I was organizing my Google home pages. I have many categorized pages, from science and international development, to blogs and anthropology. I decided to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”.
I started the tab, and labeled it women. I inadvertently left their “I feel lucky” box checked. The six sites which showed up under women for my blocks were, Hot Blonds, Beautiful Naked Women, Jumping Elephants (real sex real people), The Best (private sexy personals) and so forth. Most sites were soft core porn. I had to redo it several times to get these relatively innocuous swimsuit photos.
Got to give it to them, an abundance of suggestions for women exist in Google if you leave the box checked. Continuous reloads give a totally new group every time. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be an accomplished scientist, medical doctor, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher, academic, entrepreneur, or even an academic among them. Even if there were, we’d wouldn’t know it. The women are nameless, they are just women.
This irritated me, so I tried it for men. The page for men looks like this.….
Google could cough up only two ideas for “men”. The main entry, the same one that appears over and over if you reload, is a head, or waist to head shot of a man, sometimes shirtless often not. There is only a rare classic “I’m a sexy boy” shot, you know, where the guys jeans are unsnapped, his zipper looks on the way down, and he is gazing at his hinterlands longingly. Otherwise the men are most always fully clothed, and unlike with any one of those sites which appear under “women”, there is a scroll down to a biography telling who the guy is, what he does for work, his claim to fame, if any, and other random information, things that let us know he is human, like his lifelong goals.
The other Google suggestion, as you can see, was a site of random little male head shots from some Flickr-like site..
Go figure.
