (which, honestly, how is it not sexist?).  I tapdanced around the fact that it's offensively sexist to summarize and dismiss a win in a cooking contest by saying  "She won because of her boobs."  (And that's a quote.)   And I got the warning?  Whatever happened to "stick to the facts"?  Was it a "fact" that she won because she had boobies?  No one can hold up their hands and say "Whoa!  I think it might not be so great to judge a woman by her discretely covered mammary glands that have nothing at all to do with this contest?"

It's TWOP.  

Why do I expect things to make sense?