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So what if Wired Magazine have a gender imbalance over its lifetime. What's the issue here?

Is it more about being offended that wired magazine don't offer equal coverage to women entrepreneurs? Maybe there aren't just many tech entrepreneurs to cover.

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It's one thing to have an imbalance of sheer number, which may well be a reflection of reality.

It's another thing entirely to make 90% of the women you do depict into sexbots. Putting ugly people on the covers doesn't sell magazines, but they could at least make some effort to depict reality.

Men like beautiful sexy women.

Sexbots? Who would think of women as a bunch of automation, unable to think for herself, with no interests of her own, with no agenda of her own as sexy? It is not.

If the picture of a body and not a person, "sexbot" seems an appropriate term. Perhaps the distinction is too subtle for you?

> Who would think of women as a bunch of automation, unable to think for herself, with no interests of her own, with no agenda of her own as sexy? It is not.

I can think of a few people that seem to think that way in the way they talk about women.

  > they could at least make some effort to
  > depict reality.

A cover story titled: "You will most likely die alone, with no accomplishments to your name, and no one will remember you."

But, that'll sell like crazy, dood!

"It's another thing entirely to make 90% of the women you do depict into sexbots"

Could it be just your imagination that turns those women on the covers into sex bots?

It's one thing to say that the magazine has gender parity issues in its coverage, but c'mon - a huge pair of boobs on the cover isn't exactly a step in the right direction.

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