Are Gizmodo readers misogynists or do they just fear what they haven’t experienced?
Rosa Golijan recently posted a seemingly lightweight piece about Lady GaGa’s recent trip to Apple headquarters in Cupertino. She asks:
Why on Earth Did Lady Gaga Visit Apple Headquarters?
Before I make my case for misogyny, I’ll answer the question, as a plausible explanation seems fairly obvious to anyone who follows tech:
Apple will be holding a special event in less than a month to announce new iPod-related products. These events almost always feature a guest entertainer at the end of Steve Jobs’s presentation.
Do the math.
Back to Gizmodo’s core audience, and their shrewd analysis:
otterman was here says
Because she’s a media whore.
Also, she needs the attention so she can validate her existence.
I pity her.
I’m not sure there can be a bigger insult than being pitied by a guy whose achievement for the day is probably going to be a douchey Gizmodo comment.
beehunt says
She needs permission to use Apple’s new liquid metal to create a new mask to more efficiently hide her ugliness
Make no mistake: beehunt would totally fuck Lady Gaga, if he could. Because he can’t, he’ll instead insult her.
Driver 86 says
Steve Jobs, blowjob. Who blew who is still a mystery.
Success = slut. Apparently.
Colgatem says
To have her iPhone removed from whatever orifice she left it in?
Success = kinky slut. Apparently.
showbiz2 says
To give everyone herpes
Success = irresponsible kinky slut. Apparently.
MazdaMania says
If by thinks different you mean “steals bits from Ace of Base, Madonna, underground House/Progressive Base acts and various popular 80s pop-music beats and then sells it in a vulgar package to easily amused teens and people who don’t know any better”, then yes, she is a bitch.
Oooh. So close. This guy seemed content to merely be a know-it-all music snob, but came around by calling her a “bitch” for no real reason, at the last second. Sneaky.
fusionaddict says
She’s endorsing the next generation of Mac-based annoying harpy technology, iCunt.
Several comments in, and fusionaddict finally drops the cunt bomb. Slow. Clap.
FThorn says
She seems like a trampy (and that’s hard to do) Madonna, but an ugly version with gads more hype than talent.
Double tap! Madonna and Lady Gaga are trampy whores. Lady Gaga is just an uglier, trampier whore.
xSix says
Ant-iHermaphrodite
I don’t really get it, either. I guess, because Lady Gaga likes to dress theatrically, she must really be a dude, with a cock? So many of Gizmodo’s readers see “dude” when looking at an attractive woman that I’m left wondering if they’re not just, you know, into dudes.
That should just about do it. I skipped several which were slight variations on the “she’s a whore” theme, and I was just about to copy and paste one which said “she’s there so I can go punch her in the head” (really) when I accidentally closed the tab.
Make no mistake: There are hundreds of comments in the thread. You might think I’ve cherry-picked a few, but almost every single comment is either about her (ugly) looks, her (alleged lack of) talent, or her (overt and slutty) sexuality. I only saw two or three comments which seemed to be serious answers to the question of why she’d be on the Apple campus. I thought maybe I’d see a few responses calling the worst of the comments out for what they were, but…no.
Where’s the moderator? This thread was created by a woman. You’d think she’d have enough self-respect (or respect for her gender) to step in and actually say something but, apparently, no.
It must suck to be the token vagina on a website like Gizmodo.
Perhaps I’ll see something on Jezebel about this.
