Gossiping about girls
A fascinating piece in the latest edition of Maclean’s Magazine and followed up on by 680’s Showbiz Editor Gloria Martin, about the double standard in gossip reporting.
In general, women get skewered while men get a pass.
Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears can’t make a move without photographers and entertainment journalists doing a double page or cover story on them while bad boys like Bobby Brown and Snoop Dogg get only passing mentions.
Think about it. When Angelina Jolie was married to Billy Bob Thornton, she was made out to be insane even though they both acted like fools, wearing vials of each other’s blood and the rest. Thornton is actually afraid of antiques! He won’t stay in a room with them. But SHE is the crazy one?
It’s tempting to go deeper into the psyche of those who run the entertainment media and find out what it is that causes them to concentrate so heavily on misbehaving women and so lightly on their male counterparts. But the bottom line is, these magazine sell and sell well. We get the media we demand! And that includes those trashy magazines lining the racks at the grocery checkouts.