It’s no secret that K&K gets its fair share of criticism. We can be a little smug at times, we once dressed as JonBenet Ramsey for Halloween and we may have been off-base when we claimed Bootsauce’s 1993 album Sleeping Bootie was the best album of our lifetime. But we take umbrage when people in the Twittersphere call us out for hypocrisy when we feel it’s unwarranted. It’s even more offensive than the term “Twittersphere.”
So when a self-proclaimed “real reporter” took the Courier to task for last week’s feature story on the new Vancouver team in the Lingerie Football League by tweeting “Why did @VanCourierNews mock Post Media fascination with lingerie football, then run multi-page feature on it? Brain-eating zombies, maybe?” we took note, and not just because of the rhetorical question mentioning zombies. Well, maybe a little.
We responded with another rhetorical question, namely, didn’t she see a difference between what K&K originally mocked (media websites posting photo galleries for the sole purpose of showing T&A to attract web hits) and Courier staff writer Megan Stewart writing about her experience trying out for the league, why women would want to play in the league despite its objectionable and objectifying attire and the various criticisms mounted against the organization.
Stewart then joined the Twitter fray and tweeted: “Learning about the athletes is more meaningful than merely ogling their goodies.”
At this point, we thought our critic would have succumbed to K&K and Stewart’s Malachi Crunch (that’s a Happy Days reference, by the way), but not so. She replied, astonishingly, “Didn’t read the article but the photos did kind of make it look like a visit to the Dr. for an annual physical.”
So there you go. She’s not a fan of the Lingerie Football League’s dress code. And neither is Stewart and many of the athletes who want to play competitive football—a point that is discussed at length in the article. Except of course, our critic didn’t know that because she didn’t bother to read the article before she started tweeting about her aversion to it. Nice one.
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