Hustler of Culture
I can’t tell you how happy this article about poor dressing choices in medicine makes me. Granted, all the pictures are of women’s body parts but the article actually talks about professional dress as if men exist. It also includes a great history of dress in medicine, some quality historical reporting and a point of view. And it’s written by one Dr. Erin Marcus, an internist in Miami, who out journalisms many a professional journalist I’ve read recently.
Bravo.
Sad the Olympics are over? Perhaps a spin through Hot Athletes.org will do you some good (via Justin).
Gaper’s Block wants to hear your sexy stories.
Does anyone else find it strange that the Protcer & Gamble/Gillette merger is being framed as P&G (which makes Ivory Soap, Pringles Chips, Iams Cat Food and Hawaiian Punch among others) getting into the “Man” business? Sure we all know Gillette razors but they also make Oral B toothbrushes and Duracell batteries which, last I looked, were free of gender. If I were to rewrite the lead, it would say something like this…
Proctor & Gamble, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of household goods, recently beset by declining stock price and eroding brand loyalty, has agreed to acquire Gillette, another giant of consumer hygiene products recently beset by declining stock price and eroding brand loyalty.
Isn’t that the business story here? That consumer products is a mature industry, wracked by Wal-Mart, bulk purchasing, generic products and declining brand loyalty and that merger is a natural if panicked response to that (see the major record labels)? Leave gender out of it. It bespeaks a lack of imagination.
Apparently Pud, the lovable weirdo behind FuckedCompany, has been producing Pud Porn for a little while now.
Good for him!