March 9, 2004
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Third, like many of you, I’m tired of having to scroll down forever to get to the “recent comments” links, so they’ve been moved over to the right-hand column underneath the sidelights. Wait, you figured that out already, you sharp-eyed eagles, you. Right, then. [05:59 PM]
Hmm...
Ms Catch of the Day at ActForLove.org looks like a case of bait-and-switch to me. The use of a young, attractive, leftist woman is surely intended to attract the eyeballs of a target demographic that will inevitably be disappointed to learn that she is looking for "[a] girl who isn't too skinny and isn't too tall and cute as a button."
like many of you, I’m tired of having to scroll down forever to get to the “recent comments” links, so they’ve been moved over to the right-hand column underneath the sidelights.
Yay Patrick! You anticipated my one, minor, complaint before I could even make it.
"Ms Catch of the Day at ActForLove.org looks like a case of bait-and-switch to me. The use of a young, attractive, leftist woman is surely intended to attract the eyeballs of a target demographic that will inevitably be disappointed to learn that she is looking for '[a] girl who isn't too skinny and isn't too tall and cute as a button.'"
Um, since Ms. Catch-of-the-Day's aspirations are spelled out on the ad itself--you don't even have to click through to find out--I'm unclear where you think the "bait and switch" is taking place. Unless you think the default reader of Electrolite is necessarily a male looking for females? A little unexamined heterosexism, perhaps, Mr. Martens? Off with you to the re-education camps!
Ms Catch of the Day at ActForLove.org looks like a case of bait-and-switch to me. The use of a young, attractive, leftist woman is surely intended to attract the eyeballs of a target demographic that will inevitably be disappointed to learn that she is looking for "[a] girl who isn't too skinny and isn't too tall and cute as a button."
What makes you think that the target demographic will find that disappointing?
Ah, well. You know what they say -- if a thing's worth saying, Patrick will say it five minutes before you, and better, too.
Thanks for moving the recent comments list. I'd been meaning to email you about that very issue.
I'd been meaning to think of something to write about. It'll have to wait. Hrumpf.
I just noticed that the picture appearing for "moll_flanders" in the actforlove.org ad today is not the same picture that appeared over that name (and the "Groucho marx is sexy; Karl Marx is sexier" quote) in the same ad yesterday.
...and lo and behold, the text under the picture changed, just an hour or two after I posted the above. Wonder how many others noticed.
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