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...with a little pink bow. How Sweet!
If you hear nothing else, hear this: I haven't been a "girl" since I was thirteen. I find the term, when used to describe women of any age, offensive. "Girls Gone Wild", indeed.
You know, I get it. Create a place on Salon for news of particular interest to women. Scatter a few gender POV-specific comments here and there, and voila! Broadsheet! The problem is, the articles you chose to include in this new woman's ghetto are mostly ones that tread awfully close to the edge of Cosmo-land. Hardly the bastion of women-oriented newsgathering. Posting fluff and calling it news is a poor beginning. You have eleven articles in this first edition. Only one would I consider an actual news article - the Rockettes story.
Here's a couple suggestions. First, lose the pink. It's a color that not only doesn't describe most women but grates on the nerves of many of us. Second, separate the gossip from the news. I don't need snarky commentary or "blog-styled" formats. Save the opinion for the editorial pages. And write about real news, not just repackaged middle-of-the-Style-section crap. There's enough real woman-oriented news out there to make this a vibrant, valuable addition to Salon.
We're adults, and we understand economics and politics as well as the men out there. If you don't get that, then you've got no business creating "Broadsheet."
