Frida Ghitis blames editors for 'are men stupid' headline

Patrick5555 · 2012-04-25T00:53:36+00:00

... and the backpedaling begins.

That's how feminists do things. First come at you with smiles, then attack attack attack. If you fight back - attack HARDER. Then if they see themselves starting to lose - then it's smiles and shifting the blame.

ThePigman · 2012-04-25T00:59:51+00:00

See, it wasn't the poor woman's fault after all, it was someone else's. How mean and unfair we have all been. How can she ever forgive us? Boo hoo, sob, sob.

Amunium · 2012-04-25T07:54:26+00:00

Who would read that?

Is that an admission that her writing is so terrible that no one would read it if not for provocative, cheap-shot headlines?

ThePigman · 2012-04-25T01:03:16+00:00

As for "who would read that," how about "Power - does it make you stupid?" or "Arrogance and infidelity - unsurprising bedfellows." It's not genius but at least it isn't sexist.

plugButt · 2012-04-25T08:39:32+00:00

Are men stupid? How else can we explain the endless parade of otherwise successful individuals, who by all appearances seem intelligent and competent, and yet risk destroying their careers and their personal lives over the chance to have a sexual escapade?

Seems that she can't even remember what she herself wrote.

2012-04-25T03:42:40+00:00

Can't decide if Fridaghitis is a gum disease, or Free-da-get-us is an inside joke.

After reviewing her body of work, It's really disappointing that someone as intelligent as her would write something as stupid and poorly thought out as her article was. Too bad she didn't have the common sense to keep her bigotry hidden. Its destroyed far more promising people than her though. This has also been a pretty revealing look at the culture within CNN. Of course, men noticed this long ago. The empirical data has been available for years in the form of ratings.

MuFoxxa · 2012-04-25T11:07:13+00:00

Sweet! So it's ok to try to insult and shame half of the population cause it will bring in readers!

Way to go Frida, nice moral code you've got there!

amadeusleander · 2012-04-25T09:43:08+00:00

I thought the same thing after reading her article that Gaffney tweeted; that it was about infidelity as a symptom of arrogance...which really wasn't all that a profound conclusion.

In fact, her writing was a sort of re-tread of basic armchair philosophy that doesn't offer any new information or attempt the critical analysis necessary to show rather than tell you something.

I do believe there was a snippet of actual honesty in a portion of her tweet, the bit about "who would read that." Because this is a poorly done, unmemorable article, it's doubtful it would have gained any readership without ad hominem attacks in the title and scattered throughout the body.

thefran · 2012-04-25T17:57:15+00:00

blames editors for 'are men stupid' headline

This is completely justified. From my own experience and the experience of other writers editors roll with whatever asinine bullshit they come up with for a title, just to get more pageviews.

Although I bet she's a turdnozzle.

hardwarequestions · 2012-04-25T00:13:57+00:00

to be fair, it's entirely possible this is true. often the senior editor determines the headline of a piece while the author is just responsible for content and sources.

Title	Frida Ghitis blames editors for 'are men stupid' headline
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Date	April 25, 2012 12:08 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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