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If I can permit myself to answer for centerbeth:
Your confusion at her complaint is the same sort disingenuous, market driven drivel that has led us to "Broadsheet". You know as well as we do that your choice of the Rockettes as a subject comes not from their plight - which is shared by so many American women - but from a particular combination of sexiness and oddity - tinged perhaps with a little ironic shadenfreude. The end result is a trivilalisation of womens issues and a growing conviction in your audience that at SALON content is merely a pawn - it's the window dressing that's King. Apparently someone in marketing thinks that's what reader's and particularly women - want.
And don't you dare right me off as prudish, too serious or politically correct - My favorite read on Salon these days is Heather Havrilevsky - I just think this entire misguided adventure into Women's bloging is hopelessly old hat, retrograde and misplaced in a publication that hoped to set itself apart from the usual rubbish. You're already trying to be TV Guide and Cosmo - what's next, Tiger Beat?
