WTF GQ (a mini-series) part 2
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Recently (okay not so recently - it’s called procrastination, ever heard of it?) I wrote at length about an article called Treat Me Right, which was featured in GQ magazine, and has had me rankled ever since. You did read my previous post, didn’t you? You did? Great, what was your favorite part?
Ah-ha, I KNEW you didn’t read it! Well, go back and read it. I’ll wait.
Okay? Okay. So, I certainly gave all those possibly female panelists a piece of my mind, since I am 100% positive that they read this blog. I paid very little attention to the men (assuming, of course, that the men were not writing the females parts and setting up their own jokes, as suggested by commenter Michael).
So, in a list of sixty-one “bits of wisdom,” the editors made a whopping thirteen annotations. Way to burn the midnight oil, boys. I would say that a good four out of the thirteen are solidly decent contributions. And when I say “solidly decent,” I mean “kinda mediocre but harmless.” Another four out of the thirteen are complete garbage: unhelpful, unnecessary, annoying. And a whopping five out of thirteen are the comments that are argumentative, childish, misogynstic. Now, I’m not saying that they all had to be gems, and I’m not saying that I had to agree with them all. But I can say unequivocally that I believe that the number of editor comments falling into that last category should have been zero.
So, with no further ado, I bring you The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.