BOINKOLOGY | The Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy Affair: Boinkology’s Take

BY Lux Alptraum
March 13, 2008
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The Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy Affair: Boinkology’s Take

Due to some very good fortune (thanks, Julia!), Boinkology was able to score a front row seat for the now infamous Mark Zuckerberg keynote at SXSW. As numerous press outlets have already reported, the keynote was a disaster: focusing far more on Zuckerberg’s quirks and the future of Facebook than on broader issues relevant to the rest of the world, the keynote was misguided at best and painful at worst — and quickly lost the audience, who ultimately revolted against interviewer Sarah Lacy. We can all agree on that.

What we’re not so sure we agree on, however, are the slams that Lacy has received for being overly sexual (and therefore “unprofessional”). Yes, Lacy was flirtatious, but that’s how women, especially women who work in the media, are trained to act. And let’s face it: if her questions had been good, if the keynote had been a success, no one would be critcizing her for sexing it up. More than likely, scores of geek boys (and girls) would be praising Lacy for having it all: brains, knowledge, and a hot bod to boot.

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Richard Blakeley says :
“…but that’s how women, especially women who work in the media, are trained to act”

That is so true, and I’m glad you said it because if it were just me I’d be thought of as sexist. When you’re doing TV it is very much like that, or public speaking etc. It’s sad but it’s true, you have to find girls for tape that the viewer find attractive enough to want to sleep with… ESPECIALLY in the new digital age where they can actually connect to the girl via blog comments/email/etc.

And more importantly you’ll notice that you’re going to start having “blog hot” types of girls, where once if they weren’t attractive enough for TV they would move over to radio it will now be they move to the internet.

And in closing you’ll notice that super hot girls won’t be featured on the next as much as they are on TV, I don’t think viewers want someone who is completely out of their league that they’re just eye candy.

These are just my thoughts…
March 13th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Being Amber Rhea » &hellip says :
[...] BOINKOLOGY | The Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy Affair: Boinkology’s Take “What we’re not so sure we agree on, however, are the slams that Lacy has received for being overly sexual (and therefore ‘unprofessional’).” Mm-hmm. Unprofessional. It happened again. (For the 3,876,297th time…) (tags: sexuality society assholes women doublestandard media sxsw) [...]
March 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

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