Wired vs. Women: Too Much Objectification In Tech?

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Is women's greatest contribution to technology and/or geekdom their bodies? No, but sometimes it may be hard to assume otherwise

Comments

[dzurlady]

So it turns out that the main thing to get excited about for the future of medicine is growing new tissue for bigger boobs? Good to know.

[azetburcaptain]

lol ikr? UGH.

[wathsalive]

Yeah :/ I saw this a few weeks ago on the Bad Astronomy blog on the discovery channel website and it was embarrassing reading all the smart ass males and I believe a guy who worked at wired.com in the comments trying to defend it

Here it is comments suck etc etc: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/10/22/look-breasts/

[wathsalive]

*it's discover magazine, not discovery channel w/e

[crispygecko]

FFFUU. A lot of those comments are infuriating.

Sheril Kershinbaum seems awesome, though.

[originally]

WTF at those comments. 'How is it sexualised?' really? They're either extremely ignorant or being willfully obtuse, neither of which is encouraging. Especially the dude from Wired.

[danceprincess20]

Shelby Knox wrote a blog post after the cover came out and some (female) Wired interns posed with the magazine across their chests.
http://shelbyknox.com/2010/10/25/wired-mag-has-interns-show-off-breasts/

The interns who posed in the picture wrote back:
http://shelbyknox.com/2010/10/25/update-women-of-wired-respond/

But then it became about the picture of the women posing with the original picture, not about the cover.

[donnaidh_sidhe]

Sounded like sarcasm to me.

[redikolous]

Yeah the breast cover was pretty much the dealbreaker. I decided not to renew my subscription.